Senior Cost Analyst, Manufacturing Finance

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd; Delta (CO); On-site; USD 80,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

MegaFood is seeking a Senior Cost Analyst to own costing, inventory valuation, and cost-of-goods analysis across the end-to-end supply chain. You will partner with Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, and Commercial teams to drive cost transparency and profitable, compliant growth in vitamins and supplements.

The role emphasizes cost-analysis fundamentals, translating data into actionable actions, and supporting both internal production and contract manufacturing processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field.
• 7-9 years progressive accounting and finance experience.
• 1-3 years cost accounting experience within a manufacturing environment.
• 1-3 years experience supporting supply chain, operations, or manufacturing finance functions.
• Experience in Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements, CPG, Food & Beverage, Nutraceuticals, or Pharmaceutical manufacturing preferred.
• CPA, CMA, or MBA.
• Strong understanding of cost accounting principles, inventory accounting, and U.S. GAAP.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including PivotTables, Power Query, lookups, and financial modeling.
• Experience with ERP systems such as Hyperion, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and validate standard costs, including bills of material, formulas, routings, labor, overhead, freight, duties, and other landed-cost elements.
• Lead the annual costing and update costs for product, sourcing, packaging, site, and productivity changes.
• Serve as a finance business partner to Operations; analyze purchase price, usage, yield, labor, overhead, mix, volume, and manufacturing variances, translate findings into action, and drive performance improvements with operational leaders.
• Support the monthly inventory and cost-of-goods-sold close, including variance and reserve analyses, reconciliations, management reporting, and supporting schedules or journal entries with Accounting.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement on supplier, commodity, minimum-order, freight, tariff, duty, and make-versus-buy analyses.
• Support product development and commercialization through cost estimates, target-cost and margin analysis, and post-launch validation.
• Transform Supply Chain reporting by improving data quality, standardizing KPIs, automating recurring reports, and building actionable dashboards for cost, yield, scrap, inventory, forecast accuracy, service, and productivity.
• Strengthen inventory and costing processes and controls with Accounting, Operations, and Supply Chain, including cycle counts, physical inventories, master data, cost changes, and adjustments.
• Support audits through clear schedules, costing methodology explanations, and documentation of assumptions and controls.
• Support S&OP with financial analysis of demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and scenarios; highlight risks and opportunities and align operational plans with financial expectations.

Skills

Cost accounting

Inventory accounting

U.S. GAAP

Analytical ability

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field

CPA, CMA, or MBA

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PivotTables

Power Query

Hyperion

SAP

Oracle

Microsoft Dynamics

NetSuite

Job description

MegaFood is seeking a Senior Cost Analyst to own costing, inventory valuation, and cost-of-goods analysis across the end-to-end supply chain. You will partner with Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, and Commercial teams to drive cost transparency and profitable, compliant growth in vitamins and supplements.

The role emphasizes cost-analysis fundamentals, translating data into actionable actions, and supporting both internal production and contract manufacturing processes.