Senior Cost Analyst - Manufacturing Finance Insights

MegaFood; North Carolina; On-site; USD 80,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

MegaFood, a Certified B Corporation and 1% for the Planet member, seeks a Senior Cost Analyst to own costing, inventory valuation, and variance analysis across the end-to-end supply chain for vitamins and supplements.

The ideal candidate combines strong cost-analysis with manufacturing-finance fundamentals and the ability to translate data into practical actions. Onsite work in Londonderry, NH every Tuesday and Wednesday.

Qualifications

• 7-9 years of progressive accounting and finance experience.
• 3-5 years cost accounting experience in manufacturing.
• Experience supporting supply chain, operations, or manufacturing finance functions.
• Experience in Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements, CPG, or Food & Beverage manufacturing preferred.
• CPA, CMA, or MBA.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and validate standard costs, including BOMs, 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 price, usage, yield, labor, overhead, mix, and variances, and drive improvements.
• Support monthly inventory and cost-of-goods-sold close, variance and reserve analyses, reconciliations, management reporting.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement on supplier, commodity, minimum-order, freight, tariff, 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 reports, and building dashboards.
• Strengthen costing controls with Accounting, Operations, and Supply Chain, including cycle counts and cost changes.
• Assist audits with schedules, costing methodologies, and documentation of assumptions and controls.
• Support S&OP with financial analysis of demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and scenarios.

Skills

Cost accounting

GAAP knowledge

Excel advanced

ERP systems

Financial modeling

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

CPA

CMA

MBA

Tools

Hyperion

SAP

Oracle

Microsoft Dynamics

NetSuite

Job description

MegaFood, a Certified B Corporation and 1% for the Planet member, seeks a Senior Cost Analyst to own costing, inventory valuation, and variance analysis across the end-to-end supply chain for vitamins and supplements.

The ideal candidate combines strong cost-analysis with manufacturing-finance fundamentals and the ability to translate data into practical actions. Onsite work in Londonderry, NH every Tuesday and Wednesday.