Sr. Cost Accountant - Global

FIJI Water Company; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Thriving Wellness Community

Career Advancement Opportunities

Focused Learning and Development

Empowering Mentorship Program

Continuous Improvement Training

Building a Healthy Society

Giving Back to the Community

Job summary

The Wonderful Company is seeking a Senior Cost Accountant to manage global cost accounting and inventory-related activities. Based in West Los Angeles, this role anchors inventory valuation, landed cost, COGS, and related controls across entities and logistics partners.

You will collaborate with FP&A, procurement, and supply chain to deliver accurate cost reporting, close the books, and support process improvements. A CPA/CMA and ERP experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Five years of progressive cost-accounting experience in inventory-intensive environments.
• CPA or CMA designation preferred.
• Experience with intercompany inventory flows, landed cost, and cross-entity reconciliations.
• Strong knowledge of inventory valuation, COGS, gross margin, and financial close.

Responsibilities

• Lead inventory valuation, landed cost, COGS, and related controls across global entities.
• Reconcile inventory activity to the general ledger and investigate variances.
• Prepare journal entries, accruals, and reclasses for events and intercompany costs.
• Support ERP close processes, audit readiness, and process improvements.
• Provide concise reporting on cost, inventory, freight, COGS, and margins to leadership.

Skills

Cost accounting

Financial analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance

CPA or CMA preferred

Tools

Oracle

SAP

NetSuite

Excel

Job description

The Wonderful Company is committed to providing high-quality, healthy, and iconic brands, including FIJI Water, POM Wonderful, Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Halos and helping improve the lives of the people who live and work in the places where we operate. Ranked No. 1 on the 2025 PEOPLE® Companies That Care list and one of Fortune® magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” in the U.S., The Wonderful Company is continually recognized for its dedication to the well-being of its workforce, their communities, and the planet.

Since 1996, FIJI Water has embodied what it means to be Earth's Finest Water®. Sourced from the islands of Fiji, FIJI Water is the No. 1 premium imported bottled water brand in the United States, and America’s Favorite Bottled Water Brand. FIJI Water is soldin more than 80 countriesworldwide, known for its iconic square bottle, unique mineral profile, and soft smooth taste. Sourced from a natural artesian aquifer in the islands of Fiji, the difference is the source – FIJI Water gathers natural electrolytes and minerals and maintains a perfectly balanced pH.

FIJI Water is committed to doing business responsibly and seeking opportunities to make a difference. That commitment extends to the FIJI Water Foundation – one of the largest philanthropic organizations in Fiji – which focuses its efforts and investments on education, clean water access, environmental sustainability, health and wellness, emergency relief, and community development.

This role is responsible for global cost accounting and inventory-related activities outside of manufactured cost. This role owns inventory valuation, landed cost, freight, quality-related costs, intercompany transactions, cycle count accounting, close, reporting, and related controls across commercial entities, logistics partners, and distribution flows. The role helps ensure the accuracy and integrity of product costs, cost of goods sold, gross margin, and inventory results, while providing visibility into cost drivers and supporting effective financial controls and decision-making.

• Supports the valuation of global inventory, landed cost, cost of goods sold, cycle count activity, quality costs, intercompany activity, and related controls.
• Partner with logistics, procurement, FP&A, inventory control, and quality teams to connect inventory movement, cycle count activity, quality costs, and selling activity to accurate financial results.
• Support close execution, issue resolution, audit readiness, and process improvement while escalating material risks, cost changes, or margin impacts to the Director.

This position will be based at our West Los Angeles, CA office. We work a hybrid schedule with anin-office requirement Monday-Wednesday and the option to work remotely on Thursday and Friday.

Job Description

Standard Cost Management

• Maintain and support selling entity standard cost processes, including item costing, ocean freight, local freight, intercompany markups, drayage, and tariffs.
• Refresh standard cost assumptions periodically and review monthly standard cost comparisons for consistency, missing costs, and discrepancies across global inventory locations.
• Maintain cost support, approvals, effective dates, and reconciliations consistent with reporting and control expectations.

Inventory Accounting and Valuation

• Reconcile inventory valuation for finished goods, in-transit inventory, third-party warehouse inventory, and related selling entity inventory categories.
• Reconcile selling entity inventory activity to the general ledger, investigate receipt, shipment, transfer, cycle count, and costing variances, and recommend timely corrective entries.
• Assist with tariffs in inventory, intercompany markup eliminations, reserve calculations, third-party warehouse cycle counts, physical inventories, and quality-related adjustments.
• Compile ad-hoc analysis as needed by accounting leadership.
• Lead the Oracle OPM inventory close process, including preliminary reviews before final closure.
• Analyze and prepare journal entries, accruals, and reclasses for special events and marketing products, intercompany purchase price versus standard cost variances, and selling entity costs.
• Calculate ending inventory revaluations, prepare entries, and review with the Director before posting.
• Support the consolidated inventory view and intercompany elimination entries in FCCS.
• Calculate management reporting product Cost of Sales based on customer shipments, standard costing, ocean freight, and manufacturing cost variances held in inventory.
• Provide concise reporting and explanations to the Director, FP&A, logistics, quality, and business leaders on cost, inventory, freight, COGS, quality cost, and margin results.

Process Improvement and Cross-Functional Partnership

• Support the Director in strengthening cost accounting processes, close routines, reporting templates, reconciliations, and control documentation.
• Help standardize recurring analyses and reporting definitions to improve consistency, scalability, and user understanding.
• Identify reporting efficiencies and process improvements to increase accuracy, transparency, and efficiency.
• Communicate clearly with finance and non-finance partners, manage priorities independently, and escalating significant risks, delays, or unresolved issues.
• Support FP&A with budget, outlook, and ad-hoc request preparation.

Master Data, Systems, and Data Integrity

• Review ERP data that affects selling entity costing and inventory valuation, including item attributes, inventory locations, transfer pricing, freight terms, receipt and shipment activity, and transaction coding.
• Support exception reporting, testing, data cleanup, and system improvements related to costing, inventory accounting, landed cost, intercompany activity, and financial reporting.
• Build repeatable Excel and reporting analyses that improve accuracy, transparency, and efficiency.

Controls, Compliance, and Audit Support

• Perform work in accordance with U.S. GAAP, internal policies, close procedures, and cost accounting control requirements.
• Maintain documentation, reconciliations, calculation support, approvals, and evidence needed for management review and audit support.
• Identify process or control gaps and support practical remediation under the direction of accounting leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Five years of progressive cost-accounting experience, preferably in an inventory-intensive, distribution, logistics, or multi-entity environment.
• CPA or CMA designation preferred.
• Experience in a multi-entity or multinational organization, including exposure to intercompany inventory flows, inventory in transit, transfer pricing concepts, and cross-entity reconciliations.
• Strong working knowledge of inventory valuation, landed cost, freight accruals, cycle count adjustments, quality cost analysis, COGS, gross margin, account reconciliations, and financial close processes.
• Experience using an ERP system such as Oracle, SAP, NetSuite, or a comparable platform, including the ability to trace transactions from operational activity through financial reporting.
• Experience partnering with FP&A, commercial finance, supply chain, procurement, logistics, warehouse, quality, and customer-facing business teams.
• Experience supporting ERP implementations, cost-module enhancements, reporting automation, finance transformation initiatives, or improvements to cost-accounting processes and controls.
• Advanced Excel capability, including organizing and reconciling large datasets, building repeatable analyses, and applying appropriate checks for completeness and accuracy.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to work independently in a developing or process-light environment.
• Demonstrated ownership and accountability, business partnership, continuous improvement, adaptability, and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.

Pay Range: $95,000-$120,000 and may include a discretionary bonus. Final compensation will be dependent upon skills & experience.

Additional Information

• Thriving Wellness Community: Access to top-notch medical coverage comprehensive vision and dental plans, and a 401k with match eligibility to secure your financial future and including:
  • 24/7 online physician consultations
  • virtual mental health resources
  • life coaching
  • engaging employee community groups
  • cash rewards for healthy habits and fitness reimbursements
  • library of on-demand fitness videos
• Career Advancement Opportunities: Unlock your potential with clear paths for career progression and internal mobility across our diverse family of brands and business units.
• Focused Learning and Development: Grow as a leader with our dedicated Learning and Organizational Development department, offering extensive resources like People Manager and leadership training, webinars, and eLearning courses.
• Empowering Mentorship Program: Connect with colleagues through our company-wide mentorship program to share goals, overcome challenges, and drive your career forward.
• Continuous Improvement Training: Participate in training that empowers all employees to learn and implement concepts that drive significant, positive change in the workplace.
• Building a Healthy Society:To date, our co-Founders Lynda and Stewart Resnick, through their foundations and The Wonderful Company, have invested more than $2.5 billion in education, health and wellness, community development, and sustainability initiatives across California’s Central Valley, Fiji, and the world. In 2025, Wonderful ranked as #1 in PEOPLE’s “100 Companies That Care” list and was named one of Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. To learn more about our corporate social responsibility efforts, visit csr.wonderful.com .
• Giving Back to the Community: Make a difference with Wonderful Giving , allowing you to allocate company-provided funds to up to three charities of your choice, and join Wonderful Neighbor to contribute to group service projects within our local communities.

FIJI®Water is a natural artesian water bottled at the source in VitiLevu(Fiji Islands). With its iconic square bottle, soft mouthfeel,andmore than double the electrolytesofthe other two top premium bottled water brands, FIJI Water is the No. 1 premium imported bottled water in the United States. FIJI Water has a perfectly balanced 7.7pH. FIJI Water is available in a variety of sizes, including330mL,500mL, 700mL,700mL Sports Cap, 1L, and 1.5L.

As part of its longstanding commitment to sustainability,nearly 70%of FIJI Water’s global bottle volume is in 100% recycled plastic (rPET),includingitsbest-selling500mL and330mL bottles.Since 2007, the FIJI Water Foundation has been committed to supporting environmental conservation and strengthening local communities, investing more than USD $20.5 million in community development, access to safe water, education, health & wellness, and environmental sustainability.

The Wonderful Company is an Equality Opportunity Employer that provides opportunities for advancement.We are committed to creating a diverse workforce that embodies a deep culture of acceptance, equity, and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories.