Enterprise Cost Accountant (Mid-level Leader)

City Brewing Co•Latrobe, PA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Cost Accountant is responsible for standardizing and overseeing cost accounting practices — Bills of Materials, production Routings, and Cost Structures — across all four City Brewing locations. This role ensures costing methodology is applied consistently company-wide, enabling leadership to rely on accurate, comparable SKU-level cost and margin data across the network. The position partners with plant-level Cost Analysts, operations, procurement, and commercial leadership to maintain data integrity and support enterprise decisions on pricing, capital investment, and portfolio strategy.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field required
5+ years of cost accounting or manufacturing finance experience, including exposure to multi-site or enterprise-level cost responsibility
Demonstrated experience building, standardizing, or auditing BOMs, routings, and standard costing methodology within an ERP/MRP system, ideally across multiple facilities
Strong understanding of standard costing, variance analysis, and overhead absorption methodologies
Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, modeling)
Willingness to spend time on the production floor at multiple locations to validate that data reflects operational reality
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate cost details into actionable insight for non-finance stakeholders and to drive consistent practices across site teams
Ability to travel 10% domestically during the year

Nice To Haves

Experience within brewery, beverage, food & beverage, or CPG manufacturing strongly preferred
Familiarity with industrial brewing process and terminology, preferred
experience with BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau, preferred

Responsibilities

Establish and maintain standardized BOM, routing, and costing structures applied consistently across all locations
Own the enterprise standard costing methodology (materials, labor, and overhead absorption) and lead the annual standard cost-setting process company-wide
Conduct periodic cross-site audits of BOMs, routings, and cost data to identify inconsistencies and drive corrective action
Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert and system owner for costing modules within the ERP/MRP platform
Develop and enforce costing policies and internal controls supporting audit readiness and inventory valuation integrity
Consolidate SKU-level and site-level cost and margin data into a unified enterprise view for leadership
Analyze cross-site cost variances — labor rates, overhead absorption, yield, freight — to identify best practices and improvement opportunities
Build and maintain enterprise dashboards and standard reporting on cost trends and margin by SKU, site, package type, and brand family
Support corporate budgeting, forecasting, physical inventory counts, and audit requests requiring consolidated cost data
Partner with plant management, operations, procurement, and commercial leadership across all locations to ensure costing reflects operational reality
Support cost analysis for new product development, capital projects, new site onboarding, and co-packing or contract arrangements
Partner with the Corporate Controller and Finance leadership on internal controls related to inventory valuation and cost accounting