Senior Cost Accountant

MBC Companies Lebanon LLC • North Lebanon Township, PA

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About The Position

The Senior Cost Accountant provides dedicated cost-accounting and manufacturing-finance support to strengthen standard costing, inventory valuation, operational analysis, and month-end close execution. The role reduces the Controller’s direct transactional and analytical workload while improving the accuracy, timeliness, and usefulness of manufacturing financial information.

This hands-on business partner works with Operations, Supply Chain, Production, and Finance. The position maintains reliable product costs, explains manufacturing performance, improves inventory controls, supports NetSuite processes, and turns operational data into financial insight for management decisions.

Responsibilities include product costing, inventory accounting, manufacturing variance analysis, financial close support, and reporting across assigned operations. The Senior Cost Accountant maintains cost-accounting processes, investigates variances, reconciles inventory and manufacturing accounts, and provides timely ad hoc financial and operational analysis. The role also supports forecasts, budgets, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Management, or a related field.
• Five or more years of progressive accounting or finance experience, including at least three years in manufacturing cost accounting.
• Demonstrated knowledge of standard costing, inventory accounting, variance analysis, work orders, bills of material, and manufacturing overhead.
• Experience preparing journal entries, reconciliations, close schedules, and management analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Experience working with an integrated ERP system such as NetSuite, SAP, or Microsoft AX.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, including the ability to explain financial results to operational leaders.

Nice To Haves

• NetSuite manufacturing and financial-management experience.
• Experience in food manufacturing, multi-site manufacturing, or a contract-manufacturing environment.
• Experience with cost rollups, inventory revaluation, routings, work centers, landed cost, and manufacturing reporting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain standard costs for raw materials, packaging, direct labor, overhead, routings, and bills of material.
• Coordinate and support planned cost updates, cost rollups, inventory revaluations, and annual standard-cost activities.
• Prepare cost estimates for new products, customer opportunities, tolling arrangements, and changes in manufacturing assumptions.
• Review work-order results and analyze purchase price, material usage, yield, labor efficiency, overhead, and production variances.
• Validate that costs reflect approved operational assumptions, including line speed, crew size, labor burden, run configuration, and packaging requirements.
• Analyze inventory aging, excess and obsolete inventory, negative inventory, location-level balances, and unusual adjustments.
• Partner with Operations on cycle counts, physical inventories, inventory adjustments, and root-cause corrective actions.
• Support accurate accounting for raw materials, work in process, finished goods, freight, and landed cost.
• Prepare and post recurring and nonrecurring journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and supporting schedules.
• Complete assigned close responsibilities in accordance with the monthly close calendar and promptly communicate risks or delays.
• Prepare and distribute daily, weekly, and monthly reporting on manufacturing performance, including production volume, labor, yield, inventory, variances, and other key plant metrics.
• Explain manufacturing and inventory variances to the Controller and operating leadership.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, audit requests, and balance-sheet review.
• Develop dashboards, saved searches, and reports to improve visibility into cost, inventory, throughput, and plant performance.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to identify cost-reduction opportunities and evaluate operational tradeoffs.
• Support NetSuite process design, testing, training, and data-quality improvements related to standard costing, inventory, work orders, routings, and reporting.
• Document repeatable procedures and strengthen internal controls without creating unnecessary administrative burden.
• Perform other finance and accounting duties as assigned by the Controller.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior