Cost Accounting Manager

Salary: 131K - 146K

Location - Vista, CA

POSITION SUMMARY

The Cost Accounting Manager is an experienced cost accounting leader responsible for building and leading the
cost accounting function within Operations Finance, including standard costing, inventory valuation,
manufacturing variance analysis, multi-plant inventory reconciliation, and margin reporting in SAP S/4HANA. This
role partners closely with Manufacturing, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Warehouse teams across multiple
manufacturing plants to ensure product costs are accurately captured and reported, and plays a key role in
strengthening cost accounting processes and controls as the Operations Finance function scales.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable
accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable
qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Function Statements

Standard Costing and Inventory Valuation

• Maintain and update standard costs for raw materials, packaging, and finished goods in SAP S/4HANA,
  ensuring costs reflect current bills of materials (BOMs) and routings across all manufacturing plants.
• Oversee annual and periodic standard cost rolls in SAP S/4HANA, including labor and overhead rate
  development.
• Ensure inventory is properly valued in SAP S/4HANA and reconciled to the general ledger across all
  manufacturing plants and distribution locations, including raw materials, WIP, and finished goods.
• Review and approve journal entries related to inventory, cost of goods sold, and manufacturing overhead
  absorption.

Variance Analysis and Reporting

• Analyze and report monthly manufacturing variances — purchase price variance (PPV), material
  usage/yield variance, labor efficiency variance, and overhead absorption variance — by plant and product
  line.
• Partner with plant and manufacturing leadership to identify root causes of variances and drive corrective
  action plans.
• Stand up and own the slow-moving and obsolete (SLOB) inventory reserve process, including monitoring scrap and obsolescence, ensuring reserve calculations are timely and well-supported, and driving timely write-off of inventory no longer usable through the Material Review Board (MRB) process.