Sr. Cost Accountant

About Our Client

Our client is a grower-owned cooperative and one of the most trusted names in food manufacturing, known for its strong heritage, commitment to quality, and collaborative culture. With multiple facilities across Pennsylvania, they produce top-quality brands and private-label products with pride and precision. They maintain a tight-knit, servant-leadership-driven culture that values initiative, teamwork, and continuous improvement. If you’re a proven accounting leader who thrives on collaboration and transformation, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact.

Why Join Our Client?

• Opportunity to lead the transition toward modern cost accounting practices.
• Stable, employee-owned cooperative with strong community roots.
• Collaborative and inclusive culture that values leadership and initiative.
• Supportive executive leadership that mentors and empowers its teams.

If you’re an experienced food manufacturing or CPG Cost Accountant with a passion for leading change and continuous improvement, we’d love to hear from you. This is an ideal time to join our client’s accounting team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of their accounting and finance practices.

The Opportunity

The Sr. Cost Accountant is responsible for managing and analyzing manufacturing costs for a fruit processing operation, including raw fruit procurement, processing, packaging, storage, and distribution. This person will bring modern cost accounting principles and implement them on this team.

What You’ll Do (Day to Day)

• Own standard costing for raw materials, labor, overhead, packaging, and co-products
• Perform monthly cost rollups and detailed variance analysis (yield, labor, overhead, PPV)
• Analyze yields, shrink, spoilage, waste, and by-product credits
• Partner with plant and operations leaders to explain cost drivers
• Support pricing, margin, and profitability analysis by product and customer
• Review daily and monthly production costs vs. budget
• Support seasonal production planning and harvest-related forecasting
• Provide financial analysis for capital projects and process improvements
• Maintain cost data and reporting within the ERP system
• Support month-end close, inventory accounting, audits, and internal controls

Why This Role

• Stable, grower-owned cooperative with long-term focus
• High visibility partnership with operations leadership
• Opportunity to influence cost control, efficiency, and profitability
• Hands-on role with real impact on manufacturing performance

If you enjoy being close to the business and using cost data to drive smarter decisions, this is a strong next step in your career.

Requirements

What You Bring to the Table

• Strong manufacturing cost accounting and variance analysis utilizing modern practices
• Deep understanding of standard costing and inventory valuation
• Experience in CPG, process manufacturing or inventory-intensive environments
• Ability to translate financial data for operations and plant leaders
• Advanced Excel and manual reporting/BI skills
• ERP experience required

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 5–7+ years of cost accounting experience in manufacturing utilizing modern practices
• CPG or Food Manufacturing industry highly preferred
• Experience supporting plant operations and cross-functional teams
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• CPA or CMA a plus (not required)
• Prior experience overseeing a team (preferred, not required)
• Prior production level manufacturing experience (preferred, not required)
• Physical requirement: Ability to walk the plants regularly and go up and down stairs

Benefits

Benefits

Our client offers excellent benefits including, but not limited to:

• Paid holidays
• Paid vacation
• Sick time
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401k with matching