Sr. Cost Accountant - Global

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.

Financial Close & Reporting

• 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 escalate 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.