Senior Cost Analyst

Mega Food, a Certified B Corporation and 1% for the Planet member, leverages 50+ years of scientific experience to thoughtfully craft quality supplements made with real food & nutrients that your body knows how to absorb. Since our founding in 1973, Mega Food has been committed to providing people safe, high quality supplements and takes food safety and quality seriously.

Mega Food products are tested for 150+ pesticides are NSF GMP certified and are made without the top 9 food allergens (milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, wheat, fish, shellfish, and sesame.) Mega Food is also Certified Plastic Neutral through its partnership with re Purpose Global and has enabled recovery of over 740,000 pounds of nature-bound plastic since it became certified in 2023.

Learn more at  or follow @megafood on Instagram, @realmegafood on Tik Tok and @Mega Food on Linked In.This role is not available for any form of immigration sponsorship or support, including completion of the Form I-983 training plan required for STEM OPT.Position Summary The Senior Cost Analyst is responsible for accurate product costing, inventory valuation, manufacturing variance analysis, and financial insights across the end-to-end supply chain.

This role partners closely with Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, and Commercial teams to improve cost transparency and support profitable, compliant growth in the vitamin, mineral, and supplement industry. The successful candidate combines strong cost-analysis and manufacturing-finance fundamentals with operational curiosity and the ability to translate complex data into practical actions. The role supports products manufactured internally and through contract manufacturers.

Key Responsibilities Maintain and validate standard costs, including bills of material, formulas, routings, labor, overhead, freight, duties, and other landed-cost elements. Lead the annual costing and update costs for product, sourcing, packaging, site, and productivity changes.

Serve as a finance business partner to Operations; analyze purchase price, usage, yield, labor, overhead, mix, volume, and manufacturing variances, translate findings into action, and drive performance improvements with operational leaders.

Support the monthly inventory and cost-of-goods-sold close, including variance and reserve analyses, reconciliations, management reporting, and supporting schedules or journal entries with Accounting.

Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement on supplier, commodity, minimum-order, freight, tariff, duty, and make-versus-buy analyses.

Support product development and commercialization through cost estimates, target-cost and margin analysis, and post-launch validation.

Transform Supply Chain reporting by improving data quality, standardizing KPIs, automating recurring reports, and building actionable dashboards for cost, yield, scrap, inventory, forecast accuracy, service, and productivity.

Strengthen inventory and costing processes and controls with Accounting, Operations, and Supply Chain, including cycle counts, physical inventories, master data, cost changes, and adjustments.

Support audits through clear schedules, costing methodology explanations, and documentation of assumptions and controls.

Support S&OP with financial analysis of demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and scenarios; highlight risks and opportunities and align operational plans with financial expectations.

Qualifications Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience Accounting, Finance, or related field.
7-9 years related experience progressive accounting and finance experience.
1-3 years related experience Minimum 3 years of cost accounting experience within a manufacturing environment.
1-3 years related experience Experience supporting supply chain, operations, or manufacturing finance functions.
1-3 years related experience Experience in Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Food & Beverage, Nutraceuticals, or Pharmaceutical manufacturing preferred.

CPA, CMA, or MBA.Knowledge, Skills & Competencies Strong understanding of cost accounting principles, inventory accounting, and U.S. GAAP.Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including Pivot Tables, Power Query, lookups, and financial modeling.

Experience with ERP systems such as Hyperion, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Net Suite, or similar platforms.

Understanding of manufacturing processes, inventory management, procurement, and supply chain operations.

Excellent analytical,…