Senior Cost Accountant

Summary

This position offers an opportunity to work in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment for a fashion label in the retail industry. The successful candidate must have a deep understanding of inventory controls, experience reconciling inventory in a retail / omni-channel environment, and a comprehensive understanding of standard cost systems, along with strong interpersonal skills.

Senior Cost Accountant

• Responsible for daily and monthly reconciliation and oversight of the Company’s inventory sub-ledger (ERP) to 3PL and store inventory for its retail and wholesale business.
• Responsible for wholesale sales and margin analysis.
• Help drive balance sheet reconciliations and process improvements.
• Identify, analyze and communicate root cause of variances, establishing inventory controls, and making required adjustments, working with retail operations team and logistics.
• Maintain cost accounting system including updating of standards, working with product development team.
• Develop inventory analysis reporting and analyze variances from standard.
• Oversee annual physical inventory counts.

• Inventory control experience.
• Experience with inventory standard costing, including managing and accounting for standard costs and analysis of variances.
• Good working knowledge of first-in, first-out inventory accounting, including capitalization and expensing of cost variances (purchase price, freight, and duty variances).
• Results-oriented, flexible, resourceful and self-motivated.
• Detail-oriented, accurate, well-organized and able to prioritize.
• Strong analytical skills and initiative.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong time-management skills and ability to adhere to month-end close timelines.
• Ability to work independently and provide solutions to questions.
• Proficiency in Excel and inventory general ledger applications.
• Demonstrated curiosity about what is happening in the business and why.

• 5-7 years of experience in managing inventory with standard cost accounting experience.
• Microsoft Dynamics preferred, but not required.
• Retail / wholesale industry experience a plus.
• BS in Accounting.

$125,000