Senior Cost & Inventory Accountant

Overview

Coborn's is seeking a strategic and detail-oriented Senior Cost and Inventory Accountant to lead and enhance our cost and inventory accounting functions across retail, distribution, manufacturing, and food production operations. In this newly created role, you'll serve as the organization's subject matter expert for product costing, inventory accounting, gross margin analysis, and operational financial performance while partnering closely with teams across the business.

This is an exciting opportunity to build scalable processes, strengthen inventory controls, and deliver meaningful financial insights that support operational efficiency, profitability, and future growth. As part of our employee-owned company, your contributions will directly impact business success and help create value for your fellow employee-owners. If you enjoy collaborating across teams, solving complex challenges, and making a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you.

As a Senior Cost and Inventory Accountant, you ll play a key role in building and leading our cost and inventory accounting function while partnering with teams across the organization to drive informed business decisions. You ll combine financial expertise with operational insight to help improve profitability, strengthen inventory controls, and support the continued growth of our employee-owned company.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and maintain product costing methodologies across retail, distribution, bakery, commissary, and food production operations.
• Analyze costs, margins, and profitability to identify trends and opportunities that support strategic decision-making.
• Lead inventory accounting activities, including inventory valuation, reconciliations, month-end close processes, and financial reporting.
• Ensure inventory records are accurate and aligned with financial reporting requirements while investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Partner with Distribution, Production, Merchandising, Retail Operations, and other business leaders to provide meaningful financial analysis and operational insights.
• Create reporting, dashboards, and key performance metrics that help leaders monitor inventory performance, profitability, and operational efficiency.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, business cases, and operational improvement initiatives.
• Strengthen inventory controls, coordinate physical inventory and cycle count programs, and assist with audit and compliance activities.
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting, enhance systems, improve processes, and leverage technology to increase efficiency and accuracy.
• Serve as a trusted business partner, providing financial guidance, actionable recommendations, and data-driven insights that support the success of our employee-owned company.

This is an opportunity to build something from the ground up. As Coborn s continues to grow and invest in its retail, distribution, bakery, commissary, and food production operations, we re establishing a dedicated cost accounting function to strengthen financial insight and operational performance.

In this role, you ll work directly with leaders across Finance, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Distribution, Production, and Retail Operations to develop costing methodologies, improve inventory processes, enhance reporting, and influence key business decisions. If you enjoy solving complex problems, partnering with operations, and creating scalable financial processes that drive business results, this role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact.

Our remarkable employees are at the heart of everything we do. At Coborn s, we re committed to creating a supportive and rewarding workplace, one that offers a vibrant, team-oriented environment, ongoing career growth, and meaningful benefits. As an employee-owned company, we believe in investing in our people and their futures.

Please find a list of many of our exciting benefits below:

• Medical & Dental insurance with Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
• Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) – yes, we re employee-owned! Our team…