Senior Cost Accountant

Lolli and Pops / Hammond's Candies

$85K — $110K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of progressive accounting experience in manufacturing or wholesale environment
  • Public accounting audit experience preferred, especially from Big 4 or regional firms
  • Hands-on expertise in standard costing and inventory accounting
  • Strong GAAP knowledge applicable in mid-market settings
  • Advanced Excel and ERP proficiency, with preference for Sage
  • CPA or CPA candidate preferred
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting; Master’s degree is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Drive process improvement in cost accounting, inventory, and order-to-cash
  • Standardize and document costing and inventory valuation processes
  • Conduct margin and gross-profit reporting by product, channel, and customer
  • Analyze wholesale pricing and manufacturing costs for decision-making
  • Manage fixed assets, lease schedules, and roll-forwards
  • Prepare for external audits and ensure year-round audit readiness
  • Implement inventory controls and cycle counting, including reserve analysis

Benefits

  • Dynamic role in a growing manufacturing and wholesale business
  • Opportunity to implement meaningful process improvements
  • Hands-on involvement from detailed tasks to high-level analysis
  • Potential to partner with leadership to shape key financial metrics
  • Work in a culture that values clear ownership and measurable results
Full Job Description


The role

We are hiring a Senior Accountant to own cost accounting, inventory valuation, audit readiness, and process improvement for a growing manufacturing and wholesale business. You will sit at the center of the numbers: standard costs, BOM and labor, inventory valuation, margin analysis, and the metrics leadership runs the company on. This is a build-and-improve seat. We want someone who treats a recurring, manual, or error-prone process as something to fix permanently.

Your first rock (first 30-day priority): partner with operations and systems to automate the order-to-fulfillment-to-billing process, tightening the flow from order entry through fulfillment to accurate, on-time invoicing.

What you will own

  • Process improvement across cost, inventory, and order-to-cash: standardize, document, and automate to remove manual effort and error.
  • Standard costing and inventory valuation, including BOM accuracy, labor and overhead absorption, and variance analysis (PPV, usage, yield).
  • Margin and gross-profit reporting by product, channel, and customer.
  • Wholesale pricing analysis and manufacturing cost analysis to support pricing and margin decisions.
  • Fixed assets, lease schedules, and related roll-forwards.
  • External audits and exams (annual financial and other third-party): you build the support and keep us audit-ready year-round.
  • Inventory controls, cycle counts, and reserve analysis for slow-turn and dead stock.
  • Weekly scorecard inputs and month-end variance commentary that gives operators a clear read on the business.

What you bring

  • 2+ years of progressive accounting experience, including a manufacturing or wholesale environment.
  • Public accounting audit experience highly preferred (Big 4 or regional firm).
  • Hands-on standard costing and inventory accounting expertise.
  • Strong GAAP knowledge and the judgment to apply it in a mid-market, resource-lean setting.
  • Advanced Excel and ERP experience required. Sage highly preferred.
  • CPA or CPA candidate preferred.
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting. Master's a plus.

Who thrives here

You are technically strong and hands-on. You roll up your sleeves and do the work, from the detailed reconciliation to the pricing model. You are organized, direct, and self-directed. You close fast and clean, you document as you go, and you would rather fix the root cause than reconcile the same variance every month. You are comfortable in a company that runs on EOS and expects clear ownership, measurable results, and traction on the vital few priorities.

The pay range for this role is:

85,000 - 110,000 USD per year (Corporate)

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