Cost Accounting Manager

Cost Accounting Manager

This posting is intended for current Vital Farms employees. If you are not an employee, please visit our careers page to view available opportunities and follow the appropriate application process.

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At Vital Farms, we're proud of the diverse communities we serve and the stakeholders who help bring our purpose to life. We're committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment where every crew member feels valued. Your role is key to helping us build on it.

Your Role :

The Cost Accounting Manager reports to the Director of Operations Accounting and is primarily responsible for developing and continuously improving the company's cost of goods sold and inventory accounting processes. They will be a key business partner to the Plant Controller, Operations, Supply Chain, Farm Support, and FP&A teams.

What You'll Do :

• Own the entire standard costing process including but not limited to periodic rate reviews, new product cost development, annual cost builds & rollups, and cost audits.
• Manage & summarize month end variances & understand their drivers. Own the capitalized variance capture & amortization process.
• Partner with Plant Controller, and FP&A to understand ECS overhead rates & related monthly variance & recommend actions if material variances are noted.
• Work closely with Plant Controller team to ensure production & inventory transactions are completed prior to period end activities & gain insights into variances or issues seen.
• Drive constant improvement of costing accuracy, forecasting, and overall visibility of our egg and butter COGS.
• Support year end audit activities with our internal & external audit partners & participate in year-end physical inventory.
• Continuously evaluate and streamline processes and reports, working closely with the team to drive change enhancing improvements.
• Develop, implement, and monitor internal control processes and procedures and ensure compliance with SOX and other regulatory requirements.
• Be the subject matter expert on costing and drive continuous improvement.
• Develop deep understanding of production processes and material sourcing.
• Proactively identify and raise costing and process improvement opportunities.
• Provide leadership and training to the cost team.
• Collaborate with FP&A, cross-functional teams and senior management on special projects, strategic initiatives, and other ad-hoc analyses / projects as needed.

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