# Cost Accounting Manager at Nordic Naturals Cost Accounting Manager at Nordic Naturals in Vista, CA. Posted October 6, 2026. - Company: Nordic Naturals - Location: Vista, CA - Experience: 7+ years - Posted: 2026-10-06 - Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nordicnaturals/jobs/4432197009 - Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/cost-accounting-manager-nordic-naturals-fb1cz6 ## Requirements - Required: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field. - Preferred: CPA, CMA, or MBA. ## Description **Salary: 131K - 146KLocation - Vista, CA**   **About Nordic Naturals** At Nordic Naturals, we take pride in crafting foundational nutrients to help people all over the world live healthy lives. Our mission is to give people, pets, and families the highest-quality nutrients possible to be well and support optimal health. This seemingly simple mission of global health relies on a dedicated team of motivated employees who share our passion for nutrition and wellness. Join us and discover how rewarding it can be to make a living while contributing to a truly great cause.   **POSITION SUMMARY** The **Cost Accounting Manager** is an experienced cost accounting leader responsible for building and leading the cost accounting function within Operations Finance, including standard costing, inventory valuation, manufacturing variance analysis, multi-plant inventory reconciliation, and margin reporting in SAP S/4HANA. This role partners closely with Manufacturing, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Warehouse teams across multiple manufacturing plants to ensure product costs are accurately captured and reported, and plays a key role in strengthening cost accounting processes and controls as the Operations Finance function scales.   ### **Essential Functions & Core Responsibilities** ### **Standard Costing and Inventory Valuation** - Maintain and update standard costs for raw materials, packaging, and finished goods in SAP S/4HANA, ensuring costs reflect current bills of materials (BOMs) and routings across all manufacturing plants. - Oversee annual and periodic standard cost rolls in SAP S/4HANA, including labor and overhead rate development. - Ensure inventory is properly valued in SAP S/4HANA and reconciled to the general ledger across all manufacturing plants and distribution locations, including raw materials, WIP, and finished goods. - Review and approve journal entries related to inventory, cost of goods sold, and manufacturing overhead absorption.   **Variance Analysis and Reporting** - Analyze and report monthly manufacturing variances — purchase price variance (PPV), material usage/yield variance, labor efficiency variance, and overhead absorption variance — by plant and product line. - Partner with plant and manufacturing leadership to identify root causes of variances and drive corrective action plans. - Stand up and own the slow-moving and obsolete (SLOB) inventory reserve process, including monitoring scrap and obsolescence, ensuring reserve calculations are timely and well-supported, and driving timely write-off of inventory no longer usable through the Material Review Board (MRB) process. - Prepare product margin and cost analysis to support pricing decisions, new product introductions, and manufacturing/operational decision-making. - Develop and maintain variance reporting analyses in SAP S/4HANA and BI tools to give plant and executive leadership visibility into cost performance trends.   **Month-End Close and Internal Controls** - Lead month-end close activities related to inventory and cost accounting across all manufacturing plants, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. - Maintain and strengthen internal controls over inventory valuation, cost accounting, and physical inventory processes. - Coordinate and support physical inventory counts and cycle counts across all plants, including reconciliation of count results to perpetual inventory and the general ledger. - Ensure compliance with GAAP, company policy, and audit requirements related to cost accounting and inventory. - Perform multi-plant inventory reconciliation each close cycle, reconciling perpetual inventory, inter- plant/intercompany transfers, and in-transit inventory in SAP S/4HANA to the general ledger. - Establish and manage a documented month-end close calendar, ownership matrix, and deliverable-review process for cost accounting. **Cross-Functional Partnership and Process Improvement** - Serve as the finance partner to Manufacturing, Warehouse, and Supply Chain across all manufacturing plants on cost-related questions and decisions. - Identify and lead process improvement initiatives to increase the accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of cost accounting processes. - Support the build-out of the Operations Finance function, including documentation of policies, procedures, and controls. - Establish consistent documentation, file-management, and workpaper standards so analyses and close support are complete, traceable, and readily accessible. - Directly supervise, coach, and develop cost accounting staff; set clear priorities, deadlines, and quality expectations for the team. - Performs other duties as assigned.   ### **Position QualificationsEducation** - Required: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field. - Preferred: CPA, CMA, or MBA. **Experience ** - 7-10+ years of progressive cost accounting or manufacturing accounting experience, including standard costing, inventory valuation, variance analysis, and multi-plant inventory reconciliation. - 3+ years of experience in a supervisory or people-management capacity, leading cost accounting or manufacturing accounting staff. - Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA strongly preferred, including the Materials Management (MM) and Controlling (CO) modules, standard cost estimates, and month-end close processes. - Manufacturing environment experience required, ideally within a multi-plant/multi-site organization; food, supplements, or CPG industry experience strongly preferred. - Strong understanding of GAAP as it relates to inventory and cost accounting. - Experience supporting or leading physical inventory and cycle count processes across multiple locations.   ### **Competency Statements** • Analytical - Ability to gather, interpret, and draw sound conclusions from complex cost and financial data. • Detail Oriented - Ability to pay close attention to the accuracy of costs, variances, and financial data. • Problem Solving - Ability to identify root causes of issues and drive them to resolution. • Leadership - Ability to lead, coach, and develop staff, and to influence cross-functional partners without direct authority. • Communication - Ability to clearly communicate financial concepts to non-finance audiences. • Initiative - Ability to make decisions or take action to solve a problem or reach a goal. • Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task. • Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.   ### **Other Preferred Skills & AbilitiesComputer Skills** - Advanced Excel skills, including financial modeling and large data set analysis. - Hands-on proficiency with SAP S/4HANA (Controlling and Materials Management modules) and cost/inventory transactions; familiarity with other ERP/MRP systems (Oracle, NetSuite, etc.) a plus. - Experience with BI/reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau) a plus.