Senior Cost Accountant (6-Month Contract)

Job summary

Maintain inventory costing and valuation processes, reconcile inventory and cost of goods sold, analyze product costs and margins, and prepare journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reports. Support audits, cycle counts, system implementations, and process improvements while providing analysis to FP&A and senior leadership.

Job details

Position: Senior Cost Accountant - 6 months contract! Location: Toronto (Remote) Salary: $70 - $90 per hour Posting Type: Open vacancy Job Type: 6-month Contract (Maternity Leave Coverage) Hours: Must be available to support Pacific Time Zone operations as needed Our client, a growing e-commerce organization within the grocery and consumer merchandise sector, is seeking a Senior Cost Accountant to join their team on a six-month contract. This role will support inventory accounting, cost analysis, financial reporting, audit activities, and process improvement initiatives in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment. Key Responsibilities: - Maintain cost accounting calculations, processes, and inventory valuation methodologies. - Ensure accuracy of inventory balances and cost of goods sold (COGS) through collaboration with Operations, Supply Chain, FP&A, and other stakeholders. - Investigate and resolve inventory discrepancies, including reconciliations between 3PL providers, vendor shipments, and goods in transit. - Perform quarterly standard cost reviews and analyze the impact of cost changes. - Support inventory management system implementations, testing, and process design initiatives. - Prepare month-end journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis, and financial reporting for assigned areas. - Analyze product costs, margins, profitability, and inventory trends. - Support FP&A with reporting and analysis for senior leadership. - Lead inventory-related audit activities, cycle counts, and internal control processes. - Identify and implement process improvements to enhance inventory accuracy and reporting efficiency. - Assist with ad hoc projects and financial analysis as required. Qualifications: - CPA designation or progress toward CPA is preferred - 5+ years of accounting experience with a focus on cost accounting, inventory accounting, retail, distribution, e-commerce, consumer goods, or supply chain environments - Strong understanding of inventory valuation, standard costing, reconciliations, and COGS - Experience working with 3PL providers and multiple inventory or financial systems - Comfortable operating in environments with manual processes and data from multiple sources - Experience supporting audits, internal controls, and process improvements - Advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, Power Query, and large data set analysis - ERP experience required; Oracle Fusion experience is strongly preferred - Strong systems aptitude with the ability to quickly learn and navigate new technologies Please send your resume in Word format to Vanessa Tran at vanessa.tran@quantum.ca. REFER A TEMP HIRE AND EARN A BONUS! For details, click here. All applications are reviewed by our recruitment team, and hiring decisions are made by people. We may also use AI-enabled tools to support parts of the application review process. #tor1

What you’ll do

Maintain inventory costing and valuation processes, reconcile inventory and cost of goods sold, analyze product costs and margins, and prepare journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reports. Support audits, cycle counts, system implementations, and process improvements while providing analysis to FP&A and senior leadership.

Requirements

Requires at least five years of accounting experience focused on cost or inventory accounting in relevant retail, distribution, e-commerce, consumer goods, or supply chain environments, along with strong knowledge of inventory valuation, standard costing, reconciliations, and cost of goods sold. CPA designation or progress toward CPA is preferred; advanced Excel skills and ERP experience are required, with Oracle Fusion strongly preferred.

Listed skills

• Financial Reporting · Preferred
• Process Improvement · Preferred
• ERP systems · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Cost Accounting
• Inventory Accounting
• Inventory Valuation
• Standard Costing
• Cost Of Goods Sold Analysis
• Account Reconciliation
• Variance Analysis
• Financial Reporting
• Audit Support
• Internal Controls
• Process Improvement
• Advanced Excel
• Pivot Tables
• XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP
• Power Query
• ERP Systems

Job areas

• Finance & Accounting
• Retail
• Data & Analytics

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