What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cost Accountant position at CFS?
Title: Cost Accountant
Salary: $80,000 - $100,000
Location: Wellington, FL 33414 and some travel during busy season to the Belle Glade office
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
Salary: $80,000 - $100,000
Location: Wellington, FL 33414 and some travel during busy season to the Belle Glade office
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
- Join a stable and growing company with over 80 years of industry success
- Be part of an organization committed to sustainability, water conservation, and reducing environmental impact
- Opportunity to influence key financial and operational decisions through meaningful cost analysis
- Annual salary increases based on performance and company success
- Eligible for a discretionary annual company bonus
- 401(k) plan with a 3% company match
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Pet insurance and additional employee perks
- Generous Paid Time Off to support work-life balance
- Collaborative environment with opportunities for long-term career growth and advancement
- Prepare and maintain production budgets, ensuring material, labor, and overhead costs are accurately tracked and analyzed
- Maintain detailed cost records related to raw materials, labor, overhead, and production activities
- Analyze variances between estimated and actual costs, providing recommendations to improve efficiency and control expenses
- Monitor fast-moving, short-shelf-life inventory and ensure accurate inventory valuation and reporting
- Account for natural product shrinkage, spoilage, and waste within inventory costing processes
- Value raw produce inventory while managing the impact of fluctuating market purchase prices
- Maintain accurate bills of material, routings, and yield/scrap factors within the DAX ERP system to reflect actual production processes
- Evaluate the cost impact of new products, packaging changes, process improvements, and capital projects
- Prepare timely and accurate balance sheet reconciliations for inventory, cost-related accruals, and other assigned accounts, resolving reconciling items within established deadlines
- Prepare and post period-end journal entries, including inventory adjustments, accruals, overhead allocations, absorption entries, and cost of goods sold transactions in accordance with the monthly close calendar
- Prepare financial reports and cost analyses that support operational and executive decision-making
- 3 years of cost accounting experience
Salary : $70,000 - $90,000