What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cost Accountant position at Shinkei?
The Role
Seremoni Seafoods is seeking a Cost Accountant to support our seafood processing operations in Tacoma, WA. This role sits directly within the plant and serves as a key operational finance partner across production, inventory, logistics, and accounting.
This position is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and reporting plant operational and financial information, with a primary focus on production costs, inventory accounting, operational KPIs, and financial accuracy. The objective of this role is to provide timely, reliable information that enables leadership to make strong operational and strategic decisions.
This is a highly hands-on role for someone who thrives in fast-moving operational environments and enjoys building systems, structure, and reporting rigor within a growing company.
What You Get To Do
Cost & Production Control
Seremoni Seafoods is seeking a Cost Accountant to support our seafood processing operations in Tacoma, WA. This role sits directly within the plant and serves as a key operational finance partner across production, inventory, logistics, and accounting.
This position is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and reporting plant operational and financial information, with a primary focus on production costs, inventory accounting, operational KPIs, and financial accuracy. The objective of this role is to provide timely, reliable information that enables leadership to make strong operational and strategic decisions.
This is a highly hands-on role for someone who thrives in fast-moving operational environments and enjoys building systems, structure, and reporting rigor within a growing company.
What You Get To Do
Cost & Production Control
- Calculate and analyze production costs per batch and per product, ensuring accurate allocation of raw materials, labor, and overhead
- Analyze production data and operational metrics to support reliable decision-making
- Perform daily, weekly, and monthly production closures and reporting
- Track and report key plant KPIs including yield, throughput, productivity, waste, shrinkage, and labor efficiency
- Analyze cost and operational variances, identifying trends and root causes
- Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and operational planning processes
- Help develop scalable costing methodologies and reporting systems as operations grow
- Perform inventory valuation across raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods
- Coordinate with Operations and Logistics teams on physical inventory counts and cycle counts
- Reconcile inventory discrepancies and improve inventory accuracy processes
- Monitor inventory movement, usage, shrinkage, and operational reconciliation workflows
- Support month-end close procedures related to inventory and plant accounting
- Support day-to-day AP/AR activities tied to plant operations
- Maintain accurate bookkeeping and operational accounting records
- Assist with reconciliations, accruals, journal entries, and month-end close activities
- Ensure operational and financial data remain accurate, organized, and audit-ready
- Partner with external accounting resources and internal leadership as needed
- Generate and maintain plant management reports and KPI dashboards
- Serve as a primary administrator for plant operational and accounting systems (ERP, inventory platforms, or Excel-based tools)
- Ensure data integrity and accuracy across plant reporting systems
- Improve documentation, controls, and financial processes as the company scales
- Build reporting visibility that supports both operational execution and leadership decision-making
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field
- 3–6 years of experience in cost accounting, manufacturing accounting, inventory accounting, or plant finance
- Experience working in manufacturing, food production, seafood processing, cold chain, or industrial operations preferred
- Strong understanding of inventory accounting and operational finance processes
- Advanced Excel skills and comfort working in ERP or inventory management systems
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work cross-functionally with production, logistics, operations, and finance teams
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments with developing systems and processes
- Ability to balance detailed execution with operational decision support
- Seafood processing or perishable inventory environments
- ERP implementation or systems migrations
- High transaction-volume operational accounting
- Production KPI reporting and operational analytics
- Building inventory controls and reconciliation processes
- Startup or high-growth operational environments
- Multi-site manufacturing or processing operations
- This role is onsite at our Tacoma processing facility
- The role works closely with plant operations and leadership teams on a daily basis
- Some schedule flexibility may be required during inventory counts, production peaks, or month-end close
- This role is highly operational and works directly with real-time production data and plant workflows
- We value people who are low ego, high ownership, detail-oriented, and excited to help build systems that scale