ref. no.
1003558
type
Remote
location
Toronto, ON
salary
$70 - $90
status
Contract
Position: Senior Cost Accountant
Location: Remote (Canada)
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
What Our Client Offers:
- Fully remote work environment
- Opportunity to work with a high-growth, technology-driven organization
- Exposure to complex inventory, logistics, and e-commerce operations
- Competitive contract compensation
This opportunity is ideal for a hands-on Cost Accountant who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys working across inventory, operations, and finance to drive accuracy and continuous improvement.
Please send your resume in Word format to Vanessa Tran at vanessa.tran@quantum.ca.
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Location: Remote (Canada)
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
What Our Client Offers:
- Fully remote work environment
- Opportunity to work with a high-growth, technology-driven organization
- Exposure to complex inventory, logistics, and e-commerce operations
- Competitive contract compensation
This opportunity is ideal for a hands-on Cost Accountant who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys working across inventory, operations, and finance to drive accuracy and continuous improvement.
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.
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