Associate Cost Accountant

Employee Type: Full time

Location: WI De Pere

Job Type: Finance Accounting

Job Posting Title: Associate Cost Accountant

About Us

TreeHouse Foods is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of over 20 production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

Named one of America’s Best Large Employers by Forbes Magazine, we are proud to live by a strong set of values and strive to "Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time." Guided by our values— Own It, Commit to Excellence, Be Agile, Speak Up, and Better Together. We are a diverse team driven by integrity, accountability, and a commitment to exceptional results. We embrace change, prioritize continuous learning, and foster collaboration, transparency, and healthy debate. Together, we set each other up for success to achieve enterprise-wide goals.

What You Gain

• Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting period – you’re eligible from your first day!
• 401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll.
• Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days, parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays).
• Leaders who are invested in supporting your accelerated career growth, plus paid training, tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform – DevelopU – with more than 10,000 free courses to support you along the way.
• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of professionals. Take advantage of opportunities to build on our team-oriented culture, such as joining one of our Employee Resource Groups.
• Access to our wellness and employee assistance programs.

Job Description

About the Role: We are seeking an Associate Cost Accountant, to join our Finance team based in our De Pere, WI office. The Associate Cost Accountant supports the company’s cost accounting, inventory accounting, and financial close processes to help ensure accurate, complete, and timely product costs, inventory balances, journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial reporting. This role partners with Supply Chain Finance, Plant Finance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams to maintain accurate standard costs, analyze cost and inventory activity, investigate variances, and provide financial information that supports operational and business decisions. The Associate Cost Accountant also assists with process improvements, system-related initiatives, internal controls, audits, annual planning, and the annual standard cost roll.

You’ll add value to this role by performing various functions including, but not limited to:

• Perform monthly close activities related to cost accounting and inventory, including preparing journal entries, completing account reconciliations, analyzing account activity, investigating reconciling items, and preparing supporting documentation.
• Maintain and analyze standard costs for new and existing materials and products, working with appropriate business partners to identify incomplete, inaccurate, or unusual costing information.
• Support inventory accounting and reporting, including preparing inventory reserve calculations, capitalized variance calculations, cycle count monitoring and reporting, and monthly reporting and analysis of inventory balances and activity.
• Assist with the annual standard cost roll and Annual Operating Plan activities, including data preparation, validation, variance analysis, issue resolution, documentation, and communication with key stakeholders.
• Assist with the maintenance and continuous improvement of cost accounting processes, procedures, reporting tools, and financial systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve costs accounting processes through automation and artificial intelligence (“AI”).
• Leverage tools such as Microsoft CoPilot and BlackLine to support process efficiency, accuracy, and control.
• Maintain clear documentation supporting accounting processes, account balances, calculations, journal entries, audit requests, and internal controls.
• Provide support for internal and external audits by preparing documentation, responding to questions, gathering sampling data, and resolving assigned audit items.
• Assist with acquisition integrations, divestiture activities, reporting changes, and other finance projects.

Important Details

This is a full-time, first-shift hybrid position located at our De Pere, WI office. The anticipated compensation for this position ranges from $52,000 - $78,000 USD Annually. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics and business or organizational needs. For certain roles, the successful candidate may be eligible for annual discretionary merit compensation award, bonus and equity pay.

You’ll fit right in if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is required. CPA is preferred.
• A minimum of 2 years of progressive accounting or finance experience is required.
• Experience in cost accounting, inventory accounting, plant accounting, manufacturing, audit, or record-to-report experience is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams is required.
• Highly motivated, results driven, and self-starting, with the ability to apply accounting knowledge and professional experience to develop accurate cost analyses.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with employees at all levels of the company.
• SAP experience is preferred.
• Solid understanding of generally accepted accounting principles, cost accounting concepts, inventory accounting, financial analysis, and financial reporting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret financial and operational information and develop well-supported conclusions.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate, complete, and timely work.

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At TreeHouse Foods, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us “Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time”. TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact disability-accommodations@treehousefoods.com