Cost Accounting and Pricing Manager ( Food Manufacturing )

Title:  Cost Accounting and Pricing Manager ( Food Manufacturing )

Location:  Elgin Illinois

Shift(s): 8a-5p

Internal/External posting: 

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Salary Range:  $130,000-$140,000

Bonus Eligibility: Discretionary, Not Guaranteed

POSITION SCOPE:

The Cost Accounting and Pricing Manager leads financial analysis, standard product costing, pricing models, and product-line profitability strategies. This role bridges financial reporting, commercial sales, and shop-floor production by overseeing data synchronization between NetSuite ERP and Nulogy Shop Floor / Co-Pack systems. The manager identifies margin-improvement opportunities, evaluates pricing strategies, tracks manufacturing variances, and delivers SKU and customer-level profitability analysis to maximize overall business margins. 

REPORTS TO: VP of Financial Planning and Analysis ( FP&A)

ESSENTIAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Product Costing Management:

• Manage      product BOM and establish and update standard costs for raw ingredients,      packaging, and labor in NetSuite and Nulogy.

· Analyze daily and monthly manufacturing variances, focusing heavily on direct and indirect labor variances, material variances, line productivity, yields, and scrap across all assigned locations.

· Partner with regional plant production managers to identify root causes of yield variances using Nulogy real-time manufacturing logs.

· Audit and make recommendations to refine and optimize product formulations, bills of materials (BOMs), and processing routings.

· Analyze and understand indirect manufacturing costs and capacity utilization for cost allocation purposes.

Pricing Management:

• Develop,      maintain, and approve data-driven customer and product pricing models for      new and existing product introductions and custom co-packing requests.

· Analyze the financial impact of raw material and ingredient commodity price fluctuations on existing product pricing, including customer and SKU purchase price variance (PPV) true-ups.

· Provide financial models and margin impact analysis to the VP of FP&A during customer RFPs and contract negotiations.

· Review and monitor customer and vendor agreements to ensure the commercial terms are consistent with pricing models and invoicing.

Profitability Management:

• Lead      comprehensive SKU profitability analysis to identify low-margin or      loss-making product lines.

· Conduct customer profitability analysis, evaluating net margins after factoring in new material and indirect costs.

· Deliver variable contribution margin and gross margin performance reports.

· Maintain and prepare management reporting that sets forth informative KPI’s at the customer and SKU level and bridges those results to the company’s budget and pricing models.

· Identify margin variances and work with sales, operations, and supply chain personnel to take corrective action.

· Support the VP of FP&A in preparing the multi-facility annual manufacturing budget and quarterly corporate forecasts.

Additional Key Responsibilities:

ERP System Oversight and Maintenance:

• Serve      as the finance owner for data alignment between NetSuite (financial      sub-ledger) and Nulogy (production execution) across multiple      plants.

· Oversee daily/weekly inventory reconciliations between NetSuite and Nulogy to eliminate multi-site inventory variances.

· Audit Nulogy production logs across facilities to ensure accurate consumption of raw ingredients, packaging material, and labor routing steps.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s      degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

· Required: 5–7 years of progressive experience in cost accounting, pricing, or commercial financial analysis.

· Required: Experience working directly within a food manufacturing, beverage, or perishable goods environment.

· At least 1–2 years of experience in a supervisory, team-lead, or project-management capacity.

Location & Travel Requirements

• Required:      Ability to report on-site daily to the Elgin, IL facility.

· Ability to occasionally travel to regional manufacturing facilities as required.

Certifications

• Preferred:      Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Certified Management Accountant      (CMA).

Technical Skills:

• Preferred:      Hands-on experience working with NetSuite ERP and Nulogy      software.

· Advanced Excel capabilities (macros, power query, complex formulas for price/volume/mix analysis).

· Experience building data visualizations for plant operations and sales margins in Power BI or Tableau.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Ability      to present complex financial and pricing concepts to executive teams,      plant operations, and corporate sales teams.

· Self-motivated leader comfortable handling large, unstructured production and commercial datasets across multiple sites.

· Strong attention to detail regarding yield calculations, product shelf-life risk, and customer contract terms.