About Liquid Death
Liquid Death is a healthy beverage company with ice-cold sustainable cans designed to murder your thirst.
Founded in January of 2019 and based in Los Angeles, California, Liquid Death is one of the nation’s fastest growing beverage brands taking a completely unnecessary approach to canned water and iced teas. Unnecessary things tend to be far more interesting, fun, hilarious, captivating, memorable, exciting, and cult-worthy. Taking the world’s healthiest beverage and making it just as unnecessarily entertaining as the unhealthy brands has put Liquid Death on the map for LinkedIn's Top Startups 2022, Contagious's Brand of the Year 2022, Ad Age Top Marketer of the Year 2022, and Medium’s cult-worthy brands among other accolades.
As Liquid Death continues to bring unnecessarily awesome beverage options to more people, Liquid Death is equally as excited to promote and help fund alternative art, music, and entertainment alongside the brand.
Ensure your Liquid Death job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud! Liquid Death never seeks payment from job applicants and will never request a meeting via Skype. Liquid Death recruiters will only reach out to candidates from an mail@ats.rippling.com email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.liquiddeath.com/pages/careers.
About The Job
Liquid Death is looking for a Cost Accountant to join our Accounting & Finance team. The Cost Accountant will play a crucial role in managing and optimizing our cost accounting functions. Reporting directly to the Controller, you will work closely with the Operations team to oversee Bill of Materials (BOM), costing, and purchase order (PO) and pricing reviews. Additionally, you will be responsible for BOM projections in collaboration with Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A). Your insights and expertise will be vital in supporting accurate cost tracking, pricing strategies, and overall financial performance.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Operations team to review, maintain, and update accurate BOMs. Ensure BOMs reflect the most current cost structures and production processes. This includes providing insights on new BOM costing for new innovation.
- Perform detailed costing analysis for products, including direct and indirect costs. Support pricing decisions and cost-saving initiatives through comprehensive cost analysis.
- Review and analyze purchase orders and pricing to ensure alignment with budgetary constraints and cost targets. Work with internal teams to resolve pricing discrepancies and optimize procurement processes as will as manage any contractual.
- Work collaboratively with IT & OPS on new projects for improving end-to-end procurement processes/integrations to ensure all accounting & pricing information is properly reported
- Leverage NetSuite to track and analyze cost data. Ensure accurate cost entries and support system enhancements related to cost accounting functions.
- Prepare and present cost reports, including variance analyses and cost forecasts. Provide actionable insights to support decision-making and financial planning.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements within cost accounting and recommend best practices to enhance accuracy and efficiency.
- Work collaboratively with the Technical Accounting department to provide quarterly reviews of inventory obsolescence and net realizable (E&O/NRV analysis) & provide updates to management & audit requests as needed.
- Manage SOX compliance as it relates to cost accounting procedures to ensure proper segregation of duties in accordance with the COSO framework.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards and internal controls. Maintain thorough and accurate documentation for cost accounting activities.
- Provide reporting for both internal and stakeholders on costing & SOH reporting.
Knowledge, Skills, & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance; CPA encouraged.
- Experience with ERP systems is required, specifically NetSuite, a plus.
- Experience with Excel (Pivot tables, Lookups, Index, etc) required.
- 5-7 years of cost accounting experience, with a strong preference for experience in the startup or CPG sector. Comanufacturing experience is highly desirable.
- Solid understanding of cost accounting principles, financial analysis, budgeting, US GAAP & full-cycle audit experience.
- Prior experience with multiple subsidiaries/entities strongly encouraged
- Ability to leverage technology for efficient data gathering and analysis; comfort with digesting large sets of data & providing analysis.
- Strong interpersonal skills for interacting with other departments, vendors, and upper management.
The salary range for this role is $92,000 - $113,000 annually.
The actual salary offer will take into account multiple factors including skills, experience, education and location. Please note that the salary details listed in role postings reflect the base salary only, not total compensation, which includes equity and benefits.
