Cost Accounting Supervisor

Job Description

Cost Accounting Supervisor | Novolex

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Novolex, a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that serves diverse industries including foodservice, retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex leverages extensive manufacturing and sourcing expertise across various substrates to provide a broad array of stock and customized solutions, encompassing 120 product categories, 250 brands, and over 39,000 SKUs. Novolex is committed to a sustainability vision built upon three pillars: its products, operations, and people, aiming to achieve ambitious goals through wide-ranging initiatives. This supervisory role is critical for ensuring accurate, timely, and well-controlled accounting activities across key financial processes, directly supporting the company’s operational integrity and growth.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Remote, Not specified in job description, US

• Team: Supervises a two-person team (one Senior Cost Accountant, one Staff Accountant) and serves as the first level of review and escalation.
• Mission: Ensure accurate, timely, and well-controlled accounting activities across close, reconciliations, reporting, inventory, freight, accruals, and intercompany accounting.
• Tech Stack: ERP, SAP (strongly preferred), Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Lead Cost Accounting Close & Review: Oversee all monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities specifically within assigned cost accounting areas. This includes the meticulous review of journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, freight, inventory activity, and intercompany transactions, along with their supporting schedules, to ensure all close deliverables are accurate, timely, thoroughly documented, and fully aligned with internal control standards.
• Supervise & Develop the Team: Directly manage and coach a two-person team, consisting of one Senior Cost Accountant and one Staff Accountant. Responsibilities include assigning work, conducting thorough reviews of deliverables, providing constructive feedback, and serving as the initial point of escalation for any complex accounting, data, process, or reconciliation questions.
• Own Day-to-Day Accounting Execution: Take full ownership of all routine cost accounting processes and recurring deliverables within the department. This involves diligently monitoring deadlines, proactively resolving any emerging issues, and ensuring the team consistently operates with discipline and accountability to maintain high standards.
• Drive Controls & Process Improvement: Establish and maintain robust documentation practices to ensure audit-ready support for all accounting activities. Proactively identify and implement opportunities to enhance efficiency, reduce rework, standardize recurring processes, and support continuous process alignment and scalability as the cost accounting function at Novolex evolves.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, positioning this role at a supervisory career level.
• Experience: 4–6+ years of relevant accounting experience, with required experience in ERP systems and a strong preference for SAP experience.
• Skills: Strong understanding of inventory, COGS, accruals, reconciliations, intercompany activity, and month-end close processes. Proficiency in Excel and the ability to analyze large data sets are essential, alongside experience reviewing journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
• Bonus: Prior experience specifically in cost accounting, inventory accounting, manufacturing accounting, or operations accounting. Previous supervisory, team lead, or review experience is also preferred.