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Senior Cost Accountant

$100 - $105 per hour

AppleOne

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Cost Accountant for a contract opportunity supporting a growing biotechnology/pharmaceutical organization with global cost accounting operations. This role is ideal for an experienced accounting professional with strong product costing, inventory accounting, and manufacturing or life sciences experience.

The Senior Cost Accountant will support commercial expansion, new product launch readiness, month-end close activities, inventory valuation, SOX controls, and SAP-driven process improvements. This is a highly collaborative environment with strong cross-functional partnership across Supply Chain, FP&A, External Reporting, Technical Accounting, Internal Audit, and SAP business teams.

This opportunity offers exposure to a complex global accounting environment, supportive leadership, meaningful business impact, and the chance to help build scalable cost accounting processes during a period of continued growth.

Key Responsibilities

- Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities, including journal entries, Blackline tasks, balance sheet reconciliations, and inventory-related reporting.
- Support SAP product costing processes, including standard cost rollups, component cost updates, overhead rates, bill of materials review, routing maintenance, PIR reviews, and subcontracting processes.
- Maintain and analyze standard costs, inventory discrepancies, inventory reserves, inventory valuation, and cost of goods sold activity.
- Prepare SOX control documentation and support internal control compliance, process implementation, and system-related control improvements.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to support new product launches, manufacturing transfers, commercial readiness, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to SAP accelerated close activities, automation efforts, reporting enhancements, and ad hoc accounting operations projects.

Compensation and Benefits

- Compensation: $100 to $105 per hour.
- Job Type: Contract/Temporary.
- Work Schedule: Hybrid.
- Work Location: Princeton, NJ.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disabled / Protected Veterans

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For temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer, the Company is pleased to offer major medical, dental, vision, 401k and any statutory sick pay where required.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact your staffing representative who will reach out to our HR team.

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We also consider for employment qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements, including, if applicable, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. Pursuant to applicable state and municipal Fair Chance Laws and Ordinances, we will consider for employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, including, if applicable, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. For Los Angeles, CA applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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This company offers growth and a great group of people to work with.

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