Estimator (Estimator) Full-Time

Since launching in 1998, Rugs USA has established itself as a leading innovative online destination for an extensive variety of high-quality, on-trend area rugs at prices customers won't find anywhere else. Passionate about the impact that the perfect rug brings to a space, we foster close relationships with the designers, artisans, and factories who make our goods, giving us the ability to simplify our business model and deliver exceptional pricing and a vast assortment of styles. By guiding our customers through the rug buying process and offering a curated selection of complementary lighting and accessories, we've become our customers' ultimate secret weapon in bringing their vision of home to life - at any budget.

The Cost Accountant is responsible for accurate cost, inventory, and gross margin analysis to support financial reporting, pricing discipline, and informed business decisions. This role maintains standard costs, reviews inventory valuation, analyzes landed cost and purchase price variances, and investigates margin performance by SKU, vendor, category, and channel. The Cost Accountant partners with operations, procurement, logistics, merchandising, and supply chain teams to identify cost drivers, explain margin movement, improve data accuracy, and support profitability improvement initiatives.
This is a hybrid role requiring on-site presence in our Manhattan office 3 to 4 days per week.
Prepare, review, and post daily, weekly, and monthly COGS, inventory, freight, duty, tariff, and landed cost journal entries.
Reconcile inventory subledger activity to the general ledger, including inventory, freight-in, duty, tariff, capitalized freight, clearing, in-transit, and received-not-invoiced balances.
Analyze gross margin performance by SKU, vendor, product category, and channel, identifying the impact of cost changes, freight, duty, tariffs, markdowns, returns, damages, shrink, and inventory adjustments.
Partner with merchandising, procurement, logistics, and operations to explain margin movement, validate cost assumptions, and support pricing, sourcing, and profitability decisions.
Support SKU-level profitability reporting and highlight margin opportunities, cost leakage, incorrect freight coding, and other drivers of margin erosion.
Coordinate with cross-functional teams to prepare accurate in-transit inventory and capitalized freight entries.
Partner with Logistics to monitor freight trends and assess their impact on product cost and gross margin.
Prepare audit schedules and investigate unusual cost, margin, or inventory valuation issues.
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.

• [2-5] years of experience in cost accounting, inventory accounting, retail, distribution, e-commerce, manufacturing, or a related environment.
• Strong understanding of standard costing, landed cost, inventory valuation, variance analysis, cost-of-goods-sold accounting, and gross margin analysis.
• Ability to analyze gross margin drivers across product cost, freight, duty, tariffs, markdowns, returns, damages, shrink, and inventory adjustments.
• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, financial controls, and month-end close procedures.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, formulas, data validation, and analysis of large datasets.
• Experience with ERP, WMS, OMS, or similar systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, or comparable platforms.
• Ability to communicate cost and margin drivers clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Ability to manage deadlines and work effectively across accounting, logistics, procurement, merchandising, operations, and supply chain teams.

90,000 - 100,000 USD per year (Manhattan Office)