Rugsusa
Cost Accountant
New York, NY · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 23 hours ago
Financial AnalysisAccountingExcelSAPValuationSupply ChainLogisticsProcurementERPProblem SolvingGAAPFinancial ReportingNetSuiteVariance Analysis
About the role
- This is a hybrid role requiring on-site presence in our Manhattan office 3 to 4 days per week.
- Essential Job Functions 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.
Responsibilities
- Position Overview 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.
- Maintain and analyze standard costs, purchase cost changes, and vendor-level cost movements by SKU.
- 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.
- Ensure month-end inventory cutoff accuracy and validate inventory movements across WMS, OMS, and ERP systems.
- Partner with Logistics to monitor freight trends and assess their impact on product cost and gross margin.
- Ability to manage deadlines and work effectively across accounting, logistics, procurement, merchandising, operations, and supply chain teams.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of standard costing, landed cost, inventory valuation, variance analysis, cost-of-goods-sold accounting, and gross margin analysis.
- Experience with ERP, WMS, OMS, or similar systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, or comparable platforms.
Company info
- About RugsUSA 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.
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