Senior Director Cost Accounting

Employment Type: Salaried
Shift:
Work Arrangement: Hybrid

The Senior Director of Cost Accounting is a key financial leader responsible for driving cost accuracy, compliance, and strategic insights across the organization. This role ensures adherence to companywide cost accounting policies and procedures while partnering with FP&A, Operations Finance, and other cross-functional departments to optimize costing methodologies and support informed decision-making. Key responsibilities include: compliance and governance with cost accounting policies and commodities accounting, standard cost development and maintenance, variance analysis and insight, systems and process transformation and cross-functional leadership/collaboration on cost optimization and profitability initiatives.

• Guide and support the Commodities Accounting Manager in ensuring accurate and timely execution of commodity oil-related accounting activities across daily, weekly, monthly, and annual cycles.
• Provide strategic direction and mentorship to the Cost Accounting Managers, ensuring accurate execution of monthly, quarterly, and annual cost activities and reporting. Oversee budget variance analysis for labor efficiency, material usage and yields, overhead spending, and capacity utilization, while driving actionable insights to support operational and financial objectives.
• Provide team with alternate methodologies, such as incremental costing, when adding new manufacturing line(s) to a plant or when there is a significant change in volume during the fiscal year.
• Lead the training and development of the Cost Accounting team, ensuring proficiency in current systems, best-practice methodologies and evolving technologies.
• Oversee and coordinate audit support activities relating to standard cost and commodity valuation, ensuring the accounting team receives accurate data and documentation to maintain compliance and operational excellence.
• Provide support to other projects assigned by VP, Finance and Accounting and EVP, CFO, as needed.

• Bachelors degree with primary focus in Accounting or Finance or equivalent experience, is required.
• 10+ years progressive financial experience, with an enterprise focus in cost accounting within a large company, is required.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor & manage a high performing team, is required.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, highly analytical, and possess the ability to interact and present to executive management, is required
• Travel: 10%
• MBA and or CPA preferred.
• Commodity accounting experience is highly preferred.
• Background in manufacturing preferably within the food or processing industry.
• Experience leading and managing a remote team is highly preferred.
• Prior demonstrated change management and system implementation experience desired.

• Strong communication skills, highly analytical and the ability to interact across various teams and levels.
• The ability to develop strong working relationships in across Operations, Sales, Revenue Management and other cross-functional teams.

Why Join Us:
Ventura Foods innovates and manufactures food solutions for foodservice and retail businesses. We make exclusive products for the world's most iconic restaurants and retailers, we provide ready-to-go product solutions for professional kitchens, and we make consumer brands everyone knows and loves. When you work for Ventura Foods, you get a strong foundation of training, a manager who cares about you and celebrates your success, a safe environment, and challenging work. As part of our team, your future is limited only by how much you’re willing to push yourself to get there. We invest in your growth because you invest in ours.

Ventura Foods offers career growth opportunities as well as competitive compensation and benefits:​

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision – coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees​Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays​
• Employee Appreciation Events​ and Employee Assistance Programs
• Salary Base Range of $155,734.00 - $206,853.15*
• Annual bonus (based on the incentive program terms and conditions)

*The “base salary range” provided above is a good faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position in the specified markets. Ventura Foods reserves the right to pay outside of the given range based on a variety of factors including but not limited to: candidate skills and experience, complexity of the job, budgetary factors, and location/geography. Ventura Foods conducts regular reviews of compensation ranges and therefore reserves the right to alter this range at any given time.

Physical Demands:
All jobs require sufficient physical strength and dexterity to perform the required task(s) and typically also require at a minimum: intermittent sitting, standing, walking, climbing, squatting, kneeling, pushing, and pulling. Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 50 pounds or more with assistance may also be required. Please see the job description for specific requirements.

Work Environment:

Please see the job description for specific requirements of the position for which you are applying.

Typical shifts are 8-12 hours per day. Additional unscheduled time after hours and on weekends may also be required. Employees must be willing and able to wear personal protective equipment as required by Company policy and/or legal requirements. In addition, certain jobs may require employees to:

• Work outside and/or in adverse temperatures which could include extreme heat, cold, and humidity;
• Be exposed to vibrations, chemicals used in operations, fumes and food allergens (may include soy, dairy and other allergens); and
• Be required to work in confined and dark spaces, and at heights in excess of 18 feet.

Diversity & Inclusion:
Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive environment in which all employees are treated with respect is evident in our company culture and values. We believe that fostering an environment of inclusion and a focus on diversity across our organization is vital to attracting top talent, driving innovation, and meeting the high expectations of our customers in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.

Ventura Foods is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.