Cost Accounting Manager

About the role

The Cost Accounting Manager will lead critical cost accounting activities, serve as a subject matter expert, and partner cross-functionally to ensure cost accounting processes are accurate, controlled, efficient, and aligned with business needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end cost accounting readiness activities, including inventory consolidation, process order settlement, SKF/activity allocation readiness, manufacturing variance analysis, overhead absorption review, and close-related deliverables.
• Serve as a key SAP S/4HANA cost accounting subject matter expert, supporting product costing, cost center accounting, activity allocations, overhead allocations, settlement, inventory valuation, and manufacturing cost flows.
• Support the annual standard cost process, including cost roll preparation, activity and overhead rate development, SAP master data validation, and analysis of standard cost changes.
• Analyze manufacturing variances, inventory balances, cost absorption, settlement results, allocation outcomes, and related financial impacts.
• Partner with Accounting, FP&A, Manufacturing Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, and IT to resolve SAP issues, address close-related blockers, enhance reporting, and strengthen cost accounting processes.
• Leverage Hyperion/EPM, Smart View, SAP reporting tools, and Excel-based analytics to support financial reporting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting.
• Identify and implement process improvements across SAP cost accounting, inventory close, overhead allocation, master data, reporting automation, and close efficiency.
• Support internal controls, audit requests, accounting policy compliance, reconciliations, journal entries, and documentation related to cost accounting and inventory.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably within biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, medical devices, or another regulated industry.
• Deep hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC cost accounting functionality, particularly in Controlling, Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting, and manufacturing cost flows.
• Strong understanding of standard costing, inventory valuation, overhead allocation, cost absorption, process order settlement, and manufacturing variance analysis.
• Experience with SAP cost objects, cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, allocation cycles, process orders, production orders, material masters, BOMs, recipes, routings, and cost estimates.
• Experience with Hyperion, Oracle EPM, Essbase, Smart View, or similar planning and reporting tools.
• Broad knowledge of accounting principles beyond cost accounting, including month-end close, accruals, reconciliations, financial reporting, internal controls, and audit support.
• Demonstrated experience supporting SAP-related process improvements, system enhancements, reporting enhancements, or finance transformation initiatives.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree preferred (CPA, CMA, MBA).
• Experience in a GMP manufacturing environment.
• Experience with SAP Material Ledger, actual costing, product cost planning, cost component structures, allocation cycles, process orders, production orders, material masters, BOMs, recipes, routings, and cost estimates.
• Experience supporting annual standard cost cycles, new product costing, manufacturing network changes, site launches, or SAP process optimization initiatives.
• Experience partnering with IT or SAP functional teams on configuration, testing, master data governance, reporting, or system implementation projects.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with reporting automation, dashboards, or data visualization tools.

Skills

• Strong SAP cost accounting knowledge.
• Hyperion/EPM reporting skills.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Moderna Leadership Behaviors and Mindsets.

Benefits

• Competitive healthcare, plus voluntary benefit programs.
• A holistic approach to well-being, with access to fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support.
• Family planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown.
• Savings and investments to help you plan for the future.
• Location-specific perks and extras.

Pay & Benefits

The salary range for this role is $109,200.00 - $174,600.00. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An individual’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, performance, and business or organizational needs.

About Moderna

We are advancing messenger RNA (mRNA) science to create a new class of transformative medicines for patients. Moderna’s platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, providing the Company the capability to pursue in parallel a robust pipeline of new development candidates. Moderna is developing therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases and cardiovascular diseases, independently and with strategic collaborators.

Working Model

We believe an in-person culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of in-office collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70% in-office structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation, teamwork, and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn, contribute, and make a meaningful impact.

Equal Opportunities

We are committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, protected veteran status, race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry or citizenship, ethnicity, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law.