Senior Cost Accountant

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.

About the role

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.

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.

Requirements

Ideal candidates will have strong product costing, inventory accounting, and manufacturing or life sciences experience.

Pay

$100 to $105 per hour.

Schedule

Hybrid. Contract/Temporary assignment.

Benefits

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

Work Location: Princeton, NJ.