Senior Cost Accountant

The Senior Cost Accountant owns the economic truth of Empower’s manufacturing and compounding operations at scale. This role ensures product cost, margin, and inventory economics are accurate, timely, decision-grade, and audit-defensible across the largest 503A and 503B platform in the country. The position directly enables pricing discipline, capacity decisions, regulatory confidence, and patient access by eliminating ambiguity from cost data and translating complexity into action. Operating with minimal oversight, this individual builds scalable systems, applies artificial intelligence to accelerate execution, and delivers insights fast enough to influence real-time decisions. Success is measured by decision velocity, margin protection, audit resilience, and the durability of cost systems under hyper-growth. This role is designed for a high-agency individual contributor who expects ownership, thrives under pressure, and views accuracy, speed, and accountability as simultaneous requirements rather than tradeoffs.

Own Cost Truth at Scale

• Own end-to-end product costing across materials, labor, overhead, and allocations, delivering accurate, timely cost positions leaders trust for pricing, sourcing, and capacity decisions.
• Investigate cost and inventory variances at the transaction level, quantify financial impact, and drive corrective actions through operations with validated follow-through.

Protect and Expand Margin

• Build and maintain SKU, formulation, and customer margin models that surface profit leakage, upside opportunities, and explicit tradeoffs.
• Enforce pricing discipline by embedding cost guardrails, assumptions, and post-launch margin measurement into pricing workflows.

Build Systems That Survive Hyper-Growth

• Design scalable costing workflows, controls, and templates that eliminate recurring errors and reduce dependency on manual intervention.
• Own cost and inventory data integrity within ERP systems, validating data lineage from production through financial reporting.

Use Artificial Intelligence as Force Multiplier

• Build and maintain AI-enabled automations that accelerate reconciliations, variance detection, and anomaly identification while preserving auditability.
• Apply AI to synthesize complex datasets into forward-looking insights that improve pricing, sourcing, and operational decisions.

Build and Scale Individual Impact

• Own complex cost initiatives end-to-end, setting priorities, milestones, and metrics independently while communicating risks early.
• Establish personal operating systems, documentation, and tools that make high performance repeatable and scalable over time.

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel in order to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. Employees are regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

• Deep expertise in cost accounting, inventory valuation, and margin analysis within complex manufacturing or regulated operating environments.
• Advanced capability with ERP systems, data modeling, and analytical tools, with demonstrated ownership of data integrity and workflows.
• Practical application of AI, automation, or scripting to replace manual accounting work and improve decision quality.
• Ability to translate complex cost drivers into clear, actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key Competencies

• Customer Focus: Ability to build strong customer relationships and deliver customer centric solutions.
• Optimizes Work Processes: Know the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources effectively and efficiently.
• Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quality, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments and objectives.
• Situational Adaptability: Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match shifting demands of different situations.
• Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Values

• People: Our people define who we are as a company, and we believe that understanding and addressing the needs of our team, clients, and community is fundamental to fostering a culture of support and growth.
• Quality: Quality stands at the core of our mission, reflecting our commitment to excellence in every medication we produce.
• Service: We are here to serve others. Every interaction with our patients, providers, employees and other stakeholders comes from a place of service.
• Innovation: By continuously exploring new methodologies and embracing technology, we ensure that every solution we offer is at the forefront of pharmaceutical care.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required.
• 4+ years of progressive cost, inventory, or manufacturing accounting experience in high-growth environments.
• Strong foundational knowledge of US GAAP and financial reporting concepts, with a strong preference for experience in inventory, cost accounting, or manufacturing-related accounting processes.
• Experience working with ERP systems and accounting tools; strong interest in automation, AI, and rethinking traditional accounting processes preferred.
• Demonstrated ownership of cost systems, margin analysis, or inventory economics that materially influenced business decisions.
• Proven ability to operate independently, deliver decision-grade insights quickly, and build scalable systems.

We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications. Learn more: https://careers.empowerpharmacy.com/benefits/