Cost Accountant

Auckland I I Temporary

Create job alert

2025 Employment Report

Register with us

Outsourced HR Solutions

Cost Accountant

Cost Accountant – High-Growth Food Business
Location: Mangere, Auckland (car parking on site)
Type: Temporary with a potential for the role to move permanent
Hours: 8:30 – 5pm (can be flexible) with 1 day work from home
Assignment Length: Start ASAP for a couple of months whilst going through their recruitment process could also be a open to longer assignment length.
Join a value led organisation with a dominant 70–80% market share in its category across ANZ. With an ambitious growth strategy, including a recent partnership with global influencer and key acquisitions, the business is looking to triple in size over the next 3–5 years.

The Role:
As a Cost Accountant, you’ll support an evolving finance structure and play a vital role in enhancing visibility between finance and operations. Based on-site in Mangere, you’ll be working closely with supply chain and production teams, reporting into the broader Sydney-based finance function. This is a rare opportunity to step into a critical operational finance role at a pivotal time in the company’s growth.

Key Responsibilities:

Maintain accurate standard costing by monitoring product, raw material, and overhead costs
Prepare timely costings for new products and analyse weekly variances to standards
Conduct margin and profitability analysis across product lines, identifying cost-saving opportunities
Manage inventory valuation in collaboration with warehouse and production teams
Support month-end close, budgeting, and forecasting with relevant cost data and insights
Partner with operations, procurement, and logistics to optimise cost flows and improve efficiency

The Ideal Candidate:

A qualified or part qualified Accountant with proven cost accounting experience
Ideally you will come from a Food production background, pharmaceutical or FMCG
Proficient in Business Central (preferred) or SAP
Comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving processes
Strong analytical skills and process orientation
Collaborative, but also confident working independently
Exposure to Power BI, CoPilot, or Microsoft 365 is a bonus

Why Join?

Be part of a people-first, high-performance culture
Gain exposure to a business scaling rapidly across Asia
Work under genuinely supportive, generous leadership
Join a business where your voice is heard, and your work makes an impact
Enjoy a vibrant team environment with cross-generational collaboration

How to apply:
Ready to step into a role where you can truly influence the bottom line while the business scales? Hit apply on this page or contact Kirsty on 09 869 6255 if you would like further information.

Operating for over 20 years in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, people2people, Edge Recruitment, and Frog Recruitment are an award-winning recruitment group and HR solutions provider. As an inclusive workforce, we welcome everyone and encourage our employees, clients, and candidates to showcase their authentic selves.

Should you require reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, we encourage you to make a request by phoning the above-mentioned recruitment consultant to discuss. In response to these requests, we will collaborate closely with you to implement the appropriate adjustments.