Cost Accountant

Full-time

Description

Position Summary:

Conversio Health is seeking a Cost Accountant with expertise in inventory costing and supply planning for forecasting purposes. This position plays a key role in the accounting operations of the company, with an emphasis on cost-of-goods-sold (COGS) analysis, supply chain support, and financial reporting. The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of full-cycle accounting, inventory controls, and the ability to deliver insights that support supply planning and decision-making.

The Cost Accountant must be a hands-on, detail-oriented, and strategically minded individual who thrives in a fast-paced, mission-driven healthcare environment. The role requires building collaborative relationships across departments to improve inventory tracking, forecasting accuracy, and overall financial performance.

This is a full-time, onsite position at our San Luis Obispo, California office that reports to the Director of Finance.

Salary range for this position is $26.44 - $33.65. Expected starting hourly rate is $26.44 - $29.80.

Key Responsibilities:

Inventory Costing & Supply Planning Support

• Support inventory costing processes, including accurate tracking of raw materials, compounded medications, and finished goods
• Calculate and analyze monthly COGS, including reconciliations between purchase activity, production usage, and sales
• Assist with supply chain planning through timely inventory reporting and cost analysis to inform purchasing and forecasting decisions by collaborating with key business partners
• Collaborate with operations and procurement to enhance visibility into inventory turnover, obsolescence, and safety stock requirements
• Prepare monthly inventory valuation and ensure compliance with accounting standards

General Accounting & Financial Reporting

• Month-end close process for inventory and COGS accounts, including journal entries and reconciliations
• Support full-cycle accounting including AP, AR, Fixed Assets, and GL accounts
• Support and assist in analyzing financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow)
• Track and reconcile capital expenditures, including asset depreciation
• Prepare monthly labor allocation costs to appropriate cost centers
• Serve as the finance team’s point of contact for internal quarterly/annual inventory cycle counts
• Perform variance analysis on across accounting periods and key ratios

Ad Hoc Support

• Provide backup support for AP, cash forecasting, and vendor management activities
• Support projects, analysis or requests associated with key areas of responsibility

Requirements

Skills & Competencies Expected:

• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, sumifs, charts, financial modeling, etc.)
• Proficient in QuickBooks or equivalent accounting ERP
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, especially cost and inventory accounting principles
• Effective communicator with cross-functional collaboration skills
• Strong time management and ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment
• Uphold high ethical standards and maintain confidentiality of sensitive data
• Experience in a healthcare, pharmacy, or regulated industry is a plus

Education & Experience Expectations:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field preferred
• Minimum 3+ years of accounting experience, with preferred experience in cost accounting
• Experience with forecasting, supply chain collaboration, and manufacturing or healthcare inventory processes is a plus

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Full benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)
• Company-matched 401(K) plan
• Paid Time Off

Location: San Luis Obispo, CA.

About Conversio Health:

Conversio Health is an innovative chronic condition management company that serves as a key link between the patient, the physician, and the health plan. It has developed a completely new approach for chronic respiratory condition management that combines proprietary technologies, customized medication therapies, with a multidisciplinary care team to deliver improved clinical and financial outcomes, and higher patient satisfaction. Its unique, high touch pharmacy model provides home delivery services, personalized patient education and support, and disease progression and medication effectiveness monitoring to prevent unnecessary hospitalizations before they occur. Conversio enables a higher level of care coordination across the care continuum and has a proven track record of lowering its health plan partners’ drug cost and improving clinical outcomes for thousands of patients with COPD and Asthma across the United States.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions:

• Ability to sit, talk and hear consistently
• Ability to stand, walk, and use hands to handle or reach occasionally. Ability to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

Salary Description

$26.44 - $33.65