Join the Animal Nutrition accounting team as a Cost Accountant and take ownership of cost accounting activities across a diverse network of operational locations and partners. In this high-impact role, you will lead complex daily, weekly, and monthly accounting processes—including journal entries, reconciliations, cost analysis, and inventory resolution—while serving as a key resource for cross-functional partners.
This role is located at our Corporate Headquarters in Arden Hills, MN (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in office each week)
What You'll Do
· Work with key partners on product cost set-up, work order completions, sales and receiving corrections, freight issues, and cycle count reconciliation
· Evaluate, analyze, and resolve product costing to provide accurate reporting.
· Update standard costing to new calculated weighted average cost based on weekly activity, and review and analyze costing variances.
· Evaluate and correct general ledger activity and balances to ensure accurate gross margin reporting.
· Analyze and explain COGS variances month over month
· Execute month-end close activities including journal entries, account reconciliations
What You Bring
· Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required
· 1-2 years’ experience in accounting, ideally cost accounting highly desired
· Proficient with ERP accounting applications (JDE or SAP preferred) and Microsoft products. Advanced excel required.
What Makes You Successful
· A solid understanding of inventory and cost of goods sold financial drivers.
· Strong analytical instincts and the ability to draw insights from variances and trends.
· A collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for working in a team-oriented environment.
· Confidence navigating financial systems, improving processes, and contributing to project initiatives.
· A proven ability to build trusted relationships across functions.
$61,360-$92,040. In most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges.
About Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
We provide a broad portfolio of benefits to keep you and your family at your best. Land O'Lakes is Where Your Future Takes Root.
Land O’Lakes and our global entities support diversity in employment practices.
Neither Land O’Lakes, nor its affiliates or search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 1-2 years' experience in accounting (cost accounting highly desired)
- Proficient with ERP accounting applications
- Experience with JDE or SAP
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with month-end close, journal entries, and account reconciliations
- Understanding of inventory and cost of goods sold financial drivers
Land O'Lakes, Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include automatic company contributions to retirement savings and additional support via 401(k) and HSA contributions. Legacy eligibility for a pension plan adds further long‑term security for some employees.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, vision, and mental health support with confidential counseling and free therapy or coaching sessions for employees and dependents. Benefits begin on the start date, removing prior waiting periods.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and paid leaves cover disability, parental, maternity, and caregiving needs. Caregiver and parental leave policies have been expanded to cover broader family situations, including foster placements prior to adoption.
Land O'Lakes, Inc. Insights
What We Do
Land O’Lakes, Inc. is a 100-year-old farmer- and retailer-owned cooperative originally formed with the purpose of working together to create new market opportunities. Fast forward to today and we’ve built on that uniting spirit, developing a comprehensive and leading view of agriculture while maintaining an unwavering commitment to delivering strong annual performance and long-term, shared success with our member-owners. Land O’Lakes believes farmers are the entrepreneurs who truly change the world for the better. By working together with our member-owners, we can continue to strengthen our system, champion farming’s true potential and place our farmer- and retail-owners at the heart of creating a better world for all.
