Long Island City, NY
On-site / Hybrid
FLSA Classification: Exempt
About Us
PML is a PE-backed contract manufacturer serving leading beauty and personal care brands. From formulation and filling to packaging and fulfillment, we produce color cosmetics, skincare, and personal care products across 3 manufacturing facilities. We're growing, and we're looking for a hands-on Senior Accountant to strengthen our finance function in a fast-paced, multi-plant manufacturing setting.
The Role
Reporting to the Controller, the Senior Accountant owns core areas of the monthly close and plays a central role in manufacturing cost accounting, inventory integrity, and financial reporting. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants exposure to the full cost cycle of a contract manufacturer — from raw materials and components through work-in-process to finished goods and customer profitability.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Own assigned areas of the month-end and year-end close, including journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations, meeting a tight close calendar
- Analyze plant and customer/contract profitability and partner with operations on margin drivers
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and maintain strong documentation and internal controls
- Reconcile and value inventory (raw materials, components, WIP, finished goods); investigate cycle-count and physical-inventory discrepancies and support reserve analysis
- Support the annual budget, forecasting, and standard cost setting process
- Assist with external audit, tax, and PE reporting deliverables, preparing schedules and responding to requests
- Assist with standard cost accounting: maintain BOMs and routings, execute standard cost rolls, and analyze purchase price, material usage, labor, and overhead variances
- Drive process improvements and help optimize use of the ERP system
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 4+ years of progressive accounting experience,
- Solid understanding of US GAAP and
- Strong ERP experience and advanced Excel skills
- - Detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and comfortable working across finance and operations
- CPA (or actively pursuing)
- Experience with manufacturing cost accounting
- Understanding standard costing in an inventory-intensive environment
- Experience in cosmetics, personal care, food, pharma, or another regulated manufacturing industry
- Experience with multi-plant or multi-entity operations
- Exposure to a private equity–backed or high-growth environment
- Primarily office-based work environment during regular business hours.
- Frequent use of a computer, phone, and standard office equipment.
- Ability to lift and carry up to 20 pounds (files, binders, or office materials).
- Ability to sit, stand, walk, bend, and reach as needed throughout the workday
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- 401K program
- The spirit of a startup with the security of an established, profitable industry leader
- The opportunity to make waves in a $250B industry
- Paid time off and company-observed holidays
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Prime Matter Labs is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Prime Matter Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Salary Range: $70,000 to $90,000.00
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 4+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Solid understanding of US GAAP
- Strong ERP experience
- Advanced Excel skills
- Detail-oriented and deadline-driven
- Comfortable working across finance and operations
- CPA or actively pursuing CPA
- Manufacturing cost accounting experience
- Understanding of standard costing in an inventory-intensive environment
- Experience in cosmetics, personal care, food, pharmaceutical, or another regulated manufacturing industry
- Experience with multi-plant or multi-entity operations
- Exposure to a private equity-backed or high-growth environment
What We Do
We’re Prime Matter Labs, a beauty and personal care contract manufacturer with 40 years of experience working with amazing brands to create award-winning products recognized by the media and loved by consumers. In partnership with our customers, we are taking the lead in the beauty and personal care industry by being innovative in the processes and technologies we use and the products we create together. We offer our customers a full set of end-to-end capabilities from concept development to shipping, with critical attention to the steps in between including formulation, testing, quality control, packaging, manufacturing, and filling. With customers across Indie, Emerging and Established brands, we work on a variety of projects including custom development, reverse engineering, stability and efficacy improvement, and formulation clean-up to meet natural and organic criteria. We consistently invest in R&D, technology, our facilities, and our team, to enhance our capabilities. Our R&D chemists have developed thousands of best-in-class skin, hair, body and sun care formulations, leveraging innovative technologies and ingredients. With one of the broadest sets of certifications and full in-house testing capabilities, our facility is one of the few in the country that can truly deliver your entire personal care line end-to-end. We deliver a level of service, support, and transparency unmatched in the industry, and our project management team can handle projects of any size or complexity with ease and meticulous precision. From idea to launch - as production partners, we want you to shine. To see open positions, please go to our website at: https://bit.ly/2TgRbY4 Signup for our monthly newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/hTcbqX Find all our social channels here: https://withkoji.com/@PrimeMatterLabs
