Job description

About Paw Revolution

Paw Revolution is a growing pet food company focused on producing high-quality, nutritious products for pets. We are looking for an experienced, detail-oriented Accountant who understands the financial and operational needs of a food manufacturing business, preferably within the pet food industry.

This role is ideal for someone who is strong in day-to-day accounting, monthly reporting, inventory control, cost of sales calculations, and manufacturing cost analysis. The Accountant will play a key role in maintaining accurate financial records, monitoring inventory movement, and helping management understand the company’s key cost drivers.

Role Overview

The Manufacturing Accountant will be responsible for managing the company’s accounting records, preparing monthly financial reports, maintaining QuickBooks, calculating cost of sales, and overseeing inventory-related record keeping.

The ideal candidate must have prior experience in food manufacturing and should be comfortable working with recipes, ingredients, production inputs, finished goods, treats, packaging materials, and inventory movements. Experience in pet food manufacturing is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

Accounting & Financial Reporting

• Manage the company’s day-to-day accounting activities.

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records in QuickBooks.

• Prepare monthly financial statements, including profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow reports.

• Reconcile bank accounts, supplier accounts, customer accounts, and internal ledgers.

• Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable.

• Record invoices, payments, expenses, purchase orders, and other accounting entries accurately.

• Ensure all financial transactions are properly categorized and supported with documentation.

• Assist management with budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.

• Support year-end closing and provide required documentation to external accountants, auditors, or tax advisors.

Cost of Sales & Manufacturing Accounting

• Calculate and monitor cost of sales for the company’s products.

• Track the cost of ingredients, treats, recipes, packaging materials, and other production inputs.

• Maintain accurate product costing based on recipes, ingredient usage, yield, wastage, and production volumes.

• Review and update product costs regularly to reflect changes in ingredient prices, supplier costs, packaging costs, and other manufacturing expenses.

• Analyze gross margins by product, recipe, treat category, or production batch.

• Identify cost variances and report key findings to management.

• Support pricing decisions by providing accurate cost and margin analysis.

Inventory Record-Keeping & Stock Control

• Manage the record-keeping of the company’s inventory, including ingredients, packaging materials, finished goods, treats, and other production materials.

• Maintain accurate ingredient “in and out” records.

• Monitor stock movements from purchase to production to finished goods.

• Ensure inventory is recorded and monitored using FIFO principles.

• Track raw materials, semi-finished goods, finished products, packaging, labels, and other manufacturing supplies.

• Coordinate with the production and operations teams to verify stock usage and production output.

• Monitor stock levels and flag shortages, overstocking, expiry risks, wastage, or unusual usage patterns.

• Assist with regular physical stock counts and inventory reconciliations.

• Investigate and resolve inventory discrepancies between physical stock and accounting records.

• Maintain proper documentation for stock adjustments, damaged goods, expired materials, and production wastage.

Cost Monitoring & Business Analysis

• Monitor the company’s key cost drivers, including ingredients, recipes, treats, packaging, labor-related production costs, wastage, and supplier price changes.

• Prepare regular reports on cost trends and margin performance.

• Help management understand which products, recipes, or categories are most profitable.

• Identify areas where costs can be reduced or better controlled.

• Work closely with production and procurement teams to improve cost visibility.

• Provide financial insights to support operational and strategic decisions.

Excel, Reporting & Workflow Automation

• Use Microsoft Excel at an advanced level to manage, analyze, and report financial, inventory, and cost data.

• Create and maintain pivot tables, formulas, reconciliations, trackers, and financial analysis reports.

• Build and improve spreadsheet-based tools for inventory monitoring, cost of sales calculations, recipe costing, supplier cost tracking, and monthly reporting.

• Use AI tools and other automation platforms to simplify complex workflows, reduce manual data entry, improve accuracy, and increase reporting efficiency.

• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive accounting, inventory, payroll, and reporting tasks.

• Support management by creating clear, organized reports and dashboards that summarize financial performance, inventory movement, product costing, and key cost drivers.

Payroll

• Manage payroll processing accurately and on time.

• Maintain payroll records, employee payment details, deductions, benefits, and related documentation.

• Record payroll entries in QuickBooks and reconcile payroll-related accounts.

• Ensure payroll expenses are properly allocated and reflected in the company’s financial statements.

• Coordinate with management and HR, where applicable, to ensure accurate employee compensation records.

• Support compliance with applicable payroll, tax, and labor-related reporting requirements.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of accounting experience.

• Proven experience in food manufacturing accounting is required.

• Experience in pet food manufacturing is highly preferred.

• Strong working knowledge of QuickBooks.

• Experience preparing monthly financial statements.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required.

• Strong experience using pivot tables, formulas, lookups, data analysis tools, and structured spreadsheets.

• Experience using AI tools and automation tools to simplify accounting, reporting, inventory, or operational workflows.

• Payroll processing experience is required.

• Ability to use technology to improve accuracy, reduce manual work, and create more efficient financial processes.

• Strong understanding of cost of sales, inventory accounting, and manufacturing cost control.

• Experience with FIFO inventory tracking and stock reconciliation.

• Ability to work with recipes, ingredients, production records, and bill of materials-style costing.

• Strong Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets skills.

• Good understanding of accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank reconciliations, and general ledger accounting.

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.

• Ability to work closely with finance, production, procurement, and management teams.

• Strong organizational and documentation skills.

• Ability to identify accounting errors, cost variances, and inventory discrepancies.

Preferred Skills

• Previous experience in a pet food, food production, FMCG, bakery, meal prep, or similar manufacturing environment.

• Experience creating financial models, costing templates, inventory trackers, and management dashboards.

• Experience automating workflows using tools such as AI assistants, spreadsheet automation, QuickBooks integrations, or other business software.

• Strong ability to organize large amounts of financial, inventory, payroll, and production data into clear reports.

• Comfortable reviewing existing processes and recommending more efficient ways to complete recurring accounting tasks.

• Experience setting up or improving inventory tracking systems.

• Knowledge of batch costing, recipe costing, and production yield analysis.

• Experience monitoring raw material expiry dates and wastage.

• Familiarity with VAT/tax filing requirements, where applicable.

• Ability to create simple management reports and dashboards.

• Experience improving accounting processes and internal controls.

Key Success Measures

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Deliver accurate monthly financial reports on time.

• Maintain clean and reliable QuickBooks records.

• Accurately calculate cost of sales and product margins.

• Keep inventory records accurate and reconciled.

• Ensure ingredient and material movements are properly tracked.

• Monitor FIFO compliance and stock usage.

• Identify cost increases, wastage, and margin risks early.

• Provide management with clear, useful financial and cost analysis.

Skills

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a hands-on accountant who enjoys working beyond basic bookkeeping. They should be highly proficient in QuickBooks and Excel, with strong experience using pivot tables, formulas, and structured reporting tools.

They should also be comfortable using AI and automation tools to simplify complex workflows, reduce repetitive manual tasks, and improve the accuracy and speed of accounting, payroll, inventory, costing, and management reporting.

In addition to strong financial accounting skills, the candidate should understand payroll, manufacturing cost control, inventory movements, FIFO tracking, recipe costing, ingredient usage, and the key cost drivers of a food manufacturing business. Direct experience in pet food manufacturing is highly preferred.