Sr. Inventory Cost Accountant

HF Foods Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HFFG), headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a leading distributor of international foodservice solutions to Asian restaurants and other businesses across the United States. With 15 distribution centers strategically located throughout the nation, HF Foods Group aims to supply the increasing demand for Asian American restaurant cuisine. Position Summary This role is based at the Company’s Powder Springs, Georgia facility and serves as the financial owner of that operation.

It combines accounting responsibility for inventory and operations with an active cost stewardship mandate: reviewing the entire operating expense base of the warehouse, questioning spending directly with operations management, and identifying and eliminating inefficiency. The position is expected to be visible on the warehouse floor and in operating discussions, not confined to the monthly close process.

It should be comfortable holding a position with facility leadership when the numbers do not support a decision, and equally comfortable being the person who explains why a cost moved. Beyond location-level ownership, the role contributes to the Company’s overall month-end close, preparing and reviewing journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules that feed consolidated reporting.

As a public company, the Company requires the role to operate within a documented control environment and to support quarterly external reporting and audit. This is a hands-on individual contributor position with functional ownership rather than supervisory responsibility. Once established in the role, the position is expected to extend to the review of inventory and operations accounting at the Company’s two other east coast facilities.

Key Responsibilities Inventory Accounting and Valuation Own the perpetual-to-general-ledger inventory reconciliation for the Powder Springs facility; investigate, quantify, and resolve variances on a defined cadence. Maintain the inventory valuation methodology, including capitalization of landed costs (freight-in, duty, customs, brokerage) and maintenance of standard or average cost. Calculate and support reserves for shrink, spoilage, damage, short-dated product, and slow-moving or obsolete inventory; document methodology, assumptions, and period-over-period changes.

Review item master and cost file changes for accounting accuracy and maintain controls over cost change activity. Warehouse Operating Cost Ownership This is the defining responsibility of the role. The position owns the full operating cost base of the facility and is expected to actively challenge it rather than simply report it. Own every category of warehouse and distribution operating expense, including warehouse and driver labor, overtime and temporary labor, fleet and fuel, third-party freight, refrigeration and utilities, occupancy and equipment leases, repairs and maintenance, sanitation, packaging and supplies, waste disposal, and safety and claims costs.

Review all facility spending on a recurring basis and question expenses directly with operations management — including approved and recurring spend that has not been revisited — rather than accepting prior-period run rates as a baseline. Prepare and review facility-level accruals across all of the above categories and ensure period costs are recorded in the correct period. Build and maintain unit-cost metrics that make inefficiency visible: cost per case, cost per delivery, cost per stop, labor hours per case, overtime as a percentage of total labor, fuel and miles per route, and energy cost per cubic foot of cold storage.

Investigate every material budget-to-actual and period-over-period variance to root cause with the responsible manager, and document both the driver and the agreed corrective action. Identify, quantify, and track a pipeline of cost reduction and efficiency opportunities, reporting realized savings against identified opportunities. Provide independent