Cost Accountant

The Opportunity

This rewarding and rare opportunity presents a successful candidate to work with a dynamic, supportive team with coaching and mentoring environment. There are real opportunities for future development and progression – this really could be a move towards building a career with the leader in Food Industry.

Position Description

As a Cost Accountant, you will play a vital role in assisting senior management with making pricing and cost related decisions. You will also be involved in :

• Application of Costing Model to new products proposed by Sales and R&D
• Maintenance of Costing Model to ensure accuracy of costing to standards.
• Monitoring cost variances
• Analyzing pricing and margins of products and defining optimal price points
• Maintenance of material master and bill of material in the ERP system and ensuring accuracy of the data
• Calculating and implementing cost standards for materials, labor, and overhead
• Preparing cost of goods sold and production reports
• Analyzing various product and operational costs
• Performing other month-end close activities
• Performing annual standard cost updates as appropriate
• Assisting in the budget process – cost of sales and other expense accounts as assigned
• Completing the annual inventory standard re-cost
• Other Accounting Duties as directed

Experience

As the successful candidate, you will have superior communication skills, including excellent written and verbal skills. You will also have :