Cost Accountant

Responsible for the ongoing analysis of process constraints, target costing projects, margin analysis, and tracing costs back to underlying activities. Support Manager in preparing budgets and rolling forecasts, loading and unloading of costs and expenses to correct projects / jobs, participate in the audit program to facilitate the finalization of financial statements, inventory management, costing and finance projects reporting

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Costing and pricing

• Develop and maintain standard costs of finished goods and production components
• Stay abreast of best cost matrices and trends in the packaging industry and advice management of same
• Pricing / costing of new and existing products and submit to GM and FM for review
• Managing price revision cycle, ensuring timely and accurate price update
• Close coordination with project manager and sales team
• Monitor key customer / product profitability, perform analysis to identify profit improvement opportunities and work cross functionally to monetize the ideas and define corrective actions to drive profit
• Responsible for tracking value generated by Cost Improvement & Value Generation activities. Identify value opportunities and cost leakages
• Develop and implement tools and processes to guarantee the maintenance of the account profitability as per contractual agreement. Including the reflection of cost variations in material and conversion, in the regularly updated price lists
• Overall responsibility of product and customer portfolio analysis. Proactively foster initiatives for portfolio optimization and support key account financial reviews
• Capex investment preparation and initial assessment against Company's KPI's

Process continuous improvement

Management reports

Requirements

Education / Qualifications

Experience

Functional Skills & Specific Knowledge

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