Cost Analyst

Griffith Foods is a global manufacturer of food products.  We provide a wide range of taste and texture components for food industry customers throughout the world.  Our products include seasoning blends, dry mixes, coating systems, dough blends, crumbs, flavors, sauces and food bases that are used in an extensive variety of application from snack foods and processed meat and poultry to ready meals. Our customers include food processors, restaurant operators and grocery retailers.  While our name may not be familiar to consumers, our products are key components of foods offered by many of the world’s best-known companies.

Position: Cost Analyst

Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León

Summary:

• As a Cost Analyst you'll have an opportunity to work as part of a close-knit, dynamic team, handle day-to-day cost accounting functions and support special projects. Your 4+ years of cost accounting experience in manufacturing accounting and top-notch Excel skills will lay the foundation for your success.

Major duties & Responsibilities:

• Analyze manufacturing costs and prepare regular reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs.
• Establish and maintain the standard costing model for both raw materials and manufacturing and update them as appropriate, ensuring actual and projected costs are correct, create cost-benefit analyses.
• Make estimates of new and proposed product costs.
• Provide management with reports that specify and compare factors that affect prices and profitability of products or services.
• Perform physical inventories and monitor the cycle count program.
• Oversee item master maintenance activities and activate new products; validating setup, routes and costs.
• Review MOQ to ensure it reflects current production levels.
• Strong understanding of PPV, standard costing, inventory revaluation and reconciliations.
• Review, investigate and identify corrective action for production order variances.
• Month end close — review, analyze and report on inventory, direct and indirect labor, overhead costs and related variances.
• Compile and analyze freight expenses, setting standard freight rates and identifying areas for improvement.
• Maintain and review the general ledger and reconcile balance sheets accounts, provide meaningful comments on the results, recommend solutions to improve the process.
• Assist in month end journal entries, year-end audits and annual operating budgets.
• Other tasks are to be discussed as the business grows.

Knowledge and Experience:

• BA in Public Accountant.
• 4+ years' work experience in Cost Accounting, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, specifically in Excel (Intermediate to advanced skills formulas, database tools, etc).
• Advanced English.
• Knowledge of ERP system would be considered an asset.