Sr. Cost Analyst

Operating Company: Spark
Location: Mexicali,Baja California,MX
Date Posted: August 15, 2024
Req Number: R5020666

**Position Overview**:
**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Manages the general ledger and generates all the necessary reports for the month-end close
- Ensures enforcement and implementation of related policies, compliance with laws, and conducts internal and external audits
- Generates and analyzes daily reports, including absorption, scrap, revenue, efficiency, and other manufacturing variance reports.
- Prepares variance analysis compared with the budget and standards, explaining the main causes.
- Responsible for documenting and maintaining systems, processes, and procedures in Cost Accounting and general accounting
- Ensures adherence to related policies and upholds compliance with applicable laws and internal controls
- Coordinates the accurate and timely bookkeeping of financial transactions with an accounting firm
- Ensures other key financial controls are performed regularly, including, but not limited to margin hold process, credit notes’ approval, preparation of weekly trackers, and approval of inventory adjustments.
- Preparing cost of goods sold and production reports emphasizing historical results, budgets, forecasts, and trends.
- Participate in month-end accounting close
- Audit daily production reports
- Support on the monthly forecast and annual budget process
- Analyze the different expense accounts during & at the end of the month, providing this information to the Plant Controller.
- Accounts Payable activity as needed
- Labor and OVH rate calculation
- Provide day-to-day business decision support to operations and general managers on various financial topics
- Monthly balance sheet reconciliation
- Attend and provide information for external auditors
- Conduct and report results of all special projects assigned by the Plant Controller and/or self-initiated on a timely basis along with proper conclusions and recommendations
- Documentation of systems, processes, and procedures used in Cost Accounting and general accounting
- Provides guidelines for standard cost approaches used in business decisions; establishes and monitors cost reduction programs.
- Calculates and sets up annual standard costs, ensures updates for new products and monthly variance analysis; and elaborates monthly sales cost calculation.
- Collaborates with other departments to integrate financial management with other business operations
- Supporting the Global Finance Operations, Planning, Consolidation, Reporting, and Analysis Processes including developing and maintaining Operations Financial Packages for all our Operating sites
- Recommending changes to the company’s processes and policies to reduce cost and maximize profit

Advising executives and upper management on appropriate costing based on financial data

**Job Requirements**:
**Most Important Competencies**:

- **Teamwork** - must be willing and able to work closely with other departments, peers, etc.
- **Ability to influence others** - must be able to inform, convince, and persuade others to action on key initiatives
- **Results orientation** - must deliver results
- **Analysis** - strong analytics and proactively diving deeper into understanding
- **Environment** - the ability to work in a fast-paced, challenging, and ambiguous environment
- **Reporting** - streamline current reporting processes
- **Communication **- must be able to effectively communicate in both written and verbal forms

**Education/Experience/Requirements**:

- Knowledge of cost accounting, planning, budgeting, inventory management
- Strong in analytical and problem-solving,
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Experience in Manufacturing.
- HFM knowledge.
- P&L experience
- Being fluent in English, as a second language is an advantage
- Excellent communication skills across all levels of the organization
- ERP Oracle
- Strong analytical skills using Excel.
- Use of TRESS/payroll system/social security
- Experience in manufacturing upstream planning

**Personal Trait Profile**:

- Self-sufficient.
- Enthusiastic.
- Lives the “continuous improvement” philosophy and can drive change successfully.
- Logical and creative thinker.
- Confident.
- Ability to influence others - credible.
- Good communication skills, written and verbal.
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.

**Travel**:
Approximately 10% or more travel in North and Central America

**Operating Company**:
Spark

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