Cost Analyst - Halifax, Canada - High Liner Foods

High Liner Foods

Verified Company

Halifax, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Cost Analyst - Halifax, NS/ Lunenburg, NS

Job Summary:

This position operates within the FP&A team reporting to the Supervisor, Cost Accounting.

This role creates and maintains key product costing data, including maintaining accurate product costing, developing new product costs, participate in quarterly and annual budget cost updates, and other cost accounting functions as assigned.

This position also maintains accurate costs and purchasing burdens for all procured products as well as raw materials and finished products.

Preferably, the position will be based out of the Halifax or Lunenburg office.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop new product costs following HLFs process in collaboration with various departments.
Responsible for the setup and maintenance of all manufactured and procured finished products, including developing bills of materials, at the Branch Plant level.
Responsible for updates to bills of materials resulting from engineering and production changes, ensuring proper audit trails are followed and documented.
As part of the team, responsible for quarterly cost updates including updating cost component data at the branch plant level in addition to providing analysis and interpretation of costs to users.
Participate on new product project teams and manage the product costing process and cost analysis as required.
Assist with the continuous improvement of the manufacturing/cost enterprise system through innovative reporting, system improvement and data integrity.
The incumbent must strive for continuous improvement in the company's data collection and conversion processes to improve both the effectiveness and efficiency of the information and provide advice and recommendations designed to enhance the costing process.

Qualifications:

Business degree or relevant experience.
Excellent analytical skills and the ability to meet constant deadlines in a fastpaced environment.
Attention to detail is critical.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to work with nonfinancial personnel.
Experience working in a team environment with the desire to seek continuous improvement.
Ensure controls and documentation requirements are followed.

Preferred but not required:

Experience using JD Edwards and business intelligence systems.
Previous costing experience in a manufacturing environment

We offer a
Flexible Hybrid Work Model where corporate office employees have the flexibility to choose a minimum of two office days per week, with the option to work wherever they prefer (office or remote) for the remainder of the week.

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