Costing Manager

Duties And Responsibilities

• Standard Costing & Inventory Valuation
• Develop, implement, and maintain a consistent standard cost framework across all sites and products.
• Lead annual standard cost roll processes and periodic cost updates.
• Analyze cost variances (PPV, material usage, labor, overhead) and partner with operations to understand root causes and drive improvements.
• Develop an annual or recurring cost review process to report on cost variances with key business leaders.
• Own inventory valuation accuracy and cost revaluation processes, ensuring proper accounting treatment.
• Support internal controls around inventory and costing.
• ERP & Systems Integration
• Partner closely with IT during the continued rollout and optimization of IQMS to ensure accurate configuration and master data alignment.
• Ensure standard cost structures and inventory processes are implemented consistently across all sites.
• Contribute to system enhancements and testing related to costing and inventory functionality.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Build tools and processes to standardize cost rollups, BOM reviews, and routing validations.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to understand product economics and provide end-to-end margin visibility.
• Analyze and explain margin trends, highlighting product-level performance and profitability drivers.
• Support new product development with cost modelling and scenario planning as needed by the business.
• Develop tools and dashboards for cost and margin insights to support decision-making.

Key Skills And Attributes

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, management information systems or related field.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing finance or cost accounting, ideally in a multi-site environment.
• Deep understanding of standard costing principles, inventory accounting, and variance analysis.
• Understanding of US GAAP strongly preferred.
• Experience working in ERP systems, IQMS/DelmiaWorks is a plus.
• Strong Excel and data analysis skills, Power BI or similar tools is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, strong interpersonal skills are a must, as well as willingness to accept and task ownership of new responsibilities in a fast-growing environment.
• A working knowledge of MS Word, and Outlook, and the ability to multi-task with moderate supervision.
• Curious mindset with a drive for process improvement and systems thinking.