Senior Costing Analyst

Essential Responsibilities

• Analyze existing standard costs and variances, determine drivers of variances and deviations to standards, and provide standards changes to controllers and management for review.
• Afford assistance in annual global costing activities including consolidation and analysis of global costing, identification and correction of costing errors/standards, and preparation of standards change walks and presentation to upper management.
• Afford assistance in overall testing and maintenance of costing functionality in SAP including testing and validation of proposed system changes and recommendations for costing enhancements.
• Afford assistance in analysis, development, and testing of standard cost for new SAP sites including setting cost center rates, overall cost center structure, and final standard cost setting.
• Deliver SAP costing training to new SAP sites, and new operations analysts and controllers.
• Perform month-end close and costing activities for Tech center.
• Lead cycle counting reviews, testing and on-site observations.
• Enforce costing polices and controls and related SOX audit documentation.
• Provide other ad hoc reporting and financial analysis as necessary to support the organization.

Technical/Functional Skills

• Strong analytical thinking for variance and root cause analyses
• Proven SAP and Business Intelligence data skills
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel
• Effective communication and team skills

Preferred

• Prior cost accounting experience

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance (or related field) and 4 years of Accounting or Finance experience, or
• Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance (or related field) and 1 year of Accounting or Finance experience.

This position may require access to United States export controlled technical data (“CTD”) and hardware under the Departments of US State (ITAR) and/or Commerce (EAR). Eligible candidates are; US Citizens, Green Card holders, Asylees or others eligible to receive US export license authorizations. Candidate must be authorized to work in the US. All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.