Sr. Cost Analyst

We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes a job summary and essential functions. We need headings:

for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include sections only when posting has real, specific content. No filler. We need to parse content. Job Summary: "The primary purpose of the position is to analyze data on manufacturing costs and recommend and make changes to standard costs that impact the pricing of products and labor for the facility. A key role is to ensure that inventory transactions, and subsequently inventory valuation, are accurate in terms of cost, quantity, purpose, and timeliness, and in doing so, ensuring that monthly results reported are accurate and timely." That's a description; could be "About the role" or "Job Summary". Use heading "About the role". Provide

. Essential Functions: list of duties. Should be under "Responsibilities" heading with

• . Need to extract each bullet. Essential Functions list (as given): - Analyzes data to formulate and recommend material, key or significant revisions or modifications with regard to the following: - Establish standard costs for manufactured items in the factory by working with engineering, production and purchasing to accurately distribute production costs. Part of this responsibility includes the ongoing review of manufacturing operations and analysis of variances. Discretion must be used to determine which variances are nominal and written off and which are significant enough to escalate the review to possibly require standard cost revision. - When standard costs are changed, determine and review inventory revaluation and its effect on financial results - Perform month-end close by reviewing general ledger, reconciling accounts and making journal entries. - Administer manufacturing activity and inventory levels at outside processing suppliers; discern when inventory adjustments and/or scrap needs to be recognized. - Investigate and resolve significant inventory discrepancies at outside processing suppliers. - Create, review and analyze BOMs and routings for new products by using standard times and product templates. - Assist in planning 12-month objectives for Operations through annual budget process by preparing forms, reviewing expenses and analyzing variances. - Review current year to date costs and determine which are one time and which are recurring. - Make recommendations to plant management regarding the nature of costs, i.e., whether costs are variable or fixed. - Support Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma projects by gathering and analyzing data from the ERP system. Participation will require the ability to become part of a team that will review and analyze processes and/or problems, develop and test solutions, determine the level of success provided by the solution, and roll out implementation to affected parties. - Implement changes to operating practices through Continuous Improvement initiatives. - Provides direct labor analysis. Determine whether variances are ongoing part of product costs and impact to standard cost. - Analyze general ledger accounts. Run various reports and complete projects as assigned - Participate in the inventory cycle count or other physical inventories including fixed asset audits - Prepares Financial analysis for CEP’s, tracks spending and closes projects to Fixed assets. - Performs other duties as assigned. - Participate in SQF Housekeeping and Food Safety Programs. Provide plant housekeeping support. We need to ensure each bullet is a
• . Might need to split sub-bullets? The first bullet includes subpoints; but we can keep as one
• with internal sentences. Next: Required Job Qualifications: list includes: - 5 or more years proven experience in cost accounting and financial reporting in a manufacturing environment preferred. - Solid knowledge of accounting rules, e.g., GAAP and/or IFRS - Good problem-solving skills; attention to detail; This position requires the ability to discern between normal results and anomalies and take steps when necessary. - Ability to work with limited supervision, high level of proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel. - Ability to operate basic office equipment such as computer, calculator, copier, and fax machine. - Preferred Bachelor’s Degree with Accounting Emphasis, or equivalent work experience preferred. - 1 - 2 years of experience with Access and/or Excel queries. - 2 years Business ERP system experience Oracle preferred. - Certified Management Accountant, CPA, MBA or candidate preferred We can put under "Qualifications" heading. Preferred maybe also "Skills": but we have skills like Excel, Access, ERP, problem solving, attention to detail. Could create a Skills section. However we must only include sections when posting has real, specific content. We have skills content; we could put under Skills heading. But we also have Qualifications. Might combine? The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine Qualifications and Skills into one "Requirements" or "Qualifications". But we have headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose to use "Responsibilities" for essential functions, "Qualifications" for required job qualifications, and maybe "Skills" for specific technical skills (Excel, Access, ERP). However we risk thin sections. Let's see: we have enough content for Qualifications (experience, education, knowledge). Skills could be separate: proficiency with Microsoft Office especially Excel, ability to operate basic office equipment, experience with Access/Excel queries, ERP system experience Oracle. That's substantive enough. Thus we can have sections: About the role (job summary), Responsibilities (essential functions), Qualifications (education, experience, knowledge), Skills (technical skills). No Benefits, Pay, Schedule as not provided. We must not repeat job title as heading. No metadata like Job ID. We must output only HTML fragment. Let's craft. Structure:

  About the role

  ... job summary ...

  Responsibilities

  • ...
  ...

  Qualifications

  • 5 or more years proven experience in cost accounting and financial reporting in a manufacturing environment preferred.
  • Solid knowledge of accounting rules, e.g., GAAP and/or IFRS
  • Good problem-solving skills; attention to detail; ability to discern between normal results and anomalies and take steps when necessary.
  • Ability to work with limited supervision, high level of proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
  • Ability to operate basic office equipment such as computer, calculator, copier, and fax machine.
  • Bachelor’s Degree with Accounting Emphasis, or equivalent work experience preferred.

  Skills

  • 1‑2 years of experience with Access and/or Excel queries.
  • 2 years of Business ERP system experience (Oracle preferred).
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
  • Ability to work with limited supervision.
  But note some duplication: proficiency with Microsoft Office appears both in Qualifications and Skills. Might be okay but could be redundant. Perhaps we move Excel proficiency to Skills and keep Qualifications more about experience/education. Let's adjust. Qualifications: experience, knowledge, problem solving, ability to work limited supervision, ability to operate basic office equipment, bachelor's degree. Skills: Excel proficiency, Access/Excel queries, ERP Oracle experience. Let's ensure we don't duplicate. Now produce HTML. Check for any boilerplate: we removed navigation etc. Make sure to preserve all substantive information: we included all points. Check we didn't miss any essential function: Let's list them again and ensure each is captured. Essential Functions bullet list: 1. Analyzes data to formulate and recommend material, key or significant revisions or modifications with regard to the following: - Establish standard costs for manufactured items in the factory by working with engineering, production and purchasing to accurately distribute production costs. Part of this responsibility includes the ongoing review of manufacturing operations and analysis of variances. Discretion must be used to determine which variances are nominal and written off and which are significant enough to escalate the review to possibly require standard cost revision. - When standard costs are changed, determine and review inventory revaluation and its effect on financial results - Perform month-end close by reviewing general ledger, reconciling accounts and making journal entries. - Administer manufacturing activity and inventory levels at outside processing suppliers; discern when inventory adjustments and/or scrap needs to be recognized. - Investigate and resolve significant inventory discrepancies at outside processing suppliers. - Create, review and analyze BOMs and routings for new products by using standard times and product templates. - Assist in planning 12-month objectives for Operations through annual budget process by preparing forms, reviewing expenses and analyzing variances. - Review current year to date costs and determine which are one time and which are recurring. - Make recommendations to plant management regarding the nature of costs, i.e., whether costs are variable or fixed. - Support Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma projects by gathering and analyzing data from the ERP system. Participation will require the ability to become part of a team that will review and analyze processes and/or problems, develop and test solutions, determine the level of success provided by the solution, and roll out implementation to affected parties. - Implement changes to operating practices through Continuous Improvement initiatives. - Provides direct labor analysis. Determine whether variances are ongoing part of product costs and impact to standard cost. - Analyze general ledger accounts. Run various reports and complete projects as assigned - Participate in the inventory cycle count or other physical inventories including fixed asset audits - Prepares Financial analysis for CEP’s, tracks spending and closes projects to Fixed assets. - Performs other duties as assigned. - Participate in SQF Housekeeping and Food Safety Programs. Provide plant housekeeping support. We need to capture each as separate
• . The first bullet includes sub-bullets; we could break them out but it's okay to keep as one
• with multiple sentences. However we might lose some granularity but still preserve all info. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. If we combine sub-bullets into one
• , we still preserve all detail, just not as separate items. That's acceptable. But we have many items; we could keep each sub-bullet as separate
• under a parent? However HTML only allows flat list; we could still make each sub-bullet a separate
• . Let's do that: break down the first bullet into separate items. Thus:
• Analyzes data to formulate and recommend material, key or significant revisions or modifications.
• Establish standard costs for manufactured items in the factory by working with engineering, production and purchasing to accurately distribute production costs. Part of this responsibility includes the ongoing review of manufacturing operations and analysis of variances. Discretion must be used to determine which variances are nominal and written off and which are significant enough to escalate the review to possibly require standard cost revision.
• When standard costs are changed, determine and review inventory revaluation and its effect on financial results
• Perform month-end close by reviewing general ledger, reconciling accounts and making journal entries.
• Administer manufacturing activity and inventory levels at outside processing suppliers; discern when inventory adjustments and/or scrap needs to be recognized.
• Investigate and resolve significant inventory discrepancies at outside processing suppliers.
• Create, review and analyze BOMs and routings for new products by using standard times and product templates.
• Assist in planning 12-month objectives for Operations through annual budget process by preparing forms, reviewing expenses and analyzing variances.
• Review current year to date costs and determine which are one time and which are recurring.
• Make recommendations to plant management regarding the nature of costs, i.e., whether costs are variable or fixed.
• Support Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma projects by gathering and analyzing data from the ERP system. Participation will require the ability to become part of a team that will review and analyze processes and/or problems, develop and test solutions, determine the level of success provided by the solution, and roll out implementation to affected parties.
• Implement changes to operating practices through Continuous Improvement initiatives.
• Provides direct labor analysis. Determine whether variances are