Overview
The Cost Analyst (CA) provides support to the Brandon operations team. The CA is responsible for operations performance measurement and plays a key role in supporting manufacturing initiatives. As a member of the Finance team, the CA will take part in overhead management, weekly and period end reporting and play a key role in providing the right information to plant management for the best decisions to be made.
A snapshot of some of the exciting things you will lead and do:
• Provide detailed yield/manufacturing analytics to management for decision making purposes.
• Ensure all information is correctly reported and provide a daily yield report to manufacturing.
• Investigate and correct, if necessary, any yield discrepancies, carryover, production.
• Ensure controls are in place to correctly report manufacturing performance.
• Populate front-end transaction template and input transactions into SAP.
• Transact purchased kill credits into SAP.
• Investigate front end hog weight/quantity in discrepancies.
• Calculate weekly boning percentages.
• Prepare downtime reports weekly and monthly for period end schedule.
• Be a yield subject matter expert and assist manufacturing foreman in their understanding of yield. reporting.
Spend time on the floor with foreman and develop a close working relationship.
• Provide support and assistance with Bill of Material changes.
• Provide financial analysis on Bill of Material change requests.
• Assist with and input yearly labour, yield, packaging standards.
• Work with manufacturing/engineering/finance to put in place more efficient and accurate procedures.
• Be familiar with new SKU process and assist in ensuring all new sku’s are set up correctly.
• Monitor Rework and ensure all entries into BPCS are complete.
• As part of Finance team participate in “finance buddy” program as well as assist in period end duties where required.
Qualifications
• Post-secondary education in an accounting program.
• Proficiency with MS Office, especially Excel.
• Knowledge of SAP environment is an asset.
• The ability to work cross-functionally.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong leadership and team building skills.
Company Information
If you are willing to step into a new and exciting career, please send us your resume to www.canadapackers.com/careers
We thank all applicants for their interest in exploring employment opportunities with Canada Packers however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.