Cost Accountant

Looking for a Career for Good?

Puratos is a global purpose-driven company focused on bringing people together through food innovation for good. We offer a full range of innovative food ingredients and services for the bakery, patisserie, and chocolate sectors, serving artisans, retailers, industrial and food service companies in over 100 countries around the world. Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core values continue to propel our global ambitions. This coupled with our commitment to our communities is what makes working at Puratos so magical. 

If you are a collaborative, results-oriented team player with a passion for making a difference and fostering a company culture centered around its people, we invite you to join us for “a career for good.”

Position Overview:

The Cost Accountant will report, monitor and review daily process order transactions for inefficiencies & perform research to determine the root cause.

Primary Responsibilities:

•  Maintain cost accounting system, including updates of the standard costs & finished good routing times.
• Develop and maintain cost accounting systems and procedures.
• Analyze Purchase Price Variance & book all related journal entries.
• Analyze manufacturing variances from standard costs & report.
• Prepare and analyze product costs for new and existing products.
• Provide guidance and support to the production team on cost-related matters.
• Book month end accruals related to production & quality cost centers.
• Participate on site internal/external audits.
• Ad-hoc support of operations/finance with respect to the above.

Qualifications:

• Education experience
  • Preferred - 4 Year / Bachelors Degree
• 3 - 5 years relevant work experience
• Cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment required.
• Prior Knowledge/Experience
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
  • SAP experience required.

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