Cost Accounting Specialist

Supervising cost control activities ensuring alignment with policies and procedures.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Ensure work is performed based on approved policies, processes, procedures and instructions.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes and practices considering leading practices, cost reduction and productivity improvement.
• Escalate problems to ensure case / issue is closed efficiently and in a timely manner.
• Coordinate with Corporate Finance to assess budget / forecast including spending risks / opportunities for decision‑making.
• Develop standard costing templates based on best practices and international benchmarks to facilitate data gathering from different sources.
• Design a cost structure to be base for pricing provided services.
• Perform cost benchmarking to provide accurate costing principles for departments.
• Review the process of reconciliation to ensure smooth operations in a timely manner.
• Monitor payments processing (payroll, supplier payments, etc.) ensuring timely processing.
• Review fixed assets accounting ensuring alignment to policies and procedures.
• Monitor the closing process and the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual accounting statements and reports ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Apply a cost justification framework to support decisions about complex costs.
• Perform complex analysis and recommend the best solution to achieve most efficient cost‑cutting solutions.
• Provide input for the development of reports regarding operations, activities and achievements for reporting and decision‑making.

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