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Cost Analyst

Automation Personnel Services
Sugar, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 1/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/23/2025

Cost Analyst

Automation Personnel Services is looking for a Cost Analyst

for a company based in Sugar Land, Texas. Primarily be responsible for work with production team to maintain and review products’ standard costs in SAP, analyze cost variances monthly for management action, support financial audit and internal control activities, support accounting projects as needed.

Pay Rate

33.00 - $38.00 an hour

Schedule and Hours

Monday through Friday 9 : 00 am to 6 : 00 pm

Cost Analyst   Duties and Responsibilities

  • Perform the cost-end closing on the 1st working day and prepare journal entries as necessary.
  • Collaborate with the accounting team to ensure complete cost components are included before closing.
  • Review labor and overhead standard costs periodically and propose changes when necessary.
  • Analyze actual manufacturing costs and prepare variance analysis reports for the management team monthly.
  • Communicate with the production team to address cost issues or variances.
  • Assist and lead in special projects as necessary including process improvements, efficiency recommendations and adherence to accounting policies and procedures.
  • Prepare monthly report packages to present to the management team.
  • Prepare account analysis and reconcile accounts as required.
  • Participate in Assets and inventory annual physical counts.
  • Respond to requirements for internal and external audits in cost accounting and other audits
  • Work on special projects as required.

Cost Analyst   Qualifications and Requirements

  • Minimum Education Requirements : Bachelor’s degree in accounting
  • Preferred Education Requirements : Master’s degree in accounting or MBA
  • Minimum Experience Requirements : 5  years working experiences in accounting or audit experiences
  • Preferred Experience Requirements : 5 years in cost accounting or 3-year auditor’s experience
  • Software / Hardware Knowledge : SAP ERP and advanced Excel Skills
  • Organized and strong analytical skill
  • Multiple task ability and priority setting to meet critical deadlines
  • Effective communication with other people
  • SOX compliances experiences
  • Quick and progressive learner
  • Adaptive to changes
  • Strong working ethic
  • Hardworking and analytical
  • Job Type

    Full-time, Temporary to Hire

    Benefits

  • Weekly Pay
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability and life insurance
  • 5 paid Vacation Days after 1 year of continuous service (paid as a service bonus)
  • 6 paid Holidays after 1500 continuous hours of service within a calendar year
  • Interested in this job?

    Click Apply Now, email your resume to  apsHoustonWest@apstemps.com , or call us at 713.730.7447 to learn more. You can also apply in person at our office located at :

    Automation Personnel Services Houston West Branch

    9630 Westheimer Rd

    Houston, TX 77063

    Bonus Opportunity!

    We are also offering a $50.00 referral bonus. Both employee and referral must stay on assignment for 30 days to receive the payout.

    About Automation Personnel Services

    Automation Personnel Services is an award-winning staffing agency with more than 30 years of experience in manufacturing and light-industrial staffing. Automation Personnel Services is the winner of the ClearlyRated® Best of Staffing Talent Award in 2019-2022, and the ClearlyRated® Best of Staffing Client Award for seven straight years, 2016-2022. Automation Personnel Services is also the recipient of the Safety Standard of Excellence Award by the American Staffing Association.

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    Equal Opportunity Employer

    APSHoustonWest

    Salary : $33 - $38

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