What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Cost Accountant position at EPTA?
Job Description
Plant FP&A Specialist provides financial support to the company's management team, contributing to short-term and long-term PLANT target setting, action plan definition, and monitoring. This role collaborates with various departments to produce detailed financial analysis and reporting, enabling informed decision-making and driving production efficiency and plant profitability.
Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities
Tasks may include, but are not limited to the following :
- Inventory valuation methods experience
- Standard cost setting (Standard cost evaluation vs actual, Overhead and hour rate calculation, material price standard vs actual)
- Plant efficiencies report- quantities, labor productivity, Earned hour analysis
- Hour rate per department and plant elaboration and monitoring
- Stock monitoring (commodities evaluation), Purchase Price Variation (PPV) analysis
- Production orders variances
- Analysis of variations between forecasting, budget, and actual results (P&L and BS), according to organization specialized control model, systems, procedures, timeline
- Inventory excess and obsolete reserve and analysis
- Plant postprocessing of error records from automatic good movements
- Investment's Return of Investment (ROI) monitoring, new investments evaluation (desired)
- Develop strategic insights and recommendations for investments, cost reduction, and other business decisions (desired)
- Implement and manage planning and control systems to ensure timely and accurate management accounts, focusing on production efficiency and plant profitability, cost reduction and inventory (desired)
- Support management in coordinating the programming process, including quarterly forecasts and ad-hoc financial analyses (desired)
- Provide comprehensive reporting on structure costs and industrial operations (desired)
Qualifications : Education, Experience, and Skills
Required :
Associated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Core Job Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following job competencies :
License / Certification
Preferred : N / A
Working Environment & Conditions / Physical Requirements
Equipment or Machines Routinely Used in This Position
Review Procedures
A regular review and evaluation of the team member's work performance will be conducted.
