What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cost Analyst position at Phenix Label Company, Inc.?
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At Phenix, you can learn, grow and succeed. Great teams, benefits, training and perks provide the basis for a rewarding work experience. Conveniently located in Olathe, Kansas (at 119th and Blackbob), Phenix has been leading the printing industry since its founding in 1896. We have a proud history of excellence and rewarding hard work and dedication. With more than 100 team members, Phenix offers plenty of opportunities for our people to succeed. If quality-oriented, dependable, and team-player describe you, we invite you to apply!
Position Summary:
The Cost Accountant is responsible for auditing our job data and verifying its accuracy. Implementing solutions to improve accuracy where current processes are found to be deficient. The Cost Accountant will be the go-to person for cost analysis and needs to prepare reports to help management make better decisions. To do this job well, the Cost Accountant will be well-versed in data and financial analysis, have strong attention to detail, and be able to identify trends in complex sets of data.
Essential Functions:
- Gather and analyze production and job data
- Determine standard costs and investigate variances with actual costs
- Prepare detailed reports, both periodically and ad-hoc
- Help management make important decisions based on costs and benefits (e.g. chargeable rates, production standards, pricing changes)
- Conduct audits on production processes and transactions
- Monitor changes in raw materials, processes, or methods to calculate effects on overall costs
- Forecast and analyze costs of processes, labor, and inventory
- Suggest cost-reducing or profitable solutions
- Conduct market research to support future business planning
- Maintains knowledge of trends, best practices, and new technologies in manufacturing data analysis
Secondary Functions:
- Individual must be able to work independently with minimal guidance required. This implies good time management, planning/organization, and decision-making skills.
- Individual must be able to interact effectively with a wide variety of people, maintaining flexibility, objectivity, and a capacity to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and understand changing priorities for production, sales, customer service, and our customers.
- Individual must be able to act in a pleasant, courteous, and respectful manner to all internal and external customers at all times.
- Complete any reasonable request of management necessary to effectively operate the department/company.
Position Specifications:
- Proven experience as a cost accountant, data analyst, or similar role
- Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a similar field
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes preferably printing-related
- Candidate should possess a strong work ethic, time-management, and troubleshooting skills, a positive attitude, and be detail-oriented and self-motivated.
- Candidate should be familiar with MS Office products and other basic computer skills.
- Effective oral and written communication.
Physical and Other Requirements:
Position requires the use of computers, software, logic, and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. Requires face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams. Requires being exact or highly accurate, meeting strict deadlines, and working with others in a group or team. Regularly required to stand; walk; talk; sit; listen; and have vision capabilities that enable reading and viewing a computer screen. Ability to use hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools, or controls is required. This may include exposure to sounds and noise levels that are distracting. Position may include exposure to sounds and noise levels that are distracting. Job tasks are performed in close physical proximity to other people. Requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions.
Phenix Label is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
