Sr.CostAnalyst

**Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet ** We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We’re on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki. You could be part of our vision. Because it’s our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It’s every one of us working together. We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together. **Job Summary** The primary purpose of the position is to analyze data on manufacturing costs and recommend and make changes to standard costs that impact the pricing of products and labor for the facility. A key role is to ensure that inventory transactions, and subsequently inventory valuation, are accurate in terms of cost, quantity, purpose, and timeliness, and in doing so, ensuring that monthly results reported are accurate and timely. **Essential Functions** * Analyzes data to formulate and recommend material, key or significant revisions or modifications with regard to the following: * Establish standard costs for manufactured items in the factory by working with engineering, production and purchasing to accurately distribute production costs. Part of this responsibility includes the ongoing review of manufacturing operations and analysis of variances. Discretion must be used to determine which variances are nominal and written off and which are significant enough to escalate the review to possibly require standard cost revision. When standard costs are changed, determine and review inventory revaluation and its effect on financial results * Perform month-end close by reviewing general ledger, reconciling accounts and making journal