Senior Cost Analyst

Role overview

Analysis, reporting, and planning

• Build cost-analysis frameworks and analyze direct and indirect costs, cost drivers, and cost performance across products, services, projects, departments, and business units.
• Prepare cost reports, dashboards, and management presentations; investigate variances and explain trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop cost models and costing methods; analyze unit economics, profitability, margins, pricing, and cost-volume-profit relationships.
• Support budgets, forecasts, scenarios, sensitivity analysis, cost targets, and early warnings on emerging cost pressures.

Business partnership and savings

• Partner with Operations and Procurement to assess supplier spend, pricing, sourcing, savings, make-versus-buy decisions, and outsourcing economics.
• Analyze labor, materials, logistics, inventory, project costs, commitments, capital expenditure, and operating expenditure.
• Develop business cases for cost reduction, quantify savings and payback, track initiatives, and validate realized benefits.
• Support pricing, investment, procurement, production, and strategic decisions with cost and margin analysis.

Controls, systems, and improvement

• Support financial close, cost accounting entries, allocations, cost-center structures, and reconciliations to the general ledger.
• Use ERP, BI, analytics, and spreadsheet systems to improve data quality, automate reports, and develop cost dashboards and KPIs.
• Support audits, document methods and assumptions, identify control weaknesses and financial risks, and recommend improvements.
• Present analysis to Finance and operating teams; mentor junior analysts and support finance transformation and cost-management projects.

Ideal candidate

• Experience in cost analysis, management accounting, FP&A, commercial finance, cost accounting, financial analysis, or operational finance.
• Strong cost-accounting and variance-analysis knowledge, including direct and indirect costs, overheads, allocations, and cost drivers.
• Experience building cost and financial models, budgets, forecasts, scenarios, and profitability or unit-economics analyses.
• Experience analyzing operational costs and supporting savings, efficiency, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Advanced spreadsheet and financial-modeling capabilities; experience with ERP, financial-reporting, BI, and analytics platforms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to connect operational drivers with financial performance.
• Understanding of budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and month-end processes.

Performance measures