Cost Accountant: Manufacturing & Supply Chain Insights

Pure Dairy; Greater Dandenong; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Career growth and development

Exposure to a dynamic and expanding制造业

A supportive and collaborative culture

Opportunity to impact profitability

Job summary

Pure Dairy in Australia is seeking a commercially minded Cost Accountant to join our Finance team in a critical business partnering role supporting Manufacturing and Supply Chain. You will maintain SKU standard costs, analyse cost variances, partner with production to improve efficiency and direct logistics costs, while reporting with Excel and Power BI.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a proactive finance professional who can drive profitability and better decision making across the

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
• CPA or CA qualified, or working towards qualification, preferred
• Two to five years of cost accounting experience in food or FMCG manufacturing
• Experience with manufacturing ERP systems; Business Central or a comparable ERP is preferred
• Strong Excel and analytical skills, with Power BI experience preferred
• Clear communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams
• Curiosity, learning agility and the ability to challenge assumptions and find practical solutions

Responsibilities

• Maintaining SKU standard costs, bills of materials and production routings
• Analysing monthly manufacturing cost variances, yield, waste, labour efficiency and factory utilisation
• Partnering with Manufacturing to explain cost drivers, challenge performance and drive practical improvement actions
• Analysing inbound freight, warehousing, third-party logistics and outbound distribution costs
• Working with Supply Chain to improve logistics efficiency and cost-to-serve
• Analysing inventory days, short-dated stock and slow-moving or obsolete inventory
• Maintaining enterprise resource planning costing data and improve manufacturing and inventory processes
• Reporting manufacturing and logistics costs using Excel and Power BI
• Updating manufacturing and logistics cost assumptions for rolling forecasts

Skills

Cost accounting

Excel

Power BI

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

CPA or CA qualification (preferred)

Tools

Business Central ERP

Job description

Pure Dairy in Australia is seeking a commercially minded Cost Accountant to join our Finance team in a critical business partnering role supporting Manufacturing and Supply Chain. You will maintain SKU standard costs, analyse cost variances, partner with production to improve efficiency and direct logistics costs, while reporting with Excel and Power BI.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a proactive finance professional who can drive profitability and better decision making across the