JR. COST ACCOUNTANT AND MATERIAL DATA COORDINATOR

Sika; Oakville; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Sika Canada, located in Oakville, is seeking a Jr. Cost Accountant and Material Data Coordinator to manage SAP-based costing, item code governance, and MDG data maintenance. This role supports month-end activities, cost analysis, and cross-functional data integrity for the Canadian operation.

The candidate will collaborate with Operations and Sales teams, ensure accurate cost setup for new codes, and participate in stock verifications and cost roll-ups as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience with cost setup for new codes and extensions.
• Ability to review cost pricing and analyze variances.
• Support month-end activities and reporting as needed.
• Experience reviewing production variances periodically.
• Experience with factory cost analysis.

Responsibilities

• Create and extend item codes in MDG portal, maintain master data for Sika Canada.
• Maintain documentation for item creation and costing processes.
• Analyze and resolve cross-functional item code data issues.
• Ensure timely and accurate item code creation.
• Monitor MDG portal for code creation status and pending releases.
• Implement corporate requests for code deletions and data maintenance.
• Review SAP item configurations (BUs, MRP, stock transfer, etc.).
• Provide costing information to Operations and Sales teams as required.
• Collaborate with costing team to resolve costing issues.
• Assist cost estimation for new project launches.
• Participate in PLS analysis to determine codes to discontinue.
• Support cost roll-up activities as needed.
• Participate in annual stock verification and reporting.

Skills

Cost accounting

Variance analysis

Data maintenance

Data governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SAP

MDG portal

Job description

The Jr. Cost accountant and material data- Coordinator is responsible for entering and maintaining information in the company's Enterprise Resource Planning system (SAP) to ensure accuracy including creation and extension of item codes, maintaining costs and necessary updates.

What you will be doing:

• Ensure cost is set up properly whenever new code is created or existing code extended.
• Review of cost pricing and analysing variances.
• Support in performing month end activity and preparing reports as and when required.
• Review of production variances on periodic basis.
• Review of factory cost analysis as and when required.
• Creation and extension of Item codes in Material Data Governance (MDG) portal, costing and maintenance of the documentation for master data creation and managing it centrally for Sika Canada.
• Analyze and resolve cross-functional item code data issues.
• Ensure item codes are created accurately and within a reasonable timeframe.
• Responsible for Material Data Governance (MDG portal and monitoring status of item code creation and pending codes to be released for costing.
• Implement corporate requests for code deletions and data maintenance.
• Review item configuration set up (e.g., BU's, item codes blocked, MRP set up, stock transfer set up etc.) in SAP.
• Provide necessary costing information to the Operation/Sales team as required.
• Work with costing team to resolve any costing related issues.
• Assist operation team with cost estimation for new project launches.
• Participate in Partial Least Squares (PLS) analysis to determine codes to be discontinued when required.
• Ensuring support in cost roll up activity as and when required.
• Taking part in annual stock verification activity and preparing reports.
• Additional duties as assigned.