Junior Cost Accountant

Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics North America; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 71,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Junior Cost Accountant to support its innovative product launches and financial processes. This role involves collaborating with diverse teams to ensure accurate costing and transfer pricing, providing insightful analysis, and improving financial knowledge across the organization. Candidates should possess strong Excel skills and a proactive mindset, ready to thrive in a hybrid work environment. Join a company committed to sustainable practices and employee ownership, where your contributions will directly impact the business's success and community engagement.

Benefits

Employee Ownership

Flexible Work Hours

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Sustainable Practices Commitment

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in a manufacturing support role.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and collaborative skills.

Responsibilities

• Setup costing and transfer pricing for new products.
• Conduct post-launch analysis for product performance.
• Support financial reviews and improve process efficiency.

Skills

Time Management

Detail Orientation

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Microsoft Excel

Proactive Approach

Education

1-2 years of Manufacturing Support Experience

Accounting/Finance Experience

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics AX

PowerBI

Job description

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The Junior Cost Accountant plays an essential role in supporting and executing the company vision by ensuring accurate information is provided for transfer pricing and costing on new product innovations and campaign ranges. You will understand business operations within Manufacturing and ERP systems to play an integral role in the process of setting up new items alongside the Business Process team and Production staff. You will ensure information is accurate, relevant, and actionable while being understood by a wide audience of stakeholders.

You will be comfortable regularly interacting with all levels of staff and provide them with accurate and clear data to support with reporting and analysis. As a growing business, Lush needs people that can adapt and evolve to the needs of the business. You have a passion for what you do and are ready to join a business dedicated not just to technical proficiency but to the practices of fair-trade sourcing, supporting sustainable communities, and giving back to grass roots organizations.

Our Lush staff live with purpose, finding their personal value connection with the values of our business, bringing their work and life paths into one holistic journey.

Reporting to the FP&A Manager - Manufacturing, the Junior Cost Accountant will undertake the followingresponsibilities:

• Responsible for accurate and timely setup of costing and transfer pricing on new products as a part of the product launch cycle to ensure products are launched on time with correct information.
• Responsible for post-launch analysis of new product launches, seasonal, and campaign ranges to identify areas of improvement for production performance and financial forecasting.
• Support Manu Finance team with reviews and analysis on costing of non-material items of overheads, freight, moulds, and other allocations.
• Support Sr Cost Accountant on updates of costing standards to ensure correct labour and material costs.
• Support the Business Process team with setups and reviews of labour routings
• Support reviews of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to find actionable opportunities for stakeholders and educate the business on how those metric drive financial improvements.
• Improve finance knowledge across the business by effectively communicating financial concepts that can be easily understood by all stakeholders.
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve accuracy and efficiency of processes and deliverables.
• Provide support for any ad-hoc analysis projects, modelling, and presentation materials as required.

You bring the following QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• 1-2 years of Manufacturing Support or related experience.
• Strong time management skills and ability to work calmly under pressure to achieve deadlines.
• Detail orientated and able to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• A proven, collaborative, and inclusive approach to business support.
• Strong proficiency and experience with Microsoft Excel.
• Pro-active approach and initiative.
• Excitement and commitment to learn, understand, and relate to Lush’s core brand values.

Preferred:

• 1-2 years experience in accounting/finance facing role or equivalent work experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics AX (or other ERP) and/or Adaptive forecasting software considered an asset.
• Experience in dashboarding, analysis and visualizations through PowerBI.

Job Type: Regular, Full Time role.

Location: Successful candidate must be located in or around Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This is a hybrid role, with 2-3 days/week in office required.

Thriving with a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our staff and committed to inclusion. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We thank all interested applicants; however, only qualified candidates will be contacted.

We’re 10% Employee Owned- all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics, our independence , contributing ideas for the future and share in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.

The Junior Cost Accountant plays an essential role in supporting and executing the company vision by ensuring accurate information is provided for transfer pricing and costing on new product innovations and campaign ranges. You will understand business operations within Manufacturing and ERP systems to play an integral role in the process of setting up new items alongside the Business Process team and Production staff. You will ensure information is accurate, relevant, and actionable while being understood by a wide audience of stakeholders.

You will be comfortable regularly interacting with all levels of staff and provide them with accurate and clear data to support with reporting and analysis. As a growing business, Lush needs people that can adapt and evolve to the needs of the business. You have a passion for what you do and are ready to join a business dedicated not just to technical proficiency but to the practices of fair-trade sourcing, supporting sustainable communities, and giving back to grass roots organizations.

Our Lush staff live with purpose, finding their personal value connection with the values of our business, bringing their work and life paths into one holistic journey.

Reporting to the FP&A Manager - Manufacturing, the Junior Cost Accountant will undertake the followingresponsibilities:

• Responsible for accurate and timely setup of costing and transfer pricing on new products as a part of the product launch cycle to ensure products are launched on time with correct information.


• Responsible for post-launch analysis of new product launches, seasonal, and campaign ranges to identify areas of improvement for production performance and financial forecasting.


• Support Manu Finance team with reviews and analysis on costing of non-material items of overheads, freight, moulds, and other allocations.


• Support Sr Cost Accountant on updates of costing standards to ensure correct labour and material costs.


• Support the Business Process team with setups and reviews of labour routings


• Support reviews of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to find actionable opportunities for stakeholders and educate the business on how those metric drive financial improvements.


• Improve finance knowledge across the business by effectively communicating financial concepts that can be easily understood by all stakeholders.


• Proactively seek opportunities to improve accuracy and efficiency of processes and deliverables.


• Provide support for any ad-hoc analysis projects, modelling, and presentation materials as required.

You bring the following QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• 1-2 years of Manufacturing Support or related experience.


• Strong time management skills and ability to work calmly under pressure to achieve deadlines.


• Detail orientated and able to handle multiple projects simultaneously


• Strong presentation and communication skills.


• A proven, collaborative, and inclusive approach to business support.


• Strong proficiency and experience with Microsoft Excel.


• Pro-active approach and initiative.


• Excitement and commitment to learn, understand, and relate to Lush’s core brand values.

Preferred:

• 1-2 years experience in accounting/finance facing role or equivalent work experience


• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics AX (or other ERP) and/or Adaptive forecasting software considered an asset.


• Experience in dashboarding, analysis and visualizations through PowerBI.

Job Type: Regular, Full Time role.

Location: Successful candidate must be located in or around Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This is a hybrid role, with 2-3 days/week in office required.

Thriving with a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our staff and committed to inclusion. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We thank all interested applicants; however, only qualified candidates will be contacted.

We’re 10% Employee Owned- all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics, our independence , contributing ideas for the future and share in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.

Recruitment Process Overview

This salary range is based on an assessment of the local market and may vary depending on the successful candidate's location. This range is based on base salary and does not include additional bonus program and total rewards eligibility.

Base Salary Range: $71,500 CAD - $75,000 CAD

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