Analista de Costos - Impulsa Decisiones y Eficiencia

Ingredion Incorporated; Sur; Hybrid; COP 70,000,000 - 100,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ingredion Incorporated in Cali, Colombia, is seeking a Cost Accountant to join our manufacturing finance team. You will actively manage actuals, cost allocations, monthly close, and cost reporting to drive accurate cost information and informed decisions.

The ideal candidate has at least 3 years in cost accounting in manufacturing, a relevant degree, strong English, and advanced Excel with SAP, BPC, and Power BI experience. Hybrid work is offered, with collaboration across functional teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of cost accounting or cost analysis experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Economics or Accounting or a related field.
• Proficient in forecasting, financial planning, reporting, analysis, and decision support.
• Experience in manufacturing companies.
• Advanced MS Office skills with SAP, BPC, and Power BI experience.

Responsibilities

• Actively work on actuals financial routine ensuring correct allocations, accuracy, including monthly closing analysis and related reports.
• Assist and support periodical financial forecasts related to costs and variances.
• Support the budget and planning processes, including timelines, coordination, and communication with stakeholders.
• Determine standard cost, estimated cost, replacement cost, imported cost and cost of goods sold for all products.
• Provide accurate and relevant manufacturing cost information to support business decisions.
• Identify and propose process improvement and simplification opportunities impacting production and imported costs.
• Review and validate processes affecting cost accounting to ensure data accuracy.
• Promote continuous improvement and adoption of changes to enhance accounting performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve the timeliness and quality of financial information provided to users.
• Support business users in resolving issues related to production and sales costs, ensuring reliability of information.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to improve processes and drive efficiencies.
• Partner closely with the FP&A team to ensure alignment in financial messaging, reporting, and decision support.
• Provide financial information and support to external stakeholders, as required

Skills

Cost accounting

Forecasting

Excel

Power BI

SAP

BPC

English

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Economics or Accounting

Tools

SAP

BPC

Power BI

Job description

Ingredion Incorporated in Cali, Colombia, is seeking a Cost Accountant to join our manufacturing finance team. You will actively manage actuals, cost allocations, monthly close, and cost reporting to drive accurate cost information and informed decisions.

The ideal candidate has at least 3 years in cost accounting in manufacturing, a relevant degree, strong English, and advanced Excel with SAP, BPC, and Power BI experience. Hybrid work is offered, with collaboration across functional teams.