Cost Accounting Specialist

copeland; Chihuahua; Presencial; MXN 420.000 - 660.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Copeland in Chihuahua, Mexico, seeks a Senior Cost Accounting Specialist to lead product costing, inventory valuation, and ERP costing processes. This role partners with Operations, Procurement, Engineering, and FP&A to drive cost accuracy, profitability, and operational efficiency.

The Senior COST Accounting Specialist will own standard cost governance, physical inventory, NPI cost modelling, and compliance, ensuring integrity of costs across the business. This position reports to the Sr.

Formación

• Subject matter expert for manufacturing cost accounting processes.
• Experience with annual Standard Cost Roll, material, labor, burden, and overhead rates.

Responsabilidades

• Be the primary cost accounting subject matter expert for manufacturing cost accounting processes and costing methodologies.
• Support the annual Standard Cost Roll, ensuring accurate rates across all products.
• Maintain and improve costing models, inventory valuation methodologies and related ERP data.
• Analyze labor, material, overhead, absorption, and variances to identify risks and opportunities.
• Ensure integrity of cost data across ERP, reporting systems, and financial statements.
• Own inventory accounting processes including reconciliations and physical inventory governance.
• Develop cost reporting, dashboards, and analytics using ERP, Excel, BI tools.
• Partner with Operations, Procurement, Engineering, Supply Chain and FP&A to improve margins.
• Support NPI cost modeling, BOM validation and profitability analysis.
• Improve costing procedures, policies, and internal controls; drive process improvements.

Descripción del empleo

About Us

We are a global climate technologies company engineered for sustainability. We create sustainable and efficient residential, commercial and industrial spaces through HVACR technologies. We protect temperature-sensitive goods throughout the cold chain. And we bring comfort to people globally. Best-in-class engineering, design and manufacturing combined with category-leading brands in compression, controls, software and monitoring solutions result in next‑generation climate technology that is built for the needs of the world ahead.

We are a sustainable company engaged to the values of Excellence, Innovation, Collaboration, Respect and Responsibility. We seek professionals who share our vision of creating sustainable solutions that improve lives and protect the planet, today and for future generations.

We are looking for your talent, join our team and start your journey today!

Job Description

Position Name: Cost Accounting Specialist

Business: Controls Solutions

Location : Chihuahua México

Reports to: Sr. Cost Accounting Manager

Department : BU Finance

Generic Job Description

Reporting to the Senior Cost Accounting Manager, the Senior Cost Accounting Specialist serves as the subject matter expert for product costing, inventory valuation, cost governance, and manufacturing financial analysis. This role leads to key costing initiatives across the operation, ensuring the integrity of standard costs, inventory controls, labor and overhead structures, and ERP costing processes.

The Senior Cost Accounting Specialist acts as a strategic business partner to Operations, Materials, Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Finance leadership, providing insights to improve profitability, cost accuracy, inventory performance, and operational efficiency.

Additionally, this role leads annual standard cost roll activities, physical inventory governance, new product costing, compliance requirements, and continuous improvement initiatives related to costing processes and ERP systems. This role is intended to serve as the natural successor to the Senior Cost Accounting Manager position.

Responsibilities

Cost Accounting & Cost Governance

• Serve as the primary subject matter expert for manufacturing cost accounting processes and costing methodologies.
• Support and lead where necessary on the annual Standard Cost Roll process, ensuring accurate material, labor, burden, and overhead rates across all products.
• Maintain and continuously improve cost structures, costing models, and inventory valuation methodologies within ERP systems.
• Perform detailed analysis of labor, material, overhead, absorption, and manufacturing variances to identify risks and opportunities.
• Ensure integrity and consistency of cost data across ERP, reporting systems, and financial statements.

Inventory Accounting & Controls

• Own inventory-related accounting processes, including reconciliation of inventory General Ledger accounts.
• Support and lead where necessary, finance activities associated with annual physical inventories, cycle count governance, and inventory accuracy initiatives.
• Perform regular reviews of inventory reserves, Excess & Obsolete (E&O) inventory, deferred variances, and inventory-related risks.

Reporting & Business Analytics

• Provide support in the on-going development, automation, and enhancement of cost accounting reports, dashboards, and analytical tools using ERP systems, Excel, Power BI, Domo, and other reporting platforms.
• Support internal and external audit requests through accurate and timely financial analysis.

Business Partnership

• Partner closely with Operations, Procurement, Engineering, Supply Chain, and FP&A teams to evaluate cost performance and margin improvement opportunities.
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) initiatives through cost modeling, bill-of-material validation, and profitability analysis.

ERP & Process Improvement

• Support in the development and maintenance of costing procedures, policies, and internal control documentation.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts focused on reporting accuracy, inventory controls, and operational efficiency.

Compliance & Internal Controls

• Support internal and external audits and maintain audit-ready documentation.
• Ensure record retention requirements and financial documentation standards are maintained.
• Support compliance initiatives related to Trade Compliance, C-TPAT, OEA, EH&S, and other applicable regulations.

Authority

• To maintain labor and overhead rates in MRP systems.
• To correct labor and overhead rates in MRP systems.
• To report and distribute Costing related reports to the operation and company executives as required.
• Update and maintain labor, overhead, burden, and costing configurations within ERP/MRP systems.
• Support and prepare some of the published, validated, and distributed official costing, inventory, and operational performance report locally and from Copeland.
• Recommend process improvements and corrective actions related to costing, in