Senior Cost Analyst — Manufacturing Costing & FP&A Partner

Johnson & Johnson; Puerto De Luna (NM); On-site; USD 62,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Senior Cost Analyst to support J&J Surgical Vision operations in Añasco, Puerto Rico. You will provide cost analysis, forecasting, and financial reporting while ensuring accuracy and timely insights for decision making.

Responsibilities include standard cost setting, variance analysis, inventory close, and cost model improvements, partnering with site operations to drive cost visibility and savings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant finance, cost accounting, or manufacturing-finance experience.
• Solid understanding of standard costing, inventory accounting, manufacturing variances, cost-per-unit analysis, forecasting, and financial reporting.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial-modeling skills.
• Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and business-partnering capabilities.
• Ability to work independently and deliver accurate analysis under tight deadlines.
• Proficiency in English and Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Lead standard cost setting and maintain product costs, labor standards, rates, routings, and manufacturing assumptions.
• Analyze cost per unit and key production variances against standard, budget, forecast, and prior year.
• Support financial close for inventory, production costs, manufacturing variances, and assigned accounts, including entries, reconciliations, and audit-ready documentation.
• Develop cost, volume, absorption, freight, material-price, and productivity assumptions for forecasts and business plans.
• Identify costing, master-data, valuation, and control issues and drive timely resolution.
• Provide financial oversight for process-improvement initiatives by validating project costs, recurring benefits, offsets, and realized savings against operational and financial evidence, while improving costing models, reporting, controls, and data quality.
• Partner across the site to provide actionable costing insights, strengthen cost visibility and financial efficiency, promptly communicate material risks and opportunities, and support ad hoc financial analysis.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial modeling

Analytical thinking

Communication

Problem solving

English & Spanish

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance/Economics

CPA/CMA/MBA or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Job description

Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Senior Cost Analyst to support J&J Surgical Vision operations in Añasco, Puerto Rico. You will provide cost analysis, forecasting, and financial reporting while ensuring accuracy and timely insights for decision making.

Responsibilities include standard cost setting, variance analysis, inventory close, and cost model improvements, partnering with site operations to drive cost visibility and savings.