Product Costing & Analysis
· Maintain and update standard costs for spices, custom blends, and finished goods, incorporating raw materials, labor, overhead, and packaging.
· Analyze variances including purchase price variance (PPV), material usage, yield, labor efficiency, and overhead absorption.
· Prepare and review cost roll-ups for new and existing SKUs across multiple production lines and blending operations.
· Validate BOMs and routings, ensuring accuracy in ERP systems.
· Maintain costing-related master data in the ERP system.
· Conduct margin analysis by product, product line, and customer.
Financial Support for Operations
· Partner with plant leadership to evaluate manufacturing performance, identify cost drivers, and highlight improvement opportunities.
· Lead monthly close activities related to cost accounting, including inventory reconciliations and variance explanations.
· Support annual standard cost updates, labor rate reviews, and overhead allocation processes.
· Ensure data consistency and establish reporting governance for Finance, FP&A, and Operations.
Raw Material & Commodity Insights
· Work with Procurement to monitor commodity price movements, model costing impacts from supplier changes, harvest outcomes, and global spice market trends.
· Provide forward-looking cost forecasts used in pricing and quoting decisions.
Commercial & Pricing Support
· Prepare costing inputs for customer bids, RFQs, and sales proposals.
· Collaborate with Sales and R&D on new product development costing.
· Evaluate customer- and product-level profitability, recommending pricing actions when needed.
