Cost accountant responsibilities include overseeing and analyzing cost expenditures and purchases within the organization. The cost accountant will review existing purchases, record data, recommend new cost-efficient and financially feasible cost options, and oversee purchasing costs

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Planning, Studying, and collecting data to determine costs of business activity such as import and export goods,  raw material purchases, inventory, and labor.
• Analyzing data collected and recording results
• Analyzing changes in product design, raw materials, manufacturing methods or services provided, to determine effects on cost
• Recording cost information for use in controlling expenditures
• Prepare budgeting reports (for the company and for each department)
• Review standard and actual costs for inaccuracies
• Making estimates of new and proposed product costs
• Providing management with reports specifying and comparing factors affecting prices and profitability of products or services.
• Prepare (monthly, quarterly, and annual) cost forecasts
• Maintaining Cost Accounting System
• Assisting in month-end and year-end closing
• Conducts physical inventories and monitors cycle count program
• Reconciles all inventories
• Identify and recommend cost-effective solutions

Education Level: BA degree in cost Accounting

IMPORT AND EXPORT Experience