Finance Manager

Description:

Reporting to Head of Costing, you will be responsible for analysis and reporting of monthly and year to date financial performance including analysing and explaining variances. You will partner with numerous stakeholders and require the ability to challenge the business and be a true partner. The main focus of this role is developing and maintaining Standard Costing at the Melbourne site and using this information to partner with the business to promote better decisions around cost control and efficiency.

The Duties
 

• Provide effective finance business partnering support to operational stakeholders around performance versus forecast and budget with expert analysis of variances that drive better decisions
• Executing costing runs, reviewing, and updating apportionments and BOM quantities
• Confirming cost allocations and completing Process Order settlements
• Support Contract scenario modelling and prepare detailed monthly and year-to-date variance analysis of actual financial performance compared to budgets and current forecasts
• Define, detail and maintain costing parameters (overheads and estimate activity rates) for use in various costing calculations
• Manage product costing & determine costs to be absorbed or allocated
• Support and contribute to the develop of product cost analytics, to improve process and product cost insights.