Cost Analyst - Operations (Manufacturing Finance)

Location: Duncan, SC 29334, USA. Primarily office-based, with regular interaction in production and inventory areas and periodic participation in physical inventory, cycle-count, and plant-control activities.

Company

hirify.global operates manufacturing facilities supported by plant controlling, operations, supply chain, engineering, procurement, and corporate finance functions.

What you will do

• Prepare and validate plant cost, inventory, and manufacturing schedules for monthly close, including accruals, reconciliations, journal-entry support, and variance explanations.
• Execute standard-cost activities and cost-roll processes while validating bills of material, routings, labor and machine rates, overhead rates, yields, scrap factors, and related production master data.
• Analyze purchase price, material usage, labor efficiency, scrap, overhead, absorption, job-close, inventory, and working-capital variances.
• Prepare planning inputs and maintain scorecards, cost bridges, forecasts, and recurring analyses connecting production drivers to gross margin, operating profit, inventory, and cash.
• Provide cost, capacity, productivity, and margin analysis for labor planning, sourcing, make-versus-buy, automation, capital, footprint, product mix, new products, and continuous-improvement decisions.
• Track approved improvement initiatives from business case through realized P&L, working-capital, and cash impact while improving controls, documentation, data quality, analytics, and automation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related analytical discipline.
• Typically two or more years of relevant experience in cost accounting, manufacturing finance, plant operations analysis, inventory, supply chain analytics, or a comparable role; equivalent practical experience will be considered.
• Working knowledge of standard costing, inventory valuation, manufacturing variances, absorption concepts, financial controls, and production economics.
• Proficiency with ERP and reporting systems, advanced Excel, and analytical or visualization tools.
• Ability to work with detailed operational and financial data, reconcile outputs to governed sources, identify root causes, communicate implications, and manage multiple deadlines in a matrix organization.
• Ability to perform assigned activities in accordance with GAAP, J-SOX, corporate policy, delegated authority, segregation-of-duties requirements, and hirify.global environmental, health, and safety expectations.
• High integrity and accountability, analytical curiosity, attention to detail, practical problem solving, clear communication, constructive challenge, collaboration, adaptability, continuous learning, and responsible use of automation and AI-enabled tools.

Nice to have

• Oracle and Power BI experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on analytical work supporting one or more manufacturing facilities and a broad manufacturing-finance capability.
• Collaboration with Plant Controlling, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Procurement, Product Cost Controlling, Corporate Controllership, Enterprise Performance, IT, Internal Audit, Compliance, Market Finance, and Human Resources.
• Work is performed within defined accounting, costing, planning, control, approval, and decision-right boundaries.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made consistent with applicable requirements.