Cost Analyst

Job Description

Flexicon Corporation is looking for a Cost Analyst to join our Finance team in Bethlehem, PA. This is an onsite role and local candidates are given preference.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys digging into the numbers, understanding what is driving manufacturing costs, and working directly with Operations, Purchasing, Engineering, and Finance to improve cost visibility and inventory accuracy.

This isn't a role focused solely on reporting the numbers. We're looking for someone who can help us understand why costs and variances are occurring and turn that information into practical, actionable insights.

What You'll Do

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• Analyze standard versus actual manufacturing costs, including material, labor, overhead, usage, and scrap variances
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• Analyze purchase price variances and material cost changes
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• Review BOMs, routings, labor rates, overhead allocations, and other cost inputs for accuracy
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• Analyze job, work order, product, and project costs to identify cost drivers and improvement opportunities
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• Support annual standard cost setting and periodic cost updates
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• Analyze inventory activity, valuation, adjustments, and discrepancies
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• Analyze excess, slow-moving, and obsolete inventory
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• Prepare cost reports, trend analyses, dashboards, and other management reporting
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• Partner across Finance, Operations, Purchasing, Engineering, and Warehouse teams to improve cost and inventory processes
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• Support month-end/year-end inventory and manufacturing cost analysis, reconciliations, and audit requirements
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• Identify opportunities to strengthen processes, controls, reporting, and data accuracy
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What We're Looking For

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• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, Business, Supply Chain, or a related field
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• 3+ years of experience in cost analysis, inventory analysis, cost accounting, manufacturing finance, or a related role
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• Strong understanding of standard costing, variance analysis, inventory valuation, and manufacturing cost concepts
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• Experience working with ERP systems
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• Advanced Excel skills and the ability to work comfortably with large amounts of data
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• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
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• Ability to communicate financial and cost information clearly to non-financial partners
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• Manufacturing or engineered-to-order experience is a plus
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Why Flexicon?

At Flexicon, this role will have exposure well beyond the Finance department. You'll work with teams throughout the organization to understand how materials, labor, production activity, and inventory ultimately affect our costs and business performance.

If you're someone who likes to go beyond what the numbers say and figure out why they're saying it , we'd like to hear from you.

Apply today to join Flexicon Corporation in Bethlehem, PA.