Sr. Production Costing Analyst

Overview

The Senior Production Costing Analyst is responsible for enabling our site to deliver on financial and strategic objectives through forecasting, analysis, and reporting that guide business decisions. This role is integral in managing financial performance and implementing finance strategies to achieve business performance in a cross-functional team environment. The Senior Production Costing Analyst supports the business and drives finance initiatives and decisions. This role is a high performer who exudes a contagious level of positive energy, possesses a high sense of ownership, and has a strong ability to communicate and build rapport with non-financially minded peers.

Company Overview

We are ‘Advancing tomorrow’s medicines’ and making a real difference to the world in which we live. At FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, we partner with our clients to deliver recombinant proteins, viral vaccines and gene therapies to patients. As a Contract Development & Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), our focus is to combine technical leadership in cell culture, microbial fermentation and viral vectors with world class GMP manufacturing facilities to advance tomorrow’s medicines. We seek candidates with proven ability to work independently and collaboratively to achieve optimized strategies, and execution programs with the ultimate goal of delivering products that transform the lives of patients.

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Develops and maintains material master data, including calculating standard product costs.
• Investigates purchase price variances and production yields and performs root-cause analysis to implement corrective actions.
• Performs inventory analysis, reconciliations, and counts, considering obsolete, slow-moving, expired, and scrapped materials.
• Responsible for full cost pricing and updating overhead costing allocations according to company guidelines.
• Validates the cost of goods sold to ensure correct valuation of raw materials inventory and work in process.
• Creates and manages program cost estimates and reporting.
• Partners with internal teams to ensure revenue recognition accounting is in accordance with internal policies.
• Manages month-end inventory costing close, including calculating inventory provisions and assisting in the overall financial closing process.
• Supports the development of strong cost financial models and analytical tools for influencing financial strategies and business decisions.
• Cultivates strong partnerships with business units to ensure collaboration and provide thorough financial analysis.
• Partners with business units to develop financial plans that align with business goals.
• Proactively identifies financial opportunities and risks and provides risk mitigation strategies to achieve budget targets.
• Prepares and presents financial reports and analyses to senior leadership and executive committees, ensuring a high degree of quality, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Conducts ad-hoc analysis and projects as assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally with a diverse team.
• Champions a collaborative attitude for the team
• Highly motivated, self-starter with ability to work independently in a fast-paced changing environment, prioritizing tasks effectively.
• Superior communication skills for collaboration at all levels of the organization
• Ability to respond independently to senior leadership inquiries.
• Detailed professional with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working with complex data sets, systems, and processes
• Exhibits critical thinking skills, high energy, disciplined organizational skills and sound judgment.
• Strong influencing, collaboration, oral and written communications skills
• Highly organized with strong project management skills
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable, moving and managing projects with different objectives, milestones, and deliverables.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field with 8+ years financial planning and analysis experience OR Master’s degree in Finance or related field with 6+ years financial planning and analysis experience
• Strong system knowledge, with preference in SAP and MS Office Suite products
• Experience with tracking, measuring and identifying improvements and solutions.

Preferred Requirements

• Biotech or Pharmaceutical industry experience
• Experience using Tableau or other BI tools.
• Experience leading and facilitating group p