Cost Accountant

Trivium Packaging is a global sustainability leader in metal packaging with more than 60 locations worldwide, nearly 8,000 employees, and an annual revenue of approximately €3.0 billion. Trivium serves a diverse range of customers in a variety of end markets such as food, seafood, pet food, nutrition, beauty and personal care, household care, and premium beverages.

Trivium wants to shape the industry and has embarked on an ambitious transformation journey. In the near term, focus is on building & upskilling the team, deciding where to play & how to win, and increasing financial performance by executing the Trivium Business System (commercial, operational, and supply chain excellence). Sustainability is embedded in our materials and in our actions. Trivium has ambitious sustainability targets and focuses exclusively on products that are infinitely recyclable. Our company sustainability journey has been awarded with a Platinum medal by EcoVadis, the world’s leading rating agent who allocated this award only to the top 1% of the >75000 companies reviewed. Sustainability is embedded in each and every function at Trivium, it‘s in our DNA. The global head office is at Amsterdam Airport; however, many people work in virtual teams from different countries. Our culture is results-driven, entrepreneurial, informal, and highly multicultural. Our people have a high degree of responsibility. 

Job Summary:

The Cost Accountant is responsible for overall support of the monthly closing process, analyzing results, and reporting information required by management to effectively operate the North American AAB business while also ensuring that corporate Group requirements are timely and accurately met. This role involves managing the inventory costing process, assisting in the preparation of forecasts and budgets, and interacting with various levels of management.

 

Job Duties:

• Participate in the month end closing activities:
  • BOM completion (updating BOMs, ensuring completeness of BOM attributes, updating market attributes, researching missing attributes, updating costing)
  • Production reporting and output costing
  • FG inventory valuation
  • Inventory reserve valuation
  • Usage variances (inventory roll forwards for materials)
  • GL account reconciliations
  • Journal Entry preparation and entry into SAGE
• Prepare Standard Management Reporting - Data gathering & Preparation:
  • Daily/Monthly Production reporting
  • Weekly/Monthly KPI reporting
  • Ad Hoc analysis to support operations
  • P&L cost analysis, checking variances from budget/forecast, bridges
  • BUR deck preparation/information and slides gathering and consolidating
  • Profitability Model (updating, maintaining, analyzing).
• Planning & Budgeting:
  • Preparing models (updating assumptions, rolling model M to M or Y to Y)
  • Gathering and consolidating information/input from operations and business
  • Analyzing, explaining, bridging, loading both forecast and budget in the HFM.
• Support internal and external auditing process:
  • Monthly Rhiza requests
  • Support YE Annual Audit