Posted 9 days ago
Cost Analyst
@ Robert Half
Brantford, Ontario
Overview
Robert Half is hiring a Cost Analyst for its client, a manufacturer in a high-growth facility supplying one of the world's largest retailers. The role owns BOM and product costing, manufacturing variance analysis, and finance-operations reporting in SAP S/4HANA and Power BI.
Pay:
$85,000–$110,000 a year
Responsibilities:
- Maintain accurate BOMs and product costing data
- Analyze yields, labour efficiency and standard cost variances
- Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly financial reporting
- Build reports and dashboards in Power BI and Excel
- Partner with plant leadership on performance improvement
Requirements summary:
- 3-5 years of BOM and product costing experience
- Hands-on SAP S/4HANA in a manufacturing environment
- Working knowledge of Power BI and advanced Excel
- Manufacturing and cost accounting knowledge
- Manufacturing experience required; food manufacturing preferred
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · careerpage
- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-28
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-29
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-29
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Finance & accounting |
| Experience | 3+ years |
| Work setting | Office, Plant or factory |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
Summary and details written by AI from the posting; the employer’s posting is the authority.
Robert Half
Saved company profile
Historical company information from a saved The Jobs API profile (LinkedIn/Crunchbase fields). It is not live-verified; figures may have changed. Missing values remain unknown.
Helping you find skilled candidates, in-demand jobs, and solutions you need to do your best work yet.
Full company description
🔒 At Robert Half, we prioritize your security—if you believe you've encountered a scam or fraudulent recruiter, please report it immediately to https://www.roberthalf.com/us/en/fraud-alert. All Robert Half recruiters communicate using their corporate email address, ending in roberthalf.com. 👋 Welcome to Robert Half. We're the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm, connecting opportunities at great companies with highly skilled job seekers. We provide dynamic contract, temporary, and permanent placement solutions across finance, accounting, technology, marketing, creative, legal, and administrative sectors. 🏆 In the last 12 months, Robert Half has been recognized as one of America’s Most Innovative Companies by Fortune, and with Protiviti, has been named one of the Fortune® World's Most Admired Companies™ and 100 Best Companies to Work For. 🏦 Traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: RHI), we’re at the forefront of innovation in talent acquisition.
- LinkedIn followers
- 4,724,671
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 27,769
- Reported office locations
- 2884 Sand Hill Road Suite 200, Menlo Park, CA 94025, US
- 2613 Camino Ramon, San Ramon, California 94583, US
- Robert Half International, Avenue Louise, 250 - 5th floor, Brussels, 1050, BE
- Robert Half International, 10th floor, The Shard, 32 London Bridge Street, London, London SE1 9SG, GB
- Robert Half International, Av. Dr. Cardoso de Melo, 1184, 11° andar, Sao Paulo, SP 04548-004, BR
- Robert Half International, Level 24, 1 Martin Place, Sydney, NSW 2000, AU
- 140 William St, Melbourne, VIC 3000, AU
- Avenida Doutor Cardoso de Melo 1184, São Paulo, BR
- 2613 Camino Ramon, San Ramon, CA 94583, US
- 20, Avenue André Prothin, Tour Europlaza, Courbevoie, Île-de-France 92400, FR
- Business categories
- Skill Assessment
- Human Resources
- Information Technology
- Employment
- Consulting
- Recruiting
- Marketing
- Security
- Advertising
- Staffing Agency
- Other recorded names
- Robert Half
- Robert Half
- Specialties
- consulting services
- accounting jobs
- finance jobs
- administrative jobs
- legal jobs
- IT jobs
- recruitment
- recruitment agency
- creative jobs
- staffing
- hiring
- employment agency
- contract talent
- contract professionals
- talent solutions
- contract employment
- permanent placement
- customer support jobs
- and marketing jobs
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
- Reported total investment
- 0
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
🔒 At Robert Half, we prioritize your security—if you believe you've encountered a scam or fraudulent recruiter, please report it immediately to https://www.roberthalf.com/us/en/fraud-alert. All Robert Half recruiters communicate using their corporate email address, ending in roberthalf.com. 👋 Welcome to Robert Half. We're the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm, connecting opportunities at…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Menlo Park, CA |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Year founded | 1948 |
| Specialties | consulting servicesaccounting jobsfinance jobsadministrative jobslegal jobsIT jobsrecruitmentrecruitment agencycreative jobsstaffing |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 509 |
| View page |
Are you a finance professional who enjoys working closely with operations and understanding how products are built from the ground up? Our client is seeking a Cost Analyst to join their team in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility supporting one of the world's largest retailers.
This is a highly visible role within an international organization where you'll partner with finance, operations, and commercial teams to drive profitability, improve costing accuracy, and support key business decisions. The position offers a unique blend of product costing, ERP systems management, financial analysis, and business partnering.
What You'll Do
- Own and maintain Bills of Materials (BOMs), ensuring costing data is accurate and up to date across all products.
- Manage product costing for both new product development (NPD) and existing product lines.
- Analyze manufacturing performance, including material yields, labour efficiency, overhead absorption, and standard costing variances.
- Partner with plant leadership to provide insights and recommendations that improve operational and financial performance.
- Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial and operational reporting.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting processes.
- Develop and enhance reporting and dashboards using Power BI and Excel.
- Ensure financial information within SAP S/4HANA and related systems is accurate and supports effective decision-making.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives, process enhancements, and ad hoc projects across the business.
- Present financial information to non-finance stakeholders and act as a key liaison between finance and operations.
Why Join?
- Work in a modern, high-growth manufacturing facility.
- Partner with one of the world's largest retail customers.
- Gain exposure to international operations and senior leadership.
- Highly collaborative environment with significant interaction across finance, operations, and commercial teams.
- Opportunity to make a direct impact on profitability, process improvement, and business performance.
What We're Looking For
- 3-5 years of hands-on Bill of Materials (BOM) and product costing experience.
- Strong experience with SAP S/4HANA in a manufacturing environment.
- Working knowledge of Power BI for reporting and data analysis.
- Solid understanding of manufacturing processes, ERP systems, and cost accounting principles.
- Advanced Excel skills and strong analytical capabilities.
- Ability to translate financial data into actionable business insights.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to build relationships across finance, commercial, and operational teams.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment required; cost-plus pricing experience is considered an asset.
- Food manufacturing experience is preferred.
Journal
Only you can see this. Kept on this device, and in your account when you sign in.