Job brief

The Cost Accountant is a critical role to ensure success in leading cost savings initiatives, understanding profitability by platform-by-product, and serves as a key financial partner to Production, Supply chain, Operations, and Sales functions. This role helps influence company decision-making by performing complex analyses and presenting recommendations based on these analyses to senior leadership. The Cost Accountant is also responsible for the calculation of regional cost standards and manages the process for calculating COGS for the monthly/annual operating plan and revised forecasts.

We are located in the Free Trade Zone in Cartagena and require a bilingual Cost Accountant with at least 3 years of professional experience and knowledge of the accounting processes in Colombia and the Free Trade Zone to perform the following functions:
Responsibilities
- Accounting of accounting movements: bank reconciliations, purchases, portfolio.
- Management and preparation of taxes (Withholdings, VAT, income tax).
- Control the accounting system and records.




- Carry out the process of purchasing consumables, ppe, among others to ensure the good performance of the operation.
- Register all suppliers and make payments according to the guidelines of the management of the operation.
- Experience and Knowledge of Magnetic Media.
- Manage regional cost accounting function and inventory accounting for all products. Ensure accurate calculations of monthly raw material price and usage variances as well as vigente production costs compared to standard costs. Responsible for allocation of certain budgets in Controlling (CO) and Profitability Analysis.
- Confirm analysis of factors driving variances and issue commentary to upper management explaining variances. Provide clear information on cost and budget allocations. Prepare operational metrics and recurring management reporting. Manage the reconciliation of the annual physical inventory count to the general ledger.
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📌 Cost Accountant (Cartagena)
🏢 Peachtree Networks
📍 Cartagena