In principal this role will manage costing activities in Finance Accounting of manufacturing company.
Responsible for setting up and maintenance of accurate process cost information, reconciliation of standard costs to actual costs, maintenance of perpetual inventory system, participating in the month end close and budgeting process.
Looks at each element involved in a specific project so you can track profitability of each one. Compare to estimates. By analyzing how successfully you manage estimates, you can better price jobs in the future. The purpose of job costing is to ascertain the profit or loss made on each job. Evaluating, estimating, budgeting, monitoring, analyzing, forecasting and reporting the cost information