Cost Accountant

Job Title : Cost Accountant

Location : Manesar, Haryana.

Department : Finance / Costing — Reports to Director.

About Benz Packaging Solutions :

Benz Packaging Solutions is a leading packaging-manufacturing company. We deliver sustainable, high-quality packaging products to diverse clients, and emphasize process excellence, cost discipline, and continuous improvement. As we scale, we need a sharp Cost Accountant to anchor our costing practices and support margin growth.

Role Summary

You will own the costing function for our plant(s). You will develop, maintain, analyze, and improve costing systems, provide variance insights, support pricing & decision making, and drive cost optimization across operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish, maintain, and update standard costs (materials, labour, overhead) and appropriate allocation bases.
• Analyze variances (material, labor, overhead) vs standards / budgets, explain root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
• Collaborate with production, engineering, procurement teams to validate / update BOMs, routings, yield losses, scrap assumptions.
• Handle inventory & WIP accounting : physical counts, reconciliation, variances, reserve / write-offs, adjustment entries.
• Participate in month-end / quarter-end / year-end closing for cost of goods sold, allocations, accruals, and prepare cost reports.
• Support budgeting & forecasting for manufacturing cost centers; highlight cost trends and risk areas.
• Provide cost input to pricing, quoting, new product introduction (should-cost / make-vs-buy analysis).
• Drive cost reduction initiatives , process improvements, automation in costing workflows & reporting.
• Ensure internal controls in costing / inventory, assist in audits, and document costing policies / assumptions.
• Ad hoc analysis & support to leadership around margin, product profitability, cost scenarios.

Required Qualifications & Skills

Preferred / Plus

Skills Required

Power Bi, Advanced Excel, Tableau, Bi Reporting Tools, Variance Analysis