**Position Identification****Position Title**Cost Accountant**Job Code**:Click here to enter text.**Organization**:GTS**Department**:Finance**Location***:Monterrey**Reports to**:Plant Controller**PURPOSE OF POSITION****About us**Stanley Black & Decker Corporation is the largest tool manufacturer in the world. Our industrial businesses serve clients whose primary market drivers are automotive repair and industrial manufacturing. We cover military, mining, transit, agriculture, energy, aviation, and manufacturing, to start. Our industrial tool businesses build the tools that build your world. We can bring the strength of the world's largest tool company to provide multi-platform solutions to the automotive and industrial repair industry. We believe that we can make this happen and we would like you to be part of our mission. As a world leader, Stanley Black & Decker can bring together the best of science, technology, business and human resources to continue to grow and succeed in our marketplace.The cost accountant is responsible for analyzing and understanding manufacturing costs and working with the controller to provide monthly summaries of manufacturing finances to the organization. You will play a key role in ensuring that the organization's manufacturing costs are properly understood and communicated, as well as assisting with budgeting, standard cost lists, variance analysis, and special projects**MAJOR RESPONSABILITIES**- Creates and publishes monthly summaries of manufacturing costs, including details on efficiencies, production variances, and special initiatives aimed at reducing costs.- Performs cost analysis for new and existing products, in cooperation with design engineering, methods, purchasing, planning, and manufacturing engineering. Work to identify actual versus standard cost discrepancies and close or update key ingredients needed to support accurate costs. Track and publish cost and inventory metrics.- Meets regularly with key stakeholders to review actual budget variances and facilitates the creation of action plans to close budget gaps.- Supports annual plan, long-term plan, and quarterly forecasts, collaborating with a variety of organizational stakeholders to anticipate changes in revenue, expense, or capital forecasts.- Supports special projects, including the preparation of recommendations for policy, procedure, control, or action.