Emplacement : El Salto Plant
Représentant de l'acquisition des talents de Goodyear: SONIA NIETO
**Cost Manager, El Salto, Jalisco**
Position: Cost Control Manager
**Principle Duties and Responsibilities**:
The Cost Control Manager reports directly to the Plant Internal Controller who reports functionally to the México Controller.
The Cost Control Manager has the primary responsibility to prepare monthly, quarterly and year end cost reporting is timely and accurate. This position is responsible for the accounting analysis, monthly cost closing, physical inventories in all Goodyear sites, compliance with SOX, company policies, and USGAAP and Local GAAP
Responsible for the cost reporting processes accurate and timely. This includes the monthly, quarterly and annual cost closing procedures, account reconciliations, and establishing judgmental reserve balances. Ensure processes are in compliance with U.S. GAAP and Company Policies.
Also, Cost Control Manager is responsible for supervise and managing the activities performed by the Fixed Asset Analyst, related to Fixed Assets / CAPEX projects accounting matters, including capitalization and expenses segregation, cost control reports, budgets control, policy and SOX compliance, actual and budgeted depreciation, capital interest calculation under US GAAP and local GAAP and all activities that can have effect over budget figures and evolution, CAPEX, cash flow, Actual Cost, etc.
Following are the principals duties of the position:
- Ensure controls, external and SOX audit gaps identifed are remediated on a timely basis.
- Identify possible controls gaps and opportunities to design and develop strong internal control in Fixed Assets, Inventory, and cost process
- Responsible for Actual cost close activities, including Cost Conversion and Material Ledger.
- Responsible for updating materials Standard Cost in a monthly basis, including analysis between prior month.
- Ensure all the accruals are properly recognized in the proper period.
- For each full wall-to-wall physical inventory and for each cycle count (or at least on a monthly basis), assure all controls and procedures outlined in accounting policy are executed.
- Participates at least on a quarterly basis to observe the cycle procedures being performed.
- Walk the location at least monthly and inquire to determine that all excess, obsolescence and scrap have been identified, including molds and items identified as work-away.
- Perform analytic procedures comparing Inventory levels, Fixed assets movements vs Prior Month, Prior Quarter close, Prior year month, etc, to send to corporate explanations of variances identified of the analyzed periods, to identify possible misstatements in Company financial position.
- Perform analytical procedures comparing actual waste to budgeted waste month over month.
- Ensure the waste reported by the plant are aligned with the waste policy
- Walk the floor at least monthly and note any visible stacks of work-away or waste that are growing. Ensure that amounts are properly accounted for and any necessary valuation allowances are recorded.
- Understanding the main reasons of the variances between budgeted and previous periods, to inform to local and corporate management in cost saving opportunities or risk of financial losses
- Idle asset, Surplus and obsolete inventory review to avoid financial loss.
- Coordinate with several operating departments to ensure adequate internal control compliance.
- Approval and review of Company purchases orders to ensure they are aligned to the Financial plan.
- Reconciliation of Financial accounts to identify the detail and the aging of the reviewed accounts.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to costs processes and systems.
- Responsible for the upkeep and upgrades of the costs systems and for costs initiatives.
- Work with finance leadership to identify actionable cost reduction and cash flow generation opportunities.
- Prepare executives summary of risk/opportunities identified
- Ensuring the adequate accounting of the project activities, including review Fixed Asset Capitalization, depreciation an expense segregation under US GAAP and MEX GAAP
- Know scope and estimate by having cost and commitment reports updated.
- Budget / Project closeout to release assets to production and verify the capital and expenses are properly segregated.
- Ensure strong control environment (Corporate policies and SOX compliance).
- Review monthly Project Reports (cost information) to follow project's activities and capex figures.
- Review physically the equipment purchased by the Company to ensure the property acquired exist.
- Inspect the current projects in progress to ensure it is not still working. Periodic meeting with Plant engineers to understand the business need of the property acquired, track the progress of the open projects and analysis to understand the reasons projects need to still be open.
- Knowledge of the detail of a