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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cost Analyst - Manufacturing
About the role
The compensation for this position is between $70, 800 and $88,500 annually, based on experience and qualifications.
Job Summary This role is responsible for maintaining accurate and timely financial information for multiple entities across North America, supporting monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting cycles. The Cost Analyst will contribute to financial consolidation, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and special projects, including ERP system transitions.
Key Responsibilities Perform financial analysis and analytical reviews on a monthly, quarterly, and year-end basis.
- Prepare and upload journal entries into ERP systems.
- Update, review, and analyze internal financial statements.
- Prepare, review, and submit reporting packages to the parent company.
- Serve as a point of contact for questions related to reporting packages.
- Prepare management reports and dashboards.
- Perform intercompany confirmations and reconciliations.
- Ensure accuracy in multi-currency and intercompany transactions.
- Participate in the budgeting and forecasting processes as required.
- Support the transition to new ERP systems, ensuring data integrity and process alignment.
- Assist in adapting financial processes and tools to new systems.
- Identify and implement initiatives to improve, automate, and scale financial reporting tools and methodologies.
- Assist with annual inventory counts (travel may be required).
- Support ad hoc financial analysis and special projects as needed.
- Understand sector requirements, priorities, and strategy of corporate function teams to deliver tailored financial reporting and insights
- Perform root cause analysis and develop action plans to address financial gaps between expected and actual performance
- Assist in developing tools and reports that enhance financial decision-making across the organization
- Coordinate and validate weekly financial reports, including variance explanations and investigations
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance (CPA designation preferred).
- 2–3 years of relevant experience in financial reporting or analysis.
- Experience with large organizations, foreign currency transactions, and intercompany accounting is an asset.
- Strong knowledge of IFRS.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Experience with ERP and BI systems (e.g., IBM TM1, Cognos Controller, SAP S/4HANA) is a strong asset.
- Strong analytical and communication skills.
- High attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Proactive and adaptable to change.
- Collaborates with internal stakeholders including Finance team members, Accounting, Operations, and IT.
- Liaises with external auditors during financial audits and year-end processes.
- Coordinates with parent company representatives for reporting and compliance.
- Works closely with business unit leaders to gather financial data and provide insights.
- Partners with ERP and BI system administrators during system transitions and upgrades.
IPEX is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for IPEX jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at HR@ipexna.com
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About IPEX Group of Companies
Honesty, fairness, integrity, the golden rule: a customer-first culture. Customers want it- even demand it. And it's so easy to promise.
This is ‘distance race' thinking, and building a business on it is harder than you might think. It requires you to sacrifice many short-term opportunities for gain. It means spending whatever time it takes to help a client solve a problem on deadline. It means resisting the urge to cut corners on materials that, once in place, no one will ever see.
It means innovation: going beyond what your customers want or expect, and working restlessly to create new products and ideas to fill unmet needs. It means keeping your word, even when it's inconvenient, and honouring relationships over transactions, even when it costs. And it means building a team with people who believe it, live it, and stand by it.
At IPEX we've long-since made a decision to embrace this long-term thinking, not just when it's easy, but every day, in everything we do, for every customer and every employee. We don't do it because we're nice people, though we like to think we are. We do it because it's good business, and that the reputation we've built over time, job by job, one customer at a time, pays the best dividends.
Alex Mestres Chairman & Chief Executive Officer