Cost Analyst / Manufacturing Finance AnalystDepartment: Finance

Location: Tijuana, Mexico

Reports to: Cost Accounting Supervisor / Finance

Position SummaryWe are looking for a highly analytical and motivated Cost Analyst / Manufacturing Finance Analyst to join our Finance team in a manufacturing environment.

This position is adecuado for someone early in their career who has strong analytical skills, enjoys understanding how manufacturing processes work, and wants to develop expertise in cost accounting, SAP and financial analytics.

The successful candidate does not need to be an expert in manufacturing costing on day one. We are looking for someone with strong fundamentals, curiosity, attention to detail and the ability to learn complex processes.

The role will initially support our current costing processes while progressively helping the organization improve, document and automate them.

Key ResponsibilitiesCost Accounting

- Support the calculation and analysis of standard manufacturing costs.
- Analyze material, labor, overhead and manufacturing cost components.
- Support monthly cost accounting and closing activities.
- Analyze purchase price variances (PPV).
- Analyze manufacturing spending, volume and absorption variances.
- Support product and SKU-level cost analysis.
- Assist with inventory valuation and reconciliations.
- Support cycle-count and physical-inventory analysis.
- Investigate significant cost variances and coordinate findings with Operations.

Manufacturing Finance
- Work closely with Production, Engineering, Supply Chain and Purchasing to understand the financial impact of manufacturing decisions.
- Develop an understanding of BOMs, routings, labor standards, machine rates, scrap, yield and production volumes.
- Support cost-reduction and productivity initiatives.




- Develop financial analyses that help Operations identify opportunities for improvement.
- Support evaluation of new products, manufacturing processes and changes to existing processes.

SAP & Costing Systems
- Learn and support the standard-costing process within SAP.
- Support reconciliation between existing costing calculations and SAP.
- Assist with master-data validation related to costing, including:
- Material master
- BOM
- Routing
- Work centers
- Cost centers
- Activity rates
- Participate in projects to progressively improve the integration of manufacturing costing within SAP.

Data & Automation
- Maintain and improve existing Excel-based costing models.
- Use Power Query to automate repetitive data preparation and reconciliation activities.
- Develop standardized financial analyses and reports.
- Support development of reporting using tools such as Excel, Power BI, SAP and Essbase/Smart View.
- Identify manual activities that can be simplified or automated.

QualificationsRequired
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Industrial Engineering or related field.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong Excel skills.
- Comfortable working with large datasets.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability and willingness to learn manufacturing processes.
- Ability to communicate with Finance and Operations.
- English proficiency sufficient to work in a multinational environment.

Preferred, but NOT required
- 1–3 years of experience in Finance, Accounting, Manufacturing or Data Analytics.
- Exposure to SAP.
- Exposure to manufacturing costing.
- Power Query or Power BI.
- Experience working with BOMs, production data or inventory.
- Basic SQL knowledge.

SAP costing experience is desirable but not required. Training and development will be provided.

📌 Cost Analyst (Ciudad de México)
🏢 ZEISS Group
📍 Ciudad de México