Manufacturing Cost Accountant Analyst

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Dow has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Manufacturing Cost Accountant Analyst , based in São Paulo (Brazil). The selected candidate will ensure accounting activity recorded within the company’s records and books are accurate and complete. Responsible for budgeting, product costing, recording, reporting, analyzing, and communicating functional/business activity results.

About you and this role - What you would do in this role  

In this role, you will require conceptual knowledge of theories, practices, and procedures as well as having general business knowledge developed through education or prior experience related to your discipline and functional area. You will need to have the ability to exchange straightforward information with others and ask questions to check for understanding. It is your responsibility to use established procedures and practice to analyze and resolve standard problems. You will be accountable for assigned contributions with no direct supervisory responsibilities. Your performance impacts your own work with limited impact on your team. You will need to use established procedures and practices to achieve objectives and meet deadlines. Responsibilities:

Ensures financial statements accurately reflect the results of operations and the financial position of the Company.

Assists the function/business management teams in financial analysis necessary for decision-making.

Records, monitors, reports, and communicates function/business results, and ensures activity is accurate, complete, and compliant to accounting standards.

Completes product costing of materials, reviews for variances, and corrects/communicates results to business/plant management.

Performs product inventory reviews and fixed assets reviews.

Provides financial analysis to function/business management teams as needed for project studies, options analysis, and productivity/benchmarking measurements.

Establishes and maintains an ongoing working relationship with other sub-processes and functions.

Helps facilitate the budget setting process and monthly/quarterly estimate process.

Manage algorithmic execution, and use data insights to help achieve an ideal pricing alignment with business guidelines and strategies.

Conduct implementation shortfall analysis, and contribute to the financial performance by reducing execution cost and minimizing opportunity cost.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Business Administration, engineering, or similar.

2 or 3 years of prior work experience.

Strong analytical skills.

Capacity to prioritize tasks to meet strict deadlines.

Discipline in applying accounting policies and procedures.

Team spirit and collaboration mindset.

Effective communication and interpersonal skills.

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Benefits – What Dow offers you 

We invest in you. 

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee: 

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives. 
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it. 
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
• Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building. 
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs. 
• Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
• Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
• Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation. 

Join our team, we can make a difference together. 

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting .

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on .

As a Manufacturing Cost Accountant Analyst, you will live and work around Sao Paulo (BRA), São Paulo, Brazil: