Cost and Production Analyst (CPA) - Plant Controller

Arbeitsorte: Graz, Villach, Weisskirchen oder Anger, Österreich. Vollzeit und unbefristet.

The Company

Imerys delivers mineral-based specialty solutions to industries and consumer goods sectors. The Group draws on application knowledge, technological expertise and material science to develop functional solutions from mineral resources, synthetic minerals and formulations. Imerys promotes environmentally friendly products and processes.

Position Summary

The Cost and Production Analyst (CPA) plays a pivotal role at the plant level, ensuring consistent standard cost calculations and monitoring while providing accurate financial data to support the Site Manager and BA Hub Controller. This role contributes directly to the site's P&L value creation by managing the monthly closing process and ensuring the maintenance of adequate internal control procedures. The CPA acts as a key financial partner to local operations, overseeing inventory and production-related financial reporting and capex analysis. The CPA runs appropriate operational and financial controls to improve process efficiency and profitability of the assets.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

Direct Responsibility: Site Closing and Local Audit

• Standard Costing: Calculate and update standard costs to ensure accurate product valuation.
• Operational Accounting: Calculate, book, or review operational journal entries, including inventories, mining, and activity accruals. Control the financial impact of the mining plan, including reserves and overburden assets, depletion and units of production.
• Month-End and Inventory Close: Perform month-end close activities focused on cost accounting, prepare monthly inventory postings, provide actual values for inventory calculations, and manage inventory reporting, forecasting, and potential write-down calculations.
• Internal Control: Define, maintain, and apply local internal control procedures for recording stock values and ensuring site-level process adherence.
• Stock: Manage physical stock reconciliation with the ERP system to ensure the balance sheet is properly stated. Review capital expenditure requests.
• Ledger Oversight: Oversee accounting ledgers, ensuring correct utilization of cost centers and General Ledger accounts.
• Audit Management: Coordinate local internal and external audit follow-up, specifically regarding inventory and fixed assets.
• Reporting and Compliance: Prepare and submit Statistics and Intrastat reports, and calculate or validate mining provisions for site restoration and dismantling.
• Inventory Counts and Projects: Assist with the yearly warehouse physical inventory count and participate in entity-level finance transformation projects, including SSC and SAP.

Management Accounting Support: Industrial Controlling

• Budgeting and Forecasting: Build site-level budgets and financial forecasts in alignment with group guidelines.
• Performance Reporting: Complete monthly plant reporting files and provide key messages to Industrial Controlling and local management regarding major cost deviations.
• Data Analysis: Extract necessary ERP data, including energy consumption, mining and inventory data, and perform ad hoc analysis to improve cost and production performance.
• Process Collaboration: Provide financial explanations and data to support the BA Hub Controller and Site Manager monthly and during periodical planning processes.

Key Competencies

• Deep knowledge of accounting principles, including GAAP and IFRS, and local laws and regulations.
• Proficiency in financial software, particularly SAP S4Hana, database tools, and Google Workspace, specifically Excel/Sheets.
• Ability to handle complex financial information, prioritize multiple tasks, and meet tight deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to create bonds, inspire trust, and work in a collaborative, cross-functional setting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey financial data to peers and senior management.
• Proficient in English and German.
• Results orientation balancing financial discipline, operational efficiency, and stakeholder expectations.
• High standards of professional conduct, accountability, compliance, honesty, and transparency.

Background and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance, or equivalent accounting diploma.
• Minimum 3–5 years of experience in cost accounting, General Ledger, or as a Cost Analyst/Plant Controller in an industrial context, with demonstrated ability to manage autonomous closing of books.

Application

Only applications submitted through the online application process will be considered.