Cost Analyst

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The Cost Analyst plays a vital role in supporting the financial operations of the United States Playing Card plant in Erlanger, Kentucky. This position helps ensure our financial results are accurate, timely, and aligned with operational performance. You’ll partner closely with production, planning, sales, and management teams to provide insights that drive better decision ‑ making across the plant. Accountability, accuracy and timeliness are critical to success in this role.

• Play a key role of the monthly financial close, including journal entries, account reconciliations, reclasses, accruals, purchase price variances, and utility/freight capture.
• Deliver weekly and monthly performance reporting for scrap, KPIs, and operational spend.
• Support forecast and budget activities with accurate, data ‑ driven analysis.
• Prepare required monthly, quarterly, and annual government reports and assist with external audit requests.

• Set up daily standard costs for new parts (cards, games, accessories) and review/approve custom casino card costing. Collaborate with sales, production, and data maintenance to ensure costing reflects actual processes.
• Key contributor to the monthly inventory close: run reports, validate data accuracy, identify trends or discrepancies, and communicate findings.
• Help manage the ongoing cycle count process—including daily worksheet tracking—and support quarterly, semi ‑ annual, and annual count procedures.
• Participate in annual physical inventory audits as needed.

• Ensure key financial controls are followed and documented consistently.
• Maintain accurate documentation of capital expenditures (CAPEX), ensuring proper sales tax treatment and compliance with corporate CAPEX policies and guidelines.
• Work with plant teams to review open purchase orders and ensure expenses are captured in the correct periods.
• Prepare and review journal entries in accordance with US GAAP.
• Provide ad ‑ hoc reporting and analysis to the Plant Controller and leadership teams.
• Build strong partnerships across all functional areas and maintain a high level of professional expertise.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• 1 to 3 years professional work experience
• Basic accounting knowledge (US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)
• Standard costing experience a plus
• Developing analytical skills, high concern for accuracy, and highly organized
• Ability to self-start, prioritize work, and follow through on the details
• Excel skills must include VLOOKUPS, Pivot Tables, SUMIFS, If/Then Statements
• Experience with standard cost rolls, month-end accounting closing including preparation of journal entries.
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience with SAP preferred
• Experience with Salesforce and/or Power BI

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Proficient with Excel, Microsoft Office and other required company software (SAP)
• Problem‑solving skills.
• Must be able to handle and safeguard sensitive and proprietary information in a confidential manner

Results: We are committed to delivering world‑class results and value for all our stakeholders. We strive to align communication, people, culture, processes, resources and systems to ensure effective implementation and delivery of exceptional business results.

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