• *Cost Analyst**
• *Location: Remote**
• *Duration: Long Term**
• *Job Descriptions:**
• Support cost management in early engagement NPI up to mass production. This includes both BOM and non-BOM cost variables such as MVA, Logistics, Warranty, Support, and Capex
• Organize our data to uncover deeper insights, identifying cost drivers within the design and potential avenues for cost reduction.
• Expected to independently manage routine assessments and reporting.
• Candidates will partner with full-time employees on strategic initiatives (like should-cost) aimed at enhancing early-stage cost engagement across design and supply chain operations.
• *Your Roles and Responsibilities:**
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to retrieve engineering BOM and operational inputs for costing purposes.
• Ensure Inputs are structured and managed within our internal tools for downstream operations, historicals, and comparative analysis.
• Act as the primary custodian for product and program cost data, documenting all change justifications and ensuring they correspond to cost variances.
• Collaborate with PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and Engineering team to reconcile changes upstream within the design tool and our PLM system.
• Triage new components to our global supplier managers for cost inputs such as lead-time, MOQ, unit cost.
• Manage cost opportunities & risk associated with both BOM and non-BOM for individual products / programs
• Track workstreams to ensure headwinds are mitigated, and opportunities (design/supply-chain) are realized.
• Assist in generating bi-weekly/monthly product cost reports for senior leadership. Reports will provide performance metrics against our financial targets.
• Be proactive in reviewing information, identifying inconsistencies, trends and issues for management.
• Help to prepare communications to management and executive teams on areas of concern and actions required to meet financial commitments.
• Help handle automation of reporting within the group; assist in the assessment and implementation of decision support tools
• Other duties as required. This list is not meant to be a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities assigned to this position
• *Minimum Qualifications/Skills:**
• Must work PST hours
• Capable of synthesizing raw big data efficiently for a multitude of use-cases
• Excellent in spreadsheet(Excel/Google sheet) skills, vlookup, pivot table, sumif etc....
• Experience building cost models, analyzing cost trends, and assessing opportunities and risk for new or early-stage product development
• Strong written, interpersonal and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree (B.S/B.A) from a four-year college or university and 4 to 6 years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience