Cost Analyst

**Who We Are**

Promark Solutions is a full-service IT Company providing Managed IT Services, IT Consulting, and Cyber Security solutions to corporations. Our goal is to provide our clients with a world-class customer experience while enabling them to scale securely and efficiently with a trusted IT partner.

**Job brief**

We are looking for a cost analyst to help us audit our expenses and find ways to make our operations more cost-efficient.

You’ll be the go-to person for cost analysis and you’ll get to prepare reports to help management make better decisions. To do this job well, we’d like you to be well-versed in data and financial analysis, and have strong attention to detail.

Ultimately, your job will be an integral part of our efforts to ensure profitability and business success.

**Responsibilities**
- Gather and analyze financial data
- Determine standard costs and investigate variances with actual costs
- Prepare detailed reports, both periodically and ad-hoc
- Help management make important decisions based on costs and benefits (e.g. investments, market growth, pricing changes)
- Create and manage budgets, and monitor spending
- Conduct audits on financial processes and transactions
- Monitor changes in processes or methods to calculate effects on overall costs
- Estimate product costs for existing and new products
- Forecast and analyze costs of processes, labor and inventory

**Requirements and skills**
- Proven experience as a cost analyst, cost specialist or similar role
- Experience in data, operational and financial analysis
- Knowledge of accounting processes and software
- Strong analytical skills
- A business acumen
- Great attention to detail
- Good communication aptitude
- Degree in Finance, Accounting or similar field

Pay: $45,426.63-$93,521.11 per year

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- RRSP match
- VRSP

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Red Deer, AB T4P 0M3: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Accounting: 1 year (required)