The Cost Analyst plays a pivotal role in the Maintenance and Reliability work processes. This position achieves this by tracking maintenance costs, monitoring performance indicators, and identifying opportunities for value creation. This role collaborates closely with finance, project managers, operations, and maintenance engineering teams to deliver expense projects and maintenance activities.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate in establishing and managing maintenance cost control systems for accurate cost information.
• Lead the value creation program for Maintenance and Reliability, identifying opportunities and presenting cases to the Leadership Team. Track savings from active initiatives.
• Develop effective maintenance cost reports from SAP or other tools. Also, ensure a reliable APM cost related interphase with SAP and cost metrics.
• Update the maintenance spending forecast for maintenance and reliability-related expenses.
• Actively participate and support the month-end closure processes and monthly budget meetings.
• Identify monthly cost accruals for maintenance-related expenditures with the maintenance and operations teams.
• Support the Maintenance and Reliability budget-setting process, aligning the budget with requirements.
• Maintain monthly key performance indicators for Maintenance and Reliability, contributing to effective decision-making.
• Participate in the Bad Actors program, identifying high-cost maintenance assets and supporting effective actions.
• Ensure cost allocation accuracy in the maintenance planning and scheduling process, adhering to business rules.
• Serve as a backup for the Track Administrator role.
• Collaborate with the Track Administrator to track maintenance techs’ overtime, manage reasonable overtime costs, and maintain updated justification reports.
• Train the Maintenance and Reliability team on cost-related transactions in SAP.
• Participate in daily Maintenance Scheduling meetings, seeking process improvements.
• Perform other duties as assigned based on business needs.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Project controls, or related field.
• 3+ years of chemical plant/refinery experience or similar.
• Ability to work in high performing teams.
• Must be able to read contracts, quotes ad terms and conditions.
• Must have strong Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, sorts, filters, etc.
• Ability to develop and troubleshoot complex formulas, links, and understand complex spreadsheets is a must.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are required. The role will involve direct interface with a variety of functions within the company and contractors.
• Ability to interface and communicate clearly and effectively (both orally and written) across all levels of the organization, including senior management; ability to read and interpret company policies and regulatory guidance.
• Ability to prioritize work and stakeholder requests in a time sensitive/turnaround environment.
• Proficiency with all applications within Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to abide by confidentiality requirements when working with sensitive information.
• Functional knowledge SAP R3 or higher
• Must be able to work independently with strong time management and organizational skills.
• Being a self-starter is essential. The candidate will have strong problem-solving capabilities and can independently work through complex problems and derive innovative solutions/options.
• Able to effectively handle stressful situations.
• Strong aptitude towards utilizing, supporting, and learning applications/systems.