COST MANAGER RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: August 26, 2024 - The Cost Manager is tasked with providing monthly operating and management reports, analyzing trends, and evaluating financial performance across multiple plant locations. Responsibilities include supervising detailed financial analyses for special projects and routine cost accounting to ensure accuracy in product pricing and ledger entries. The role also involves preparing comprehensive audit schedules and product accountability summaries to enhance the precision of manufacturing yield and operational performance reporting.

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1. Cost Manager, Trenton Industries, Trenton, NJ

Job Summary: 

  • Works in collaboration with all departments to develop and maintain the company-wide Cost Accounting program
  • Seeks business solutions by proposing and implementing actionable improvements in systems, processes and structure to uphold the integrity of data inputs and outputs and fix inefficient non-value-added work methods
  • Determines actual farming and packaging costs, including raw material purchases, land allocations, operations investments and outputs, inventory, labor and overhead (direct and indirect)
  • Develops and shares applicable decision-making records, models, metrics and reports
  • Develops operations team to effectively evaluate gross margin by leading the accumulation and organization of data and assisting with interpretation of costing data
  • Identifies and compares costs and variances such as productivity, process, spend, customer contribution margins affecting prices and profitability of products or services
  • Prepares regular reports in adherence to the defined schedule and provides analysis and interpretation in operations meetings of actuals versus budget, forecast and prior year
  • Ensure site lists, authorised signatories lists are kept up to date
  • Ensure cost policies are highlighted to new staff within region.
  • Ensure that on completion of contract that all costs are closed out.
  • Monitor the orders raised by site to ensure procedures are followed and coordinate users within the region.


Skills on Resume:

  • Cost Accounting Development (Hard Skills)
  • Process Optimization (Hard Skills)
  • Cost Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Data Reporting (Hard Skills)
  • Team Development (Soft Skills)
  • Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Policy Management (Hard Skills)
  • Collaborative Coordination (Soft Skills)

2. Cost Manager, Maxwell Construction, Boise, ID

Job Summary: 

  • Preparing detailed cost estimates from early design stage through construction documents phase
  • Understanding of construction contracts and contract management practices, able to negotiate contract terms and review these with the client/contractor.
  • Maintain and control budget from design concept through to project completion.
  • Visiting active construction project sites and confirming progress is consistent with the project schedule and other project documentation.
  • Change management and control for total project cost (GC’s, direct suppliers, and professional appointments)
  • Analyze subconsultant and contractor cost proposals and pay applications for accuracy and adherence to contract terms.
  • Identify potential risks and use a risk-based approach to develop time and cost estimates for these risks.
  • Present results of cost analyses to senior staff and clients.
  • Responsible for ensuring all performance reporting including KPI, risk, and financial analysis are accurate and represent project/program performance.
  • Responsible for identifying performance trends and issues and communicating to the client.
  • Independently perform scope, quantity, and/or unit cost reconciliations 
  • Overall management responsibility for the schedule and budget control processes and the review of report data presented to the client.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Cost Estimation (Hard Skills)
  • Contract Negotiation (Hard Skills)
  • Budget Management (Hard Skills)
  • Site Inspection (Hard Skills)
  • Change Management (Hard Skills)
  • Risk Management (Hard Skills)
  • Performance Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Client Communication (Soft Skills)

3. Cost Manager, Beacon Manufacturing Group, Duluth, MN

Job Summary: 

  • Responsible for assisting with the management of the costs within the allotted region. 
  • Visiting the sites in the allotted regions, auditing, and providing advice and guidance on Costs.
  • Monthly review costs to ensure that all the site costs are allocated correctly Including monthly review with the Commercial Team
  • Act as Account Manager for the allotted suppliers
  • Visit the site and review plant and materials costs with site management
  • Distribute weekly plant returns including addressing those staff that have not responded including updating the plant returns report on PIM weekly
  • Review live plant hires with site including reviewing equipment usage and look at areas can make savings by using alternative suppliers or offering alternatives to purchasing items
  • Physically checking the plant on site during site visits.
  • Instigate and coordinate the Damage and Loss procedure to resolution promptly including addressing staff that fail to respond
  • Review issues created by site in relation to missing tickets or problems with the paperwork, plant and issues with materials supplier
  • Recording of site assets, auditing, tracking and monitoring ensuring procedures are followed.


Skills on Resume:

  • Cost Management (Hard Skills)
  • Site Auditing (Hard Skills)
  • Supplier Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
  • Cost Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Communications Management (Soft Skills)
  • Problem Resolution (Soft Skills)
  • Asset Tracking (Hard Skills)
  • Compliance Monitoring (Hard Skills)

4. Senior Cost Manager, Riverside Technologies, Reno, NV

Job Summary: 

  • Working across client base to establish relationships and develop a cost management and commercial team proposition.
  • Maintenance, improvement and use of a Unit Cost Database.
  • Pricing of Business Plans for Water Companies
  • Assurance and validation of 3rd party cost estimates.
  • Growing, developing and managing a team of Cost Managers for a wide range of clients and at all stages of projects.
  • Communicating and liaising effectively with colleagues, contracting engineers, subcontractors, sub-consultants and clients.
  • Working with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects within agreed timeframes and budgets and to exceed clients’ expectations.
  • Reporting the Commercial Manager responsibilities of the position will include:
  • Assist with the development implementation of robust cost allocation processes
  • Ensure that cost strategies are adhered to and commercial strategy are followed
  • Develop excellent professional relationships with the supply chain and managers within the business to ensure the best possible flow of communication at all times
  • Analysis and review of costs using information management systems to ensure accuracy and rectifying identified inaccuracies.
  • Provide support during CVRs and cost forecasting weeks


Skills on Resume:

  • Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
  • Database Management (Hard Skills)
  • Cost Estimation (Hard Skills)
  • Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
  • Project Coordination (Soft Skills)
  • Cost Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Strategic Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)

5. Senior MEP Cost Manager, Summit Financial Solutions, Fargo, ND

Job Summary: 

  • Support CO+I DISC Procurement with delivery and execution of supply chain strategy
  • Provision of commercial and procurement support for the development and execution of OFCI project POR's, Regional bids and primary and secondary POR's
  • Support with Regional commercial OFCI strategy as it relates to OFCI categories
  • Provide Commercial and procurement support to the project Support process improvement initiatives as scale in region and execute in multiple countries
  • Support claim resolution when required and audit site commercial OFCI execution
  • Support teams for the management and validation of executed supplier POR's
  • Track and report each week, the progress of RFP activities, CDE approval status, POR routing status and those DISC procurement activities as detailed in the DISC purchasing
  • Provide daily support to the routine business of DISC team, and assist with process development and continuous improvement
  • Coordinate with the scheduling teams to ensure PORs are aligned with site requirements and ROJ dates
  • Manage any escalations from suppliers, GC or the site teams and coordinate issue resolution with the various stakeholders


Skills on Resume:

  • Supply Chain Strategy (Hard Skills)
  • Commercial Procurement (Hard Skills)
  • Project Management (Hard Skills)
  • Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
  • Conflict Resolution (Soft Skills)
  • Reporting and Analytics (Hard Skills)
  • Stakeholder Coordination (Soft Skills)
  • Continuous Improvement (Hard Skills)

6. EMEA Plant Cost Manager, Pine Valley Engineering, Little Rock, AR

Job Summary: 

  • Building and managing team
  • Leading on month-end close activities with the focus on continuous process improvement
  • Cooperation with other finance and non-finance teams, as well as external providers
  • Updating shared processes, tools, and reporting activities
  • Overseeing team which will cooperating with local plant controllers 
  • Ensure accounting processes reflect properly plant performance
  • Reviewing and approving account reconciliations in blackline
  • Leading the review of plant-related reserves such as E&O, standing cap, or discards
  • Supporting local, regional, and global projects by providing financial expertise


Skills on Resume:

  • Team Management (Soft Skills)
  • Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
  • Account Reconciliation (Hard Skills)
  • Performance Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Project Management (Hard Skills)
  • Financial Expertise (Hard Skills)

7. Cost Manager, Horizon Builders, Charleston, WV

Job Summary: 

  • Lead the offer calculation process including validating the input for consistency, quality and transparency
  • Lead the calculation review and approval process
  • Ensures timely calculation completeness and adherence to cost approval process with expert/input functions
  • Ensure that the optimal sourcing from a cost perspective is used
  • Make regular reviews of cost developments in the region and provide input to streamline bidding effort according to productivity and cost-out targets.
  • Ensure cost comparison and explanation of cost deltas for different project scopes during the sales phase
  • Contribute to strong, competitive cost solutions by ensuring a high transparency and clarity on costing options
  • Drive commercial value & excellence through participation in knowledge sharing and feedback loops.
  • Review of the site costs to highlight areas where cost saving can be made.
  • Review the operated plant and labour timesheets with site management ensuring that the hours represented are a true reflection of the hours worked.
  • Review the cost and invoice queries assisting the Transaction Processing Managers to resolve the queries promptly


Skills on Resume:

  • Cost Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Financial Forecasting (Hard Skills)
  • Process Management (Hard Skills)
  • Cost Optimization Strategies (Hard Skills)
  • Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
  • Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
  • Collaborative Decision-Making (Soft Skills)
  • Effective Communication (Soft Skills)

8. Assistant Cost Manager, Sterling Corp, Lincoln, NE

Job Summary: 

  • Preparation of cost appraisals, cost plans, cost estimates and project cash-flow.
  • Preparation of tender documentation under various contract forms.
  • Tender evaluation and recommendation for award.
  • Post-contract administration and management including contract documentation, valuation of progress payment, variation assessment, cost control reporting and finalization of project final accounts.
  • Undertaking procurement management, feasibility studies, value management, capital allowances, life-cycle costing, cost analysis.
  • Provide support in cost management of projects.
  • Work collaboratively with other Cost Managers to manage related issues on the multi-disciplinary projects and liaise with stakeholders on requirements.
  • Lead and develop (where necessary), team members to deliver service excellence.
  • Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner, meeting, negotiating and corresponding with Clients forming a strong working relationship in true partnership.
  • Effective communication ensuring all information is available for the successful completion of projects
  • Liaise with other Cost Managers to ensure efficient financial control resulting in projects being cost effective.
  • Liaise with other Cost Managers to ensure consistency of service delivery and to identify opportunities for developing quality of the service.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Cost Estimation (Hard Skills)
  • Tender Management (Hard Skills)
  • Contract Administration (Hard Skills)
  • Procurement Management (Hard Skills)
  • Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
  • Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)
  • Professional Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Service Quality Improvement (Soft Skills)

9. Cost Manager, Apex Systems, Cheyenne, WY

Job Summary: 

  • Provide monthly plant operating reports, management reports, trend statements, and analysis for each operating location.
  • Perform special analysis on projects requested by management.
  • Supervise the compilation of plant accountabilities and prepare monthly estimated financial performance report to management.
  • Preparation of product accountability summaries to report to management manufacturing yields, shortages, and historical operational performance.
  • Review monthly financial results analyzing significant variances from prior month figures (or prior year-to-date.
  • Supervise and prepare the pricing, entry, and accuracy of all finished goods.
  • Prepare and review audit schedules in a timely manner for auditing process.
  • Review product accountability as an intricate part of financial analysis to ensure a more accurate reporting of production & inventories as a measurement of plant efficiency.
  • Supervise cost accounting to assure that product cost relates to actual ledger cost.
  • Provide various procurement reports, such as hauling cost analysis and procurement summaries.
  • Determine and maintain equitable department allocations for operating divisions to include on-site visit assuring reasonableness.


Skills on Resume:

  • Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
  • Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Supervisory Management (Soft Skills)
  • Cost Accounting (Hard Skills)
  • Audit Preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Strategic Planning (Soft Skills)
  • Procurement Reporting (Hard Skills)

10. Cost Manager, Cedar Solutions, Springfield, IL

Job Summary: 

  • Prepare high quality financial analysis and management information with consistent, standard monthly information to make informed decision on ad hoc needs.
  • Partner with Operations to collaboratively build, maintain and report on Monthly Operating Review where business financial results intersect with operational throughput, AOP attainment, expected client financial and variance.
  • Provide visibility into expense lines (including Capital Expenditure and Leases) that require review, validation, change in operational assumptions to control the expense and justify.
  • Provide clear financial projections, mainly of the Revenue and Expenses, with sensitivity analysis as well as risk and opportunity consolidation.
  • Lead the customer profitability reporting process and support the action plans.
  • Work closely with the business to update standard costing in locations which already have an Activity Base Coting (ABC) system.
  • Support the implementation of an ABC costing system in all key locations.
  • Special projects on process optimization, M&A, and Market research.
  • Review commercial Vehicles within the region liaising with Fleet/Transport department with changes
  • Responsible for preparation of various periodic government surveys related to production, energy usage, and financial condition.
  • Assist, as needed, in the preparation of the annual budget and forecast updates.


Skills on Resume:

  • Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Management Reporting (Hard Skills)
  • Budgeting and Forecasting (Hard Skills)
  • Cost Accounting (Hard Skills)
  • Collaborative Planning (Soft Skills)
  • Strategic Decision-Making (Soft Skills)
  • Process Optimization (Hard Skills)
  • Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)

11. Contracts & Cost Manager, Delta Manufacturing, Topeka, KS

Job Summary: 

  • Act as the focal point for all Asset Management cost issues, working with Finance, Purchasing, (interface with Technology projects where applicable), Stores, and Suppliers.
  • Understand the requirements to enable the provision of a full QS service for all Operational, Engineering & Maintenance contracts, including Outages/Projects
  • Develop a system and procedure for certifying contractor monthly cost applications across Asset Management.
  • Provide detailed cost reporting (including analysis, advice on adherence to procedures, warning of over-run etc.) on all projects.
  • Working with the Maintenance Manager, Engineering Manager and Plant Manager on a monthly basis to ensure the reporting figures on the Operational Risk Management Budgets are correct and issued to finance in a timely manner.
  • Working with the budget owners to re-forecast the monthly budgets based on committed spend and forecasted works.
  • Provide support on Work and Purchase Order Request issues (ensuring orders are in place, correct type of order in place, quotes management, receipting, assisting Finance in invoice resolution issues etc).
  • Act as a focal point for SAP interrogation including (but not limited to), “drilling down” into costs within budgets in order to clarify: what has been spent, what is left to spend, what needs re-allocating, support what can be done to bring budgets back into line etc.
  • Act as pro-active focal point for all budget provisioning, especially in advance of year-end.
  • Support pre-order/contract negotiations and resolution of final accounts/claims.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Cost Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Quantitative Surveying (Hard Skills)
  • Budget Management (Hard Skills)
  • SAP Proficiency (Hard Skills)
  • Negotiation (Soft Skills)
  • Interdepartmental Coordination (Soft Skills)
  • Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
  • Reporting and Documentation (Hard Skills)

12. Cost Program Manager, Orion Construction, Salem, OR

Job Summary: 

  • Development and adoption of a Cost Reduction Plan to achieve a target product cost for a Blue Origin Engine, from within the Cost Engineering team.
  • Identification of major cost drivers within the rocket engine design, and maintenance of a living model that showing constituent elements of cost.
  • Deploy and maintain a cost Technical Performance Metric (TPM), and drive the engine to improved cost performance through application of this TPM.
  • Document a strategy to develop cost opportunities on a Blue Origin engine, prioritizing the time to market on the largest impact projects first.
  • Develop a database of cost opportunities for a given Blue Origin engine.
  • Create and maintain a Cost Reduction Plan to achieve target cost reductions through strategic implementation of cost opportunities.
  • Develop project plans necessary to implement cost reduction opportunities on a given engine model, characterizing the support levels needed from a cross-functional team.
  • Support the adoption and execution of the Cost Reduction Plan, working with the Engine project management team.
  • Provide detailed consulting on system level product cost, working with the cost engineering team to inform the system cost with detailed component should-cost estimation.
  • Assist in establishing time-phased Cost Reduction Targets for Blue Origin engines.


Skills on Resume:

  • Cost Engineering (Hard Skills)
  • Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Project Management (Hard Skills)
  • Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
  • Documentation (Hard Skills)
  • Consultative Skills (Soft Skills)

13. Product Inventory Cost Manager, Quantum Services, Baton Rouge, LA

Job Summary: 

  • Strive for greatness through managing end-to-end supply chain activities in collaboration with EMS Partners, Regional Teams, Business Planning, Product Operations, and Marketing & Sales teams.
  • Establish an effective materials pipeline and drives product lead time achievement reflecting global demand, service expectations, customer priorities, costs and constraints.
  • Ensures an effective material pipeline while achieving NMS targets (PPV, E&O, Mode-shift) and quarterly inventory commits
  • Manage operations to meet Customer Lead Time expectations and lead problem resolution activities that ensure timely deliveries or address customer fulfillment issues.
  • Create and drive NMS and scrap analytics, projection, tracking, disposition
  • Contribute to achievement of key supply chain metrics (LAS, LTI, OTD, Aged, etc)
  • Be the single point of aggregation for IDC, inventory mgmt. and scrap decisions across the Datacenter Networking (DCN) space.
  • Support the Inventory Commit process. 
  • Assists Product Supply Chain Planning team with updates in OPT on Inventory Turns, WOS, explains drivers/trends to drive action plan.


Skills on Resume:

  • Supply Chain Management (Hard Skills)
  • Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Materials Management (Hard Skills)
  • Project Management (Hard Skills)
  • Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
  • Inventory Management (Hard Skills)
  • Communication (Soft Skills)

14. Cost Manager, Highland Industries, Toledo, OH

Job Summary: 

  • Be the main contact point for all material costing responsibilities, from development through to mass production.
  • Execute seasonal price negotiation and agreement with material suppliers in a timely manner with handover to the sourcing costing team
  • Evaluate suppliers in terms of costing service. 
  • Monitor supplier alignment with company price regulation.
  • Provide accurate, high quality information & analysis to all stakeholders (global Materials team, Costing team, etc. ) which leads to improvements in cost efficiency and pre-costing efforts.
  • Following commodity/raw material price markets and cost comparisons to keep key stakeholders up to date on pricing trends.
  • On the Centric system, keep an accurate and complete material price.
  • Communicate estimated seasonal forecast information with regard to capacity planning and raw material preparation to all T2 vendors based on previous seasonal data.
  • Take part in Inventory control, evaluation, physical inventory
  • Participate in the quality improvement process by providing and explaining relevant studies and information (e.g. cost of quality)
  • Prepare the budget and control of budget using variance analysis and standard cost
  • Preparation of the plan (mid-term plan) and report
  • Prepare costs analysis to support production improvement, prototype costs, etc.
  • Support quotation of sales team based on standard cost calculation.


Skills on Resume:

  • Supplier Negotiation (Hard Skills)
  • Cost Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Market Trend Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Inventory Management (Hard Skills)
  • Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Budget Management (Hard Skills)
  • Problem Solving (Soft Skills)

15. Cost Manager, Orion Solutions, Reno, NV

Job Summary: 

  • Responsible for daily cost maintain and provide quotation for external and internal
  • Responsible for the cost freeze, monthly closing tasks
  • Monthly review of batch variance , material usage variance, figure out the root cause and work out the solution or suggestion for operation from finance side.
  • Responsible for the annual std cost set and work with BU on cost cut down project
  • Inventor control: physical count and monthly cycle count, work with BU and Supply Chain Channel on inv control, includes but not limit to suggestion on account alias
  • Monitor journal entry posting within closing schedule
  • Account reconcile reflected in system and ensure long outstanding items clean up
  • Ensure STAT reflect with correct quantity in ERP System
  • Follow up with global finance team for timely cost capture and pass through
  • Work closely with global controlling team to reflect updated cost structure, issue and resolve queries from stakeholders
  • Ensure that all inventories are recorded correctly in compliance with both internal control and financial accounting standards and verified existence with effective physical counts
  • Ensure that costs of products are corrected according to corporate procedures and in compliance with financial accounting standards and support competitiveness in the market
  • Provide performance report-slaughterhouse and analyze actual performance vs budget


Skills on Resume:

  • Cost Accounting (Hard Skills)
  • Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
  • Analytical Problem-Solving (Soft Skills)
  • Inventory Management (Hard Skills)
  • ERP Systems Proficiency (Hard Skills)
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Compliance Management (Hard Skills)
  • Budget Analysis (Hard Skills)

16. Cost Manager, Summit Construction, Fargo, ND

Job Summary: 

  • Continuously evolve end-to-end costing process, including the development of standards, policies and governance structure to improve efficiencies and deliver best costs.
  • Serve as “costing center of excellence” supporting product team on all aspects of costing
  • Negotiate with Tier 2 vendors and review all costed BOMs
  • Review and provide input on pre-costing prior to tech packs being sent
  • Set seasonal profit and overhead and FX rates by working with senior management at vendors
  • Review and approve mold costs for all molded parts
  • Based upon approved mold costs and working with planning determine per pair tooling amortization
  • Review and monitor tooling amortization schedule to ensure that FOB is reduced at the time tooling is fully amortized.
  • Responsible for IMU reporting
  • Manage costing staffs to complete all reports on time


Skills on Resume:

  • Cost Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Policy Development (Hard Skills)
  • Negotiation (Soft Skills)
  • Financial Forecasting (Hard Skills)
  • Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
  • Leadership (Soft Skills)
  • Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Time Management (Soft Skills)