Senior Cost Specialist

Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Eligibility: Open to local candidates only

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end cost accounting activities while ensuring compliance with accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.
• Execute monthly financial processes within ERP systems, including reporting, reconciliations, and follow-up actions.
• Monitor raw material inventory movements and production cost transactions across multiple sites.
• Perform inventory reconciliations and analyze material consumption variances.
• Prepare and review month-end journal entries, including accruals, amortizations, and allocations.
• Conduct balance sheet reconciliations and investigate significant variances.
• Support internal and external audits by preparing schedules, documentation, and financial analyses.
• Manage intercompany transactions and oversee corporate cost allocation processes.
• Maintain material pricing records and prepare periodic cost and profitability analysis reports.
• Partner with Operations and G&A teams to ensure accurate, timely, and reliable financial information.
• Analyze monthly cost and expense variances, providing actionable insights and recommendations.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance cost accounting processes, controls, and reporting efficiency.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in cost accounting, preferably within FMCG, manufacturing, or industrial sectors.
• Hands-on experience with ERP systems; experience with Logo ERP is an advantage.
• Familiarity with SAP is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, cost structures, and costing methodologies.
• Experience in financial reporting, account reconciliations, and audit support.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other MS Office applications.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Detail-oriented, proactive, and results-driven mindset.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is required. Knowledge of Kurdish and/or Turkish will be considered an advantage.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to advance your career in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will work alongside experienced professionals, contribute to operational and financial excellence, and play a key role in driving continuous improvement across the organization.

If you are passionate about cost accounting and delivering business value through financial insight, we encourage you to apply.