Cost AnalystActive
The opportunity
Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine.
What you'll do
Maintain the accuracy and integrity of all costing and inventory data in the ERP system.
Work with the planning team to update project cost details.
Reconcile production orders, work‑in‑progress, cycle counts, and annual: inventory counts, including reviewing and recording count variances.
Review standard costs and Moving Average Unit Costs (MAUC) to ensure accurate valuation and reporting.
Build, improve, and refine costing reports that support both management and statutory reporting.
Run monthly sub‑ledger inventory reports and reconcile them to the general ledger.
What they're looking for
- Deliver quarterly obsolete and slow‑moving inventory reserve analysis.
- Analyse cycle count coverage and prepare required SOX controls such as: inventory reconciliations, production order aging, closing errors, and production variances.
- Support month‑end processing, including engineering cost and project cost to support project accounting.
- Partner closely with the NZ Finance team to explain costing methodology and: ensure clarity around financial impacts.