Costing Executive

Role & responsibilities

• Prepare cost sheets and quotations for printing and packaging jobs.
• Calculate material requirements and costs for paper, board , films, inks, adhesives, foils, laminates and other consumables.
• Calculate printing, lamination, die-cutting, foiling, embossing, pasting, folding and other process costs.
• Calculate machine -hour and labour costs based on production process.
• Consider wastage, make-ready quantity, setup cost and production loss while preparing costing.
• Prepare costing based on job size, quantity, number of colours and production process.
• Coordinate with sales, production ,purchase and planning teams to obtain accurate costing inputs.
• Compare estimated costing with actual production costs and identify major cost variations.
• Maintain costing records and update raw materials and process rates regularly.
• Maintain confidentiality of costing ,margins and pricing information.

KPIs

• Accuracy of costing
• Turnaround time for quotations
• Costing vs. actual production variance
• Material/ wastage estimation accuracy
• Gross margin accuracy
• Timely revision of material/ process rates
• Number of costing errors/revisions