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About You and This Role:

Dow is offering an exciting opportunity for a Financial Cost Analyst at our Fort Saskatchewan, AB location!

In this role, you will ensure the accuracy and completeness of accounting activities recorded in the companys books. Your responsibilities will include budgeting, product costing, recording, reporting, analyzing, and communicating functional and business activity results.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensure financial statements accurately reflect the companys operations and financial position.
  • Assist function and business management teams with financial analysis for decision-making.
  • Record, monitor, report, and communicate function and business results, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with accounting standards.
  • Perform product costing of materials, review variances, and communicate results to business and plant management.
  • Conduct product inventory and fixed assets reviews.
  • Provide financial analysis for project studies, options analysis, and productivity/benchmarking measurements, maintaining ongoing working relationships with other sub-processes and functions.
  • Facilitate the budget setting process and monthly/quarterly estimates.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration, or relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E6 or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class, Sergeant ranking or higher.
  • Minimum of 1 year of work experience.
  • Legal authorization to work in Canada. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • An accounting designation (i.e., CPA) is an asset but not required.
  • Experience in the accounting field is desirable.

Additional Notes:

  • This position does not offer relocation assistance.

Benefits What Dow Offers You:

We invest in you.

Dows total rewards programs help you manage all aspects of your life: your pay, health, future, and career. We value your commitment and reward it by investing in your total well-being.

Highlights:

  • Competitive base pay and bonus opportunities globally, with locally relevant incentives.
  • Benefits and programs supporting physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
  • Competitive retirement program with company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, and financial planning resources.
  • Opportunities to become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.
  • Training and mentoring opportunities, community involvement, and team building.
  • Role-based flexibility to maximize productivity and personal balance.
  • Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies, including time off for new parents, caring for sick or injured family members, and volunteering.

Join our team to make a significant impact together.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is a global leader in materials science, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility, and consumer applications. Our global reach, asset integration, and scale, along with focused innovation, leading business positions, and commitment to sustainability, enable us to achieve profitable growth and deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. In 2023, Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive, and sustainable materials science company by visiting www.dow.com.

Dow is dedicated to diversity and inclusion, ensuring equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work, enhancing value and achieving a more fulfilling career. Further information on Dow's equal opportunities can be found on www.dow.com.

Dow is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, committed to providing opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and genetic information. We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please call us at 1-833-My Dow HR (833-693-6947) and select option 8.

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