Calculates and investigates the cost of wages, materials, overheads and other operating expenses.

Calculates, analyses and investigates the costs of proposed expenditure, wages and standard costs; prepares bank reconciliations; allocates expenditure to specified budget accounts; summarises expenditure and receipts; prepares records of standard costs and values for items such as raw materials and packaging supplies; records cost variations and contract price movements; compiles cost data for preparation of operating budgets, and profit and loss calculations; investigates the costs of proposed expenditures, quotations and estimates; prepares reports of total costs, inventory adjustments and selling prices and profits.

• Indoor office environment which may range from a large corporate-type head offices down to a smaller sole-charge office.
• Employees work at office desks, usually with a computer workstation.
• Usually work occurs in adequately heated and ventilated spaces.

• A sedentary
• Employees spend most of the day sitting at a workstation carrying out a variety of both manual and computerised data entry and processing tasks.
• Occasionally standing and walking about the office is required.
• Lifting, stretching, twisting, climbing is not a significant component of the job.
• Repetitive arm hand and finger movements are constant in regards to data-entry and data processing tasks.
• Bending, squatting or crouching is not a significant component of the job.
• Driving is not a significant feature of the job.
• Use of minor office hand-held objects such as pens, calculators and staplers, as well as telephones will also be occasional to frequent. Costing clerks will also need to operate printers, copiers and a range of other minor office equipment and refill paper trays and ink supplies.
• Mental skills necessary include a high level of concentration, mathematical accuracy, organisation and communication.

A New Zealand Register Level 2 or 3 qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 4) or at least one year of relevant experience. In some instances particular experience and/or on-the-job training may be required. For entry-level positions on-the-job training is sufficient.

• There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.