Overview
To manage and execute end-to-end product costing processes, ensuring accurate financial setup and standard cost maintenance across multiple plants. The role is responsible for maintaining costing data within SAP, supporting monthly and year-end controls, and collaborating with key stakeholders including Supply Chain, Finance, and Commercialisation teams to deliver timely and reliable cost information.
Responsibilities
- End-to-end product costing and financial new product set-ups.
- Standard cost management within SAP on a day to day basis and at year end for multiple plants, responsibility for key monthly GCS Controls around Standard Costing.
- Key stakeholders include Supply Chain and Finance to ensure delivery of accurate costings, right first time and on time ensuring that we are delivering world class data.
- Manage phased costing, working closely with Supply Chain to solve any issues and drive process improvements.
- Collaboration with the Commercialisation teams to ensure accurate and timely setups.
- Lead continuous improvement agenda within the team, work to develop robust solutions and implement same.
- Provide financial analysis for product costings, working in close collaboration with stakeholders to deliver preliminary cost analysis
- Tracking final costs of new innovations against preliminary financial analysis to understand variations & provide insightful cause of change analysis to leadership stakeholders
Qualifications
- Experience in analysing and distilling large amounts of data into meaningful and presentable content to support decision making
- Strong financial skills, excellent communications and problem solving
- 3+ years of experience in finance, planning and/or accounting
- MBA / CA / CMA preferred
- Experience in financial systems & programs (BOBJ, Essbase, PowerBI, Excel, SAP)
- Able to work independently and takes initiative
- Detail-oriented; organized in approach in document maintenance
- Consistently shows urgency, courtesy and patience
- Exceptional communication skills. Proficiency in English language
- Stakeholder management across different geographies
