Costing Lead

59231 - Costing Lead

The opportunity:

The Costing Lead will act as the finance business expert to guide, lead and collaborate with multiple business units to support the costing activities.

The successful candidate will have to master all data platforms, have deep understanding in costing elements and provide strategic insights across various processes.

How you’ll spend your day:

• Analyzing company's COGS on a product level, providing business insights on cost drivers, trends and future business evolution. Responsible for YOY analysis and cost changes.
• Support the sites in their AOP and costing cycles submissions, validating the submission accuracy and alignment with costing methodology and guidelines.
• Costing business partner to Procurement and EMSO
• Accountability on knowledge sharing platform, own training sessions, timelines and guidelines publishing.
• Develop analytical processes, routines and tools to support costing analysis and validation.
• Support the improvement initiatives for sub-costing processes or enhancements for existing costing tools.
• Build partnerships and maintain strong collaboration with various stakeholders to Improve stakeholders understanding of standard costing impact on business performance.
• Manage communications with various TGO, commercial units and support potential costing scenarios.
• Partnering with business leaders to support portfolio related decision making such as savings calculation for future improvements.

Your experience and qualifications:

• Master’s/Bachelor’s degree in Economics/Management or equivalent.
• At least 8 years proven working experience in a global manufacturing organization in Finance/SC/Procurement positions.
• Previous costing experience - must
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect and analyze significant amounts of information with attention to details and accuracy
• Ability to work independently and under pressure
• Excellent communication and presentational skills
• System oriented with expert skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience with SAP MM/PC – advantage
• Fluent in English