Costing lead

60200 - Costing Lead - US, IM and CBMSO

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.
• 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 and commercial units and support the business analysis.
• Support business decisions by providing ad hoc costing analytics and assessments for potential costing scenarios.
• Partnering with business leaders to support portfolio related decision making such as savings calculation for future improvements.
• Support the sites in their AOP and costing cycles submission, validating the submission accuracy and alignment with costing methodology and guidelines. Costing cycles support, validation and consolidation for CBMSO
• Accountability on knowledge sharing platform, own training sessions and guidelines publishing.
• BP to SC (Volumes and routings) and MST (BoM) – CR, Volume alignment and impact on costing
• BP to GPIO and GNPS to support strategic costing – GPC, pipeline costing, and various Portfolio initiatives
• Quarterly costing – support the design, testing and go live activities

Your experience and qualifications:

• Master’s/Bachelor’s degree in Economics/Management or equivalent.
• At least 6 years proven working experience in a global manufacturing organization in Finance/SC/Procurement positions.
• 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
• Previous costing experience - advantage
• Experience with SAP MM/PC - advantage
• Fluent in English