Cost Controller

Cost Controller- Your future position?

Main responsibilities:

• As a member of the site controlling team and reporting to the Site Controller, perform cost accounting, inventory control and cost control activities for the site’s manufacturing & supply chain functions (Operations); support requirements associated with the month-end financial close.
• Provide support to the Site Controller in other areas of manufacturing & supply chain management controlling
• Acts as a Business partner for Operations and Supply chain management to achieve their goals and making them aware of the financial risks and opportunities
• Ensure compliance with the Group policies and Statutory regulations
• Analyse and report on spending by accounts and cost centres for above mentioned functions ; periodically meet with functional heads and cost centre managers, in order to ensure they have full transparency on spending, discuss variances and quantify cost saving opportunities
• Analysis of expenses by responsibilities, regularly meet with functional heads and cost centre managers, in order to ensure full transparency on spending, discuss variances and quantify cost saving opportunities
• For matters related to cost accounting and inventory control, act as an interface to Givaudan Business Services and external auditors
• Analyse slow-moving and obsolete inventories, discards / write-offs; monitor completeness of the permanent cycle count and analyse inventory count results
• Provide support to the Site Controller in the update of standard costs at least once a year; analyse process orders and purchase price variances to standard on a monthly basis; ensure product costs are properly evaluated, both at standard and actual costs
• Participates to the maintenance of the financial performance KPIs for manufacturing activities (cost/kg, yield, discards, etc.) and to preparation of management information in all areas of manufacturing & supply chain management controlling
• Able to manage time to meet deadlines, whilst managing the time of others to ensure on time reporting
• Identify problem areas in processes and work with the teams to generate solutions
• Assist in ad-hoc problem resolution
  

You?

Your professional profile includes

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• Degree in Accounting/Finance/Economics or similar Controlling qualification
• 2 years of experience and above in small to middle-sized preferably international company.
• Sound knowledge of SAP costing (CO, PM/PS.)
• Participation in ERP (SAP) developments
• Strong Ms knowledge Excel; PowerPoint; Word)
• Good analytical and excellent communication skills with different levels within the organization
• Result oriented; likes to work in a pro-active manner with the factory’s operational management