Senior Officer - Costing

Senior Officer - Costing

Main Purpose of Job

Perform Costing activities for several company codes within Nestl in the Market including sanity checks and production of timely, accurate and relevant cost data and analysis.

Key Outputs

Monitor common mailbox for customer requests, and contribute to the issues resolution and questions related answering to the assigned focus area on a daily basis, during PEC & TP activities.

Maintain Costing Master Data (Cost Center, Material Master Data and Assessments).

Perform Costing related and Pre-PEC Health Checks.

Perform activities for actual cost calculation during monthly PEC.

Perform all necessary health checks and reconciliation to ensure quality of data provided with agreed timelines.

Execution of Budget and DF activities, ensuring accurate information.

Perform monthly/quarterly reports.

Monitor the application of service level agreement (SLAs) and indicators of services (KPIs); analyse and share periodic reports.

Participate to the design of process flow at CCC level and identify continuous improvement and internal control points.

Perform Ad Hoc projects in regard to costing function (ex. new plants).

Perform Ad Hoc cost analysis for the needs of businesses/functional controllers.

Participate in the implementation of new costing functionalities, tools and solutions (ex. PCM).

Perform financial simulations, product costing & estimates and CAPEX evaluations as required ensuring full transparency of costs.

Coordinate and provide inputs for budgeting, capacity runs, planning and for the dynamic forecast. This requires continuous involvement and awareness of current situation in order to discern feasibility of inputs. Active participation in Standard Cost Budget, Revision and Replacement Cost calculations as required.

Follow costing guidelines and associated standard operating procedures when generating financial documents and performing daily activities.

Perform routine audit activities within the factory to ensure compliance on critical areas eg) stock taking. Appropriately elevate business risks.

Prepare and publish financial KPI data on a regular basis; perform analysis of KPI data and transfer this knowledge of the key figures to the relevant stakeholders in order to promote understanding.