Product Costing & Reporting Analyst

What is unique or interesting about this job?

• Exposure to Global Product Costing for all Seeds countries across all regions (Foundation/Non foundation) entities
• Exposure to different country costing requirements.
• Work together with Global product / management reporting team

What is the purpose of the job?

• Deliver Product costing requirements for different entities / countries
• Enhancing Master Data Accuracy
• Act as Subject matter expert in relation to product costing activities.
• Standardizing the process, finding gaps and improving the performance
• Support Continuous improvements in the process, in line with the digital strategy.
• Smooth Delivery of Annual Budgeting activities
• Business Process Reporting (BPR)  

What are the main activities the person in the job is responsible for?  

• Cost Roll up and release in SAP though Workflow (WF) activities ensuring cost correctness.
• Review and release of Cost Validation report to Global Stakeholder
• Analysis and inputs on Cost audit during Budget cost submission
• Transfer price (TP), Sales / Purchase Info Records (SIR / PIR) Maintenance
• Ensuring Master data maintenance / correctness
• Testing and Implementing System enhancements / Changes
• System Alignment for Cost and Purchase Price Table (PPT) with reporting systems
• Year End Rollover and Cost release
• Uses best practices and knowledge to support continuous improvement for processes/services
• Collaborate with Management reporting team to ensure data quality and output are reliable and meeting defined performance KPI’s
• Independently perform the activities with minimum supervision; provide regular status updates, issues & resolutions to the Team Leader / Supervisors.

Experience to be gained in the job: 

• Understanding of Syngenta Products and Product Costing methodology used.
• Experience working with different finance teams in a given geography/ and absorbing business knowledge
• Technical development in finance skills
• Working with digital finance process optimization

Experience required for the job

Essential:

• 6 -7 years of experience in Product costing and Reporting
• Concern for high standards and data accuracy
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Experience with ERP systems preferably SAP
• Should have sound knowledge on Product costing.
• Ability to effectively work in a team 

 Desirable Skills :– the ‘nice to haves’

• Collaborative skills
• Experience to have worked in Digital Environment
• Knowledge / experience in VBA / Macro coding.

Minimum education and critical knowledge required for the job

• Holds Finance Qualification: B.com, CMA / CA / MBA
• Fluent in English