Reports to - Product Portfolio Competitiveness Manager

Job Purpose

Support the on-time delivery of existing programs and the development of a multi-year pipeline portfolio to deliver material multi-year savings within the Product Portfolio Competitiveness Team, by ensuring real-time availability of accurate and validated product costing information

Key Accountabilities

- Act as the single point of accountability to ensure availability and accessibility of real-time, validated Product Costing information, which will serve as the foundation for all Competitiveness and PPD activities.
- Develop (ways-of-working and process) methodology and (digital, data and systems) tools to acquire and validate costing information.
- Serve as SPA across costing-related / relevant functional areas to address proactively / reactively any costing related activities and issues.
- Act as a key tag into Finance organization to remain up to date with ongoing changes and improvements.
- Support as costing SME for the various functional areas in the PPD organization
- Deliver end to end accessibility and validation of costing information, ensuring transparency, oversight, issue resolution, to support of pipeline portfolio of savings activities.
- Represent Product Cost Competitiveness in finance and other costing forums; act as key liaison to other relevant functions globally and within the PUs, to ensure tight integration of costing information.
- Provide assurance of consistent application of PCTP methods across all assets/product group.




- Ensure appropriate tools and process are in place to meet current and future needs.

Job Holder Requirements (Minimum education, experience & capabilities)

Education

Relevant degree or similar education background in Accounting, Finance and Business, and/or equivalent costing and accounting experience

Experience

- Relevant work experience general and cost accounting, with relevant knowledge in standard costing methodologies.
- Robust presentation and communication skills.
- Proven experience in capturing business requirements and improving process and systems.
- Ability to work within a virtual, distributed team environment.
- Knowledge and previous experience of Finance business processes and systems.
- Experience in planning and completing project results.
- Knowledge and experience of supply chain operations.
- Well-developed interpersonal and partnering skills.
- Experienced in leveraging relationships and networks within organizations.
- Functional and skills and capability needed to manage a large set of activities with multiple and diverse functional stakeholders.

Skills & Competencies

- Financial systems, tools, and processes - Mastery
- General Tools and Systems (MS tools, PBI, Databases) - Skilful to Mastery
- Numeracy, Analytical Skills - Skilful to Mastery
- Core value chain competencies (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Technology) - Skilful
- People Leadership, Business Partnering, Commercial Acumen- Skilful .

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