What is unique or interesting about this job?
- Exposure to Global Product Costing for all Crop Protection countries in Europe and Asia Pacific (gSAP) 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
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 required for the job
Essential:
- 5-6 years of experience in Product costing and Reporting
- Concern for high standards and data accuracy
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Experience with ERP systems – SAP must
- 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.
Experience to be gained in the job:
- Understanding of Syngenta CP 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