Overheads Cost Controller

Job ID:37081
Location:Mumbai : India Management Office, Birmingham : 1 Trinity Park : Bi
Position Category:Finance
Position Type:Employee Regular

**Role purpose**:
Overhead Cost Controlling aim is to collect and analyse costs that cannot be directly assigned to the delivery of services to our customers. The main purpose of Overhead Cost Controlling is to take costs that cannot be assigned directly to delivery of customer services and allocate them as far as is possible according to their cause. Account assignment objects for such costs include cost centres and cost collecting projects (COC).

The role has overall day-to-day operational ownership of LRQA overheads accounting and responsibility to identify, assign, recharge, allocate, report, and reconcile overhead costs in line with LRQA’s key objectives. The role holder supports the GPO by monitoring and reconciling overhead accounts in order to ensure costs are correctly recorded on appropriate accounts, cost centres and cost collecting projects. Additionally, role holder will work with Finance Business Partners to help them analyse and understand these costs. The role is also responsible for partnering with data and IT teams on process improvement and automation.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Control all operating P&L accounts (excl sales, cos, payroll and subcontractors), and Balance Sheet accounts (e.g. fixed assets, prepayments, provisions and accruals).
- Ensure the cost shared among multiple cost centres (e.g. company car, insurance etc.) are properly accounted for
- Together with GPO P2P work with cost centre managers and buyers on ensuring that Purchase Orders are correctly created, managed, goods receipted and completed.
- Ensure that shared cost of the business (e.g. costs of Shared Services, SDS Hubs etc.) are properly recharged back to cost centres based on LRQA’s Finance Strategies, Policies and Procedures
- Take the lead on responding to audit queries in relation to overhead related P&L and Balance Sheet movements. Ensuring the responses are clear and concise and reflect the risk to the reported results
- Review and systemize the existing process documentation and identify the gaps ensuring that both process and documentation is fit for purpose, standardised to deliver value, continually reviewed, is clear and concise, adopted by the LRQA Business.
- Support the GPO P2P to build sustainable partnership relationships and provide guidance and advice to Buyers, Purchasing and Cost Centre managers to help them navigate improvements to service delivery, role standardization and efficiency.
- Support and provide financial expertise input to CertSmart project team.
- Any other support, including ad-hoc projects that the Global Controller/GPO requires.

**Technical / Professional Qualifications / Requirements**:

- Ability to lead and motivate others to meet tight deadlines and achieve a high standard.
- Excellent MS Office skills and preferably working knowledge of SAP ByD
- Tenacious in understanding the root cause of any issues or degradation in service delivery. Ability to pick up systems quickly and able to drive improvements
- Analytical / diagnostic skills with ability to analyse large quantities of data, identify issues, propose and present actions.
- Strong planning, analysing, monitoring, reporting and risk identification and mitigation skills
- Relevant additional qualifications in Finance/Business/Process domain. Fluent in English

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