Cost Controller

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Cost Controller
- Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.**Cost Controller - Your future position?**

**About the role**
- As a member of the site controlling team, you will be required to perform cost accounting, inventory control, and cost control activities for the site’s manufacturing & supply chain functions within operations. You will also need to support requirements associated with the month-end financial close. In this role, you will be reporting directly to the Site Controller based in Ranjangaon, Pune.**Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs, deliver value and are skilled at fostering strong relationships.**

**In this exciting role, you will**:

- As a member of the site controlling team and reporting to the Site Controller, perform cost accounting, inventory control and cost control activities for the site’s manufacturing & supply chain functions (Operations); support requirements associated with the month-end financial close.
- Provide support to the Site Controller in other areas of manufacturing & supply chain management controlling
- Acts as a Business partner for Operations and Supply chain management to achieve their goals and making them aware of the financial risks and opportunities
- Ensure compliance with the Group policies and Statutory regulations
- Analyse and report on spending by accounts and cost centres for above mentioned functions ; periodically meet with functional heads and cost centre managers, in order to ensure they have full transparency on spending, discuss variances and quantify cost saving opportunities
- Analysis of expenses by responsibilities, regularly meet with functional heads and cost centre managers, in order to ensure full transparency on spending, discuss variances and quantify cost saving opportunities
- For matters related to cost accounting and inventory control, act as an interface to Givaudan Business Services and external auditors
- Analyse slow-moving and obsolete inventories, discards / write-offs; monitor completeness of the permanent cycle count and analyse inventory count results
- Provide support to the Site Controller in the update of standard costs at least once a year; analyse process orders and purchase price variances to standard on a monthly basis; ensure product costs are properly evaluated, both at standard and actual costs
- Participates to the maintenance of the financial performance KPIs for manufacturing activities (cost/kg, yield, discards, etc.) and to preparation of management information in all areas of manufacturing & supply chain management controlling
- Able to manage time to meet deadlines, whilst managing the time of others to ensure on time reporting
- Identify problem areas in processes and work with the teams to generate solutions
- Assist in ad-hoc problem resolution
- Comply with quality management and food safety regulations (HACCP) hygienic standards and internal regulations
- Comply with Health and Safety and Fire protection regulations and internal regulations
- Comply with management regulations and other directives and act accordingly

**Your profile includes**:

- 3 to 5 years experience in similar functions in a multinational company.
- Ideally from industrial background within chemical manufacturing, pharmaceutical & petrochemical industries. However still open to manufacturing-related industries.
- Chartered Accountancy certification is highly preferred
- Strong knowledge in cost accounting (product costing), capitalization, fixed assets, general ledger and monthly closing.
- Sound knowledge of SAP costing (CO, PM/PS.)
- Participation in ERP (SAP) developments is added advantage
- Strong Ms knowledge Excel; PowerPoint; Word)
- Good analytical and excellent communication skills at different levels within the organization
- Result-oriented; likes to work in a pro-active manner with the factory’s operational management
- Communication skills - teamwork
- Developed management and organizational skills
- Priority driven - resistance to stress - multitask
- Loyalty, confidentiality, flexibility and availability
- Able to work in Pune

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