Costing, Product Economics & Margin Visibility:
Drive robust product costing across in-house, CMO, and third-party in-licensed products to improve cost visibility, margin understanding, and decision support.
Analyze material, conversion, and sourcing cost movements to identify key drivers affecting product margins, standard costs, and profitability.
Provide actionable insights on Purchase Price Variance, manufacturing cost movements, and sourcing changes to support cost control and business decision-making.
Partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operations to evaluate cost-saving opportunities, sourcing decisions, and cost optimization initiatives
Supply Chain Finance & Inventory Governance:
Strengthen inventory visibility across raw materials, packing materials, WIP, and finished goods by delivering accurate and decision-useful reporting.
Drive analysis of inventory aging, slow-moving and excess inventory, provisions, and NRV exposures to support timely management action and working capital improvement.
Partner with supply chain teams to improve inventory discipline, stocking assumptions, and replenishment decisions across in-house, CMO, and in-licensed product portfolios.
Ensure inventory-related financial reporting and reconciliations support strong control, transparency, and management visibility.
Planning, Forecasting & Cost Assumption Management:
Drive material cost and supply chain finance inputs into budget, forecast, and long-range planning cycles with robust assumptions and supporting analysis.
Ensure costing assumptions are current, aligned with sourcing and operational realities, and reflected accurately in planning models and management submissions.
Support scenario analysis on material cost changes, sourcing shifts, inventory movements, and margin impact to improve planning quality and business preparedness.
Management Reporting, Dashboards & Business Insights:
Deliver meaningful reporting on COGS, inventory, PPV, material cost trends, and supply chain finance performance with clear commentary on risks and opportunities.
Enhance dashboards and analytics to improve visibility of cost drivers, inventory trends, provision exposure, and financial impact across product portfolios.
Translate data into actionable insights for finance and business stakeholders, enabling faster intervention on cost leakages, margin erosion, and inventory risks.
Inventory Valuation & Process Improvement:
Support the integrity of SAP costing and inventory data by ensuring key finance inputs, master data dependencies, and reporting outputs are reliable and aligned with business requirements.
Review and update BOMs and activity / overhead absorption rates in coordination with Operations, Supply Chain, and Plant Finance to ensure standard costs and inventory valuation remain accurate.
Perform periodic review of over- and under-absorption of manufacturing and overhead costs, identify underlying drivers, and support timely corrective actions to ensure accurate inventory valuation.
Contribute to standard cost updates, cost roll processes, settlements and inventory accounting activities to maintain accurate product costing and period reporting.
Drive process improvements and automation across costing, inventory reporting and supply chain finance analytics to reduce manual effort and improve control and scalability.
Controls, Compliance & Audit Support:
Ensure costing and inventory processes are supported by strong documentation, reconciliations and review discipline to meet audit and control expectations.
Support statutory, internal and cost audit requirements through timely, accurate and well-structured analysis and documentation.
Strengthen governance across costing and inventory reporting by identifying control gaps, improving process discipline and supporting sustainable compliance.
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