Position Snapshot
Business area: Finance
job Title: Cost of Goods Sold & Import Analyst
Location: York
Salary £25,000 - £28000 (depending on experience)+ potential bonus + Pension + Healthcare + 25 days holiday with 12 flex days + other fantastic benefits
Although this is a full-time permanent opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs, don’t let this stop you from applying.
Position Summary
We have an exciting opportunity in our Finance team for a COGS & Import analyst. You will support the COGS & Import Lead in ensuring accurate insight on COGS reporting and forecasting for the NHSc UK & Ireland Category. You will deliver timely and accurate review of import transfer prices across the NHSc business category. You will provide informed and highly effective decision support including weekly and monthly variance reporting & costing support to our factories.
A Day in the life of…
You will be required to support the COGS lead on reporting and queries from the Category building strong relationships with our customers. Support the COGS Lead to ensure there is a smooth process with importing products into factory production acting as a link between producing factories and 3rd Parties. Prepare management accounts and performance reporting for Factory operations. Ensuring timeliness, data integrity and compliance with Nestlé Accounting Standards. Working alongside the factories is pivotal, ensuring robust analysis and provide understanding behind the performance to the business.
- To ensure Import Transfer Prices are correctly reviewed across all businesses and validated in line with procedures.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with managers and key contacts in the business & factories and develop a good understanding of the manufacturing & COGS processes.
- Own the resolution of technical issues raised by Operations & the Categories.
- Support Category, Factory Controllers, Operations Management, BP&A and Divisional Analysts with the analysis and interpretation of reporting data.
- Deliver a highly responsive & effective product costing service, maintaining system costs and calculating costs for product development.
What will make you successful?
As the successful candidate you’ll be eager to learn, have an inquisitive mindset and a keen focus on continuous improvement. The successful candidate will ideally be studying for an accounting qualification.
Key skills required include:
- Good Excel skills and preferably SAP experience
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Highly proactive with ability to manage and prioritise a varied workload
- Strong results focus to meet deadlines along with excellent attention to detail
- Ability to step up into a leading role to ensure the team meets tight deadlines.
What you need to know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.
Job advert posting date 16th May 2023
Job advert closing date 30th May 2023
We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
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