Role & responsibilities
- Manage standard costing, cost roll-ups, product costing, and cost sheet maintenance.
- Review and validate BOMs, routings, and costing master data.
- Perform cost variance analysis and provide actionable recommendations for cost optimization.
- Lead monthly inventory valuation, reconciliations, inventory provisioning, and inventory analytics.
- Monitor slow-moving, non-moving, and obsolete inventory.
- Execute and govern SAP CO, Product Costing (PC), and Material Ledger (ML) month-end closing activities.
- Ensure reconciliation between FI, CO, MM, and Material Ledger modules.
- Support statutory audits, internal audits, cost audits, and compliance requirements.
- Develop Inventory & cost reports & dashboards, and MIS for leadership reviews.
- Lead automation, standardization, and process improvement initiatives across plants.
- Collaborate with Operations, Manufacturing, and Finance teams to improve processes.
Desired Skills & Expertise
- SAP CO, Material Ledger (ML), Product Costing (PC)
- Standard Costing & Inventory Valuation
- Manufacturing Cost Analysis & Variance Reporting
- SAP FI-MM-CO Integration
- Cost Audit & Financial Controls
- Advanced Excel, Power Query, Power BI
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills
Preferred Industry Experience
Steel, Metals, Cement, Chemicals, Automotive, Engineering, or other Process Manufacturing industries.