Senior Product Costing & Configuration Analyst (SAP)

The Hershey Company; Hershey (PA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Financial Security

Time Off & Flexibility

Growth & Development

Job summary

The Hershey Company is seeking a Senior Analyst, Product Configuration & Costing to ensure accuracy and transparency of manufacturing cost data. You will analyze SAP Material Ledger actual costing results, identify key trends, and provide actionable insights to Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, and IT partners.

You will also support budgeting data loading in SAP, strengthen data quality controls, and help improve repeatable processes powering financial decisions across Hershey’s manufacturing

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in product costing, supply chain finance, or manufacturing finance
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• Strong analytical, numerical, and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Analyze monthly SAP Material Ledger Actual Costing results across the supply chain network.
• Identify, explain, and document variances, trends, and cost drivers.
• Partner with Accounting & Supply Chain Finance during period-end close, review, reconciliation, and inventory valuation activities.
• Facilitate loading of manufacturing plant budget data into SAP and validate alignment across plants, materials, and cost components.
• Perform data-quality checks across SAP and planning tools; resolve costing, quantity, and valuation issues.
• Serve as a subject-matter resource for Material Ledger and Actual Costing; support enhancements, testing, controls, and documentation.

Skills

Advanced analytical & cost accounting

Attention to detail

Written & verbal communication

Recurring & ad hoc analysis

SAP Material Ledger & Actual Costing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

SAP Material Ledger

SAP Actual Costing

SAP S/4HANA

Excel

Power BI

Alteryx

Job description

The Hershey Company is seeking a Senior Analyst, Product Configuration & Costing to ensure accuracy and transparency of manufacturing cost data. You will analyze SAP Material Ledger actual costing results, identify key trends, and provide actionable insights to Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, and IT partners.

You will also support budgeting data loading in SAP, strengthen data quality controls, and help improve repeatable processes powering financial decisions across Hershey’s manufacturing