Optimize Your Career as a Senior Cost Specialist

2 weeks ago

Gladstone, New South Wales, Australia beBeeCost Full time $155,000 - $185,555
Senior Cost Optimization Specialist

This role is ideal for a highly motivated and results-driven professional with strong leadership skills, who can effectively manage internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

The Senior Cost Optimization Specialist will play a key role in supporting the Factory Manager as a trusted advisor within the Factory Leadership Team. This individual will be responsible for providing visibility around costs related to factory processes through analysis and reporting, ensuring adherence to financial legal requirements, and driving relevant initiatives/projects.

  • Continuously seek cost improvements in the factory by identifying and prioritizing opportunities for improvement.
  • Validate and review projects to ensure completion and realization of savings.
  • Understand key factory cost drivers and SAP reports to inform strategic decision-making.
  • Coordinate the reporting of actual costs: ensuring timeliness and accuracy of input data for Period-end Close (PEC); compliance with external and internal financial policies, Accounting Standards, and Costing Standards.
  • Provide early warnings to stakeholders in case of major cost deviations.
  • Participate in business planning: coordinating, challenging, and preparing input assumptions for the Standard Cost Budget (SCB) and Dynamic Forecast (DF).
  • Develop, control, and ensure robust evaluations of capital investment plans and requests.
  • Be the audit and compliance 'champion' at the factory, serving as the key contact for internal and external audits.
  • Ensure clear control and visibility of assets and liabilities, including the development, implementation, and compliance with internal controls.
  • Cultivate and develop the factory finance personnel as individuals and as a team, including career and succession planning.
  • Promote clear understanding of financial key figures and costing within the factory, organizing training sessions for non-specialists.
  • Ensure full transparency of costs and financial impact to the organization of major or strategic decisions relating to the factory.

To be successful in this role, you will have a proven track record of delivering results in a high-pressure environment, demonstrating adaptability to fast-paced changes, and having a natural passion for data and an eye for detail.

Required qualifications include a Degree in Finance, 5+ years of experience in commercial financial areas, including Costing, Distribution/Supply Chain, and Decision Support, and manufacturing costing experience ideally within a factory or supply chain environment.

A CA/CPA qualification or equivalent is desirable, as well as knowledge of FMCG industry, Excel, SAP, and reporting tools.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential, along with strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.

Full Australian working rights are also required.

Benefits of this role include varied career experiences and personalized development support, diversity and inclusion initiatives, discounted Nestlé products, a competitive remuneration package, and an Employee Assistance Program.

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