Senior Product Costing & Inventory Analyst

• Supporting end-to-end inventory accounting and product-costing processes for purchased and manufactured materials;
• Executing and monitoring month-end actual-costing and Material Ledger processes;
• Analysing differences between standard and actual costs and assessing their impact on inventory, COGS and financial results;
• Reviewing inventory movements, production-order settlements, work in progress and manufacturing variances;
• Ensuring accurate and compliant inventory valuation in line with applicable accounting standards;
• Understanding how purchasing, production, supply-chain and sales transactions are integrated within SAP;
• Executing, monitoring and adjusting allocation cycles for the distribution of costs and revenues across cost centres, products and business segments;
• Supporting profitability reporting and explaining the drivers behind segment performance;
• Maintaining relevant controlling master data and supporting changes to the organisational structure in SAP;
• Identifying process weaknesses and contributing to SAP optimisation, automation and standardisation;
• Preparing process documentation and supporting the training of local finance teams;
• Providing clear financial insights to Finance, Operations and Supply Chain stakeholders.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Economics or a comparable field;
• Approximately 5–10 years of relevant experience in inventory accounting, product costing or manufacturing finance;
• Hands-on experience with the valuation of purchased and internally manufactured materials;
• A good understanding of standard costing, actual costing and month-end costing processes;
• Experience within a manufacturing or production environment;
• Strong SAP knowledge in an integrated manufacturing-finance environment, including SAP FI/CO, Product Costing or Material Ledger;
• The ability to understand the end-to-end flow from purchasing and production through inventory, sales and financial reporting;
• Experience analysing manufacturing variances and their impact on inventory, COGS and profitability;
• Advanced Excel skills and professional fluency in English;
• Strong analytical skills, ownership and a structured approach to problem-solving.

Benefits

• A direct permanent employment contract;
• A 13th-month payment and 8% holiday allowance;
• 25 vacation days and 9 additional ATV days based on full-time employment;
• A pension scheme largely funded by the employer;
• Reimbursement of travel expenses;
• Flexible working hours;
• A hybrid working arrangement, with the option to work from home two to three days per week;
• Internal training and development opportunities, including Power BI training;
• An international and collaborative working environment;
• The opportunity to develop from operational costing activities towards international process-improvement projects.

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