Cost Planning & Analysis Manager

About the role

Hayat is looking for a Cost Planning & Analysis Manager to join its Finance team in Istanbul, HQ. The role contributes to transformative projects within the Consumer Group and covers month-end cost closing, cost forecasting, SKU profitability and business partnering with R&D, marketing, procurement and regional functions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the month-end cost closure process with subsidiaries, ensuring compliance with local GAAP requirements and company accounting policies
• Calculate and analyse actual mark-ups for intercompany trade transactions
• Define and monitor key controls in production processes for accurate month-end closure and SKU profitability by country
• Manage the end-to-end budget cost process for subsidiaries and run forecast cost cycles, producing monthly production cost forecasts for sourcing units (countries)
• Analyse and explain deviations between actual cost of goods manufactured and sold and forecasts
• Prepare ad hoc reports for senior management on country-specific and global cost deep dives or scenario templates
• Study category, product and production-line feasibility studies for new market entries or category expansions
• Partner with R&D, Marketing, Procurement and regional functions on SKU profitability and R&D feasibility scenarios
• Design and execute standardisation of the end-to-end costing process globally alongside the SAP transformation project
• Hold monthly meetings with country costing teams on monthly profitabilities and deviations
• Prepare annual training and manuals to build costing capability in countries

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Management, Economics or Engineering from a reputable university
• Minimum 12 years of experience in production companies (FMCG preferred) in cost controlling, month-end actual costing, SC business partnering, category finance BP or similar roles
• Fluent written and spoken English
• High analytical skills, with experience turning large data sets into business insights
• Ability to work under tight deadlines with complex data, and good communication and influencing skills in a multicultural global organisation

Required skills

• Effective use of MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint)
• Knowledge of BPC, Power BI and SAP is an asset