Senior Team Manager - Product Costing
9 days ago Bengaluru, India
About us
Cargill provides food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
- Size: 10,000+ employees
- Industry: Natural Resources: Agriculture and Food Processing
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71% would recommend this company to other women
79% say the CEO supports gender diversity
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Job Purpose and Impact
Key Accountabilities
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- The Senior Team Manager - Product Costing job sets goals and objectives for the team to achieve results related to product costing process governance, cost analysis, and stakeholder partnership across the region. This job leads the team in analyzing cost data and developing recommendations that help business leaders understand cost drivers and make informed decisions. This job also oversees continuous improvement in product costing processes and tools, working with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure consistent practices, resolve complex issues, and support system and process changes.
Key Accountabilities
- PROCESS DEVELOPMENT & IMPLEMENTATION: Leads the team in applying product costing policies, standards, and processes consistently across the region. Partners with process owners to clarify responsibilities, address process gaps, and implement improvements to end-to-end costing processes.
- CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Leads the team to identify recurring costing issues and their root causes, recommend improvements, and work with stakeholders to implement and sustain agreed solutions.
- COLLABORATION: Builds strong partnerships with business leaders, operations, supply chain, FinOps, controllership, and other cross-functional teams. Aligns stakeholders on costing priorities, business impacts, and decisions, including the resolution of significant issues arising during month-end close.
- REGULATORY COMPLIANCE: Leads the team in promoting consistent application of accounting policies and internal controls related to product costing. Partners with process owners and FinOps to address gaps identified through audits and reviews.
- COST ANALYSIS & REPORTING: Leads the team in reviewing and interpreting cost and inventory results to identify business drivers, risks, and opportunities. Communicates insights and recommendations to business leaders and follows up with stakeholders on resulting actions.
- SYSTEM & PROCESS CHANGE: Represents regional product costing needs in SAP projects, system changes, and business initiatives. Guides the team in assessing process and business impacts, aligning stakeholders on key decisions, and supporting the adoption of agreed solutions.
- INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: Leads the team to stay abreast of industry regulations and cost accounting standards, ensuring compliance and driving continuous improvement in regional product costing practices.
- TEAM MANAGEMENT: Manages team members to achieve the organization's goals by ensuring productivity, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, recognizing achievements and lessons learned, and developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in an inclusive team culture.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
- Intermediate level of SAP product costing knowledge and substantial experience applying it to costing processes, system and process changes, and business decisions.
Additional Information
- Job category: Finance
- Posted: 9 days ago