ODS Analyst

York, England, United Kingdom

12/9/2024

Position Snapshot

Nestlé UK

Costing Specialist

York

Salary £30,000 (depending on experience) + Potential bonus + Excellent Package

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Position Summary

A superb opportunity has arisen for a self-motivated and ambitious individual to join our Finance team based in York. As a Costing Specialist, you will provide a professional accounting and decision support service to a range of manufacturing teams and co-packing operations, meeting strict deadlines and ensuring compliance with Company and legal standards.

A day in the life of a Costing Specialist

You’ll work closely with our Factory teams to ensure accurate input of the factory budgets, be a key contact for factory budget queries and ensure compliance with Nestlé Accounting Standards and all other guidelines issued. You will successfully support the financial month end close process, by providing service posting accruals and prepayments, as well as other support activities including insight to controllers. You’ll deliver a highly effective product costing service, maintaining system costs and calculating costs for product development. You will work alongside a variety of cross-functional teams, including offshore shared service centres, to create robust export transfer prices throughout a quarterly cycle as well as efficient resolution of adhoc requests relating to costing. In addition to this you will build and maintain effective working relationships with managers and key contacts in the factories and develop a good understanding of the manufacturing processes.

In addition to this you will:

• Provide informed and highly effective decision support including weekly and monthly variance reporting.
• Ensure all postings made are compliant and adhere to costing standards. Assist with audits as necessary.
• Support Factory Controllers, Operations Management, Planning & Reporting teams, and above market with analysis and interpretation of factory reporting data.
  
  

What will make you successful?

To be successful, you’ll have a curious approach to everything you do, a tenacity to succeed and a problem-solving mindset. You will also be able to demonstrate fantastic communication and influencing skills across a range of different stakeholder levels whilst being able to challenge the status quo when needed. An ability to understand how you impact the wider business performance is also essential for this role. Experience in F&C & manufacturing would be desirable.

What You Need To Know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is 3rd January 2025.

Please note we have extended the application period for this role till the end of the year and you will expect to hear a response on your application in early January 2025.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers. That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!