Job Description :
Job Title: Costing Lead Analyst
Contract: Permanent
Location: Budapest
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
As part of Global Supply Chain and Procurement department (GSC&P) provides oversight on financial activities and controls including general accounting, management and external reporting and financial planning and analysis. The tower is responsible for the interpretation of financial and statutory data, the coordination and management of financial and statutory reporting, the management of the P&L and balance sheet delivering solutions that will increase insight and transparency. Tower responsibilities also include ensuring there is a true and fair representation of business performance at the cut-off point for the period and transparency on financials for Business Performance Management.
Purpose of Role
The purpose of the role is to provide Costing support for the annual SKU reset, monthly recoveries reporting and ongoing Innovation and Brand Change projects (innovation, renovation, etc.), from indicative costings through to final product costing, applying a high attention to detail to ensure the integrity of costing data and the accuracy of the product cost. The role requires a person who is Subject Matter Expert on Costing processes. Willingness and capability of coordinating BAU processes within the Costing Team is a must.
Top Accountabilities
Engage business partners in the annual SKU reset and manage it through them.
Calculate of the overhead activity rates (labor, plant, central overheads or PMUDOS) in the annual SKU reset.
Manage annual/monthly recoveries & production accounting reporting process (provision of AOP, monthly analysis of variances, forecasting)
Run monthly ML closing cycle & understand key dependencies of successful ML closing/actual costing and supports other team members in issue resolution
Provision of indicative costings – supporting project managers with indicative costings for innovation / renovation etc projects, ensuring accurate calculation of product costs, overheads, depreciation etc for gatekeeper decision making purposes.
New SKU Costing – Following gate sign-off, costing the product in SAP (c1,500 new SKUs per annum), liaising with the Technical Centre and BTP teams to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the SKU cost in SAP and finance Costing tracker.
Standardization / Simplification – in collaboration with other Costing colleagues, simplifying and standardizing costing processes into a single way of Costing.
Taking a leading role among Costing Analysts by supporting Costing Manager with supervising daily operations, coaching peers and playing key role during significant projects across the team.
University or College degree in Economics or Finance and Accounting
Costing and/or Financial Controlling experience is strongly preferred
4-5 years experience in relevant area
Strong accounting experience
Good accounting knowledge
Experience in a global FMCG or similar dynamic operating environment
Experience in a Financial Planning & Analysis / Shared services environment is considered as an advantage
Have the ability to think broadly when a system related challenge occurs and extract data in a way that supports decision making
Fluent English knowledge
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Rewards & Benefits Statement:
We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:
Diversity statement:
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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Worker Type :
RegularPrimary Location:
BudapestAdditional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-11-18