Associate Director – Cost of Sales & Inventory (COSI) Innovation Lead

Job Description

Position Description:

Associate Director – Cost of Sales & Inventory (COSI) Innovation Lead

Associate Director – Cost of Sales & Inventory (COSI) Innovation Lead provides guidance and innovation to the COSI organization on the end-to-end processes related to the costing and movement of inventory through our Company’s financial supply chain. The COSI end-to-end activities include legal costing, reviewing the calculation of consolidated cost, movement of inventory, reconciliation of inventory balances, and the calculation of intercompany profit. 

The position will develop a broad understanding of the end-to-end financial reporting process, Our Company’s financial supply chains, and the use of various financial tools. This candidate will partner with various divisions across the company, including the Manufacturing, Human Health, and Information Technology divisions.

Primary Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Oversight of the end-to-end costing, inventory and intercompany profit processes, including driving the evaluation of process innovation and changes

• Ownership of business tools to support journal entries in SAP (local adjustment tool) and master data controls and processes (product hierarchy) to support the financial close

• Coordination and testing of system fixes and enhancements, partnering with information technology (IT) teams and others

• Developing innovative solutions to the COSI processes, including simplifying or eliminating processes within COSI

• Lead training efforts across the organization as it relates to the innovation

• Participation in various projects, including new business or divestiture initiatives

• Ad hoc requests

• Responsible for managing a staff of three senior analysts

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• BS/BA degree in business or information technology

Required Experience and Skills:

• A minimum of 5 years demonstrated experience in an analytical, accounting, finance or IT role

• Ability to work well independently, as well as in teams, and manage accounting projects

• Strong leadership and managerial skills

• Highly developed organizational, analytical and communication skills and an ability to collaborate across areas

• Goal oriented, initiative to learn and adaptive to change

Preferred Experience and Skills

• CPA or MBA

• Knowledge of Finance Sharing Area (FSA – SAP Hana database), Financial Tool Kit (FTK), SAP, FCCS (Oracle Cloud Consolidation tool), Excel based tools (Analysis for Office, SmartView), PowerBI (including self-service business development)

• Knowledge of sales, inventory and cost accounting

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