BUSINESS ANALYST – PRODUCT COSTING

• Manage a complex financial analysis for business cases which allow Supply Chain team to make timely and sound decision.
• Assist and challenge Supply Chain team to verify the potential risks and opportunities impacting financial results.
• Support to evaluate the ad-hoc projects / initiatives on the request of Production, Planning, Purchasing and R&D
• Support Supply Chain team to maintain a master data for Product costing by SKUs to timely provide high level assumptions
• Establish and maintain a Costing master data spreadsheet which allows to quickly run scenario for RMC, FX and formulation change
• Provide Product Cost structure (historical and forecast data) for all functions to complete the commercial case for:
- New product launch/ re-launch
- Formula change
- RMC change
- Selling Price change
- MTO
- Special offer for Project
• Compile, analyse and provide a consolidated annual budget (ABR) and rolling forecast (RF) relating to RMC, Product costing by lines
• Co-ordinate with Planning to provide the Stock data for ABR and RF
• Involve Supply Chain team in the forecasting and risk process to ensure the monthly forecast is properly prepared for Regional office.
• Actively participate in monthly pre-S&OP meeting and monthly Supply Chain meeting
• Monthly update and analyse Product Costing against Budget / Target or Prior year with insight information and variance analysis with reasons presented with high accuracy and timely for Supply Chain team and Management Accounting Manager:
- COGS: Variance analysis between standard cost and actual cost
- Raw material price tracking
- Freight, forwarding fee and import tax tracking
• Co-ordinate with Supply Chain team to compile the month-end business results commentary for Region office.
• Establish a comprehensive allocation method of shared cost of manufacturing and other supply chain CBCM to provide the highest accurate profitability analysis by Product lines, Brands and Channel.
• Support Management Accounting Manager to consolidate inventory in OWC report from Hyperion
• Co-ordinate with Accounting team to identify the opportunities to improve business process in order to focus on business partnering
• Prepare in-depth evaluation of plans and identify the new methods or mechanism of analysis and presentation to cover the wider dimension and complicated information
• Continue to improve the mechanism to reflect the RMC index estimation to product costing forecast with high accuracy
• Actively join the regional SAP project as a local CO and BI key user
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• Bachelor degree
• Proficiency in Finance, preferably in CIMA, CPA or ACCA
• Proficiency in English
• Proficient in working with Excel/ PowerPoint
• Good knowledge in SAP
• At least 2-3 year relevant experience as a Business Analyst, Cost Accountant, Supply Chain accountant or Finance Planning / Budget in a fully operational multinational companies
• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Solid analytical skills
• Leadership skills and experience in cross functional management
• Strong business mindset
• Willing to take responsibility and engage in a high performance culture
• Integrity and adaptability to change

*** Only a sort list candidates to be contacted.
*** We need candidates for location: Ho Chi Minh Office
*** Just receive applications through Vietnamworks.com, please don’t contact via phone.

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AkzoNobel is proud to be one of the world’s leading industrial companies. Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we make and supply a huge range of paints, coatings and specialty chemicals.
In fact, we are the largest global paints and coatings company. As a major producer of specialty chemicals we supply industries worldwide with quality ingredients for life’s essentials. We think about the future, but act in the present. We’re passionate about introducing new ideas and developing sustainable answers for our customers.
That’s why our 60,000 employees—who are based in more than 80 countries—are committed to excellence and delivering “Tomorrow’s Answers Today”.
In Vietnam, we manufacture, sell and distribute various famous paint brands namely Dulux 5 in 1, Dulux Weathershield, Dulux Super Cover, Dulux Easy Clean, Maxilite, Farco, Santex, Levis…