Costing Analyst

Costing Analyst

We want to be a great employer where every member of our team feels as valued as the next, and they share our passion for creating great- tasting food and building a better business that has a positive impact on the world around us. At the heart of that is a desire to create an environment where our teams feel supported and empowered to take decisions through collaboration and openness.

Purpose of the role:

• Providing NPD and EPD costings for all sites across the business
• Liaise and build relationships with different functions such as NPD, site finance, site operations, and commercial
• Provide valuable insight to costings by using your knowledge of the products and site capabilities
• Ensure commercial receive costings within given timeframe
• Be involved with project work

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensuring stakeholders receive accurate and timely costings
• Accuracy and attention to detail when producing costings
• Bring to life the numbers for other functions by using your knowledge of the brief you are costing and turning financial data into valuable insight
• Complete and maintain customer specific trackers
• Keeping up to date on site knowledge, such as new lines/process/ways of working
• Keeping up to date on our product portfolio, brands, new launches etc.
• Understanding of the wider marketplace and external influences such as inflation
• Challenging and influencing information provided from operations, commercial, NPD etc. such as line speed, number of people required, operational yields, raw materials required, prime cost targets
• Building relationships across functions

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Managing stakeholder expectations
• Prioritise requests easily
• Attention to detail
• Ability to present numbers to non-finance functions
• Always looking to improve ways of working
• Experience in food manufacturing desirable
• Working towards CIMA/ACCA studies