ERP Cost and Inventory Forecast Lead

Intel • Folsom, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Chief Accounting Office (CAO) organization at Intel is globally responsible for all accounting, compliance, and reporting. Within the Corporate Accounting Office, the Cost and Inventory Global Process Owner (GPO) team designs and executes Intel's cost and inventory processes. This role seeks an experienced manager to lead and own enterprise Cost and Inventory forecast governance within the Intel IDM2.0 Acceleration Office (IAO)/Cost and Inventory (CI) GPO. The position involves setting standards, managing risk, and providing executive-level insights across manufacturing, supply chain planning, and finance. The successful candidate will shape future state capabilities and adoption by leading SAP S/4HANA testing strategy and ensuring cross-tower alignment for scalable, well-controlled processes. This role requires vision, execution discipline, adaptability in dynamic environments, and the ability to translate complex business models into standardized, well-controlled solutions that support growth and financial integrity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in business, Finance, Accounting, Business, Operations, or a related field
• 5+ years of progressive experience in finance, accounting, supply chain finance, and/or operations finance roles.
• High tolerance for ambiguity: Comfortable with ambiguous or uncertain situations and have an ability to operate effectively in an uncertain environment by considering a range of creative solutions or options.
• Problem-solving: Identify breakdowns, analyze potential causes, create innovate solutions. IAO is fast moving and dynamic environment.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Deep understanding of Cost and Inventory subject matter along with Operation finance supporting factories or Business Unit to help identify pain points and critical needs.
• Stakeholder management and Business Partnering: Build strong relationships with stakeholders and operational teams to align priorities, synchronize plans, lead, and engage the right experts to design across functions, and influence recommended changes to optimize solutions.
• Influencing: This role is individual contributor but also will work through others in the org as we build this capability. Must be comfortable with ambiguity.
• Communication skills: Skills to effectively communicate across multiple stakeholders including finance, IT, accounting, audit, legal, and other stakeholders. Skills to present concise and impactful messages to senior leaders.

Nice To Haves

• Operations Finance and/or Cost and Inventory experience.
• Experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP) and financial reporting tools.
• Experience leading global, cross functional process or systems transformations.

Responsibilities

• Set enterprise direction and governance for Cost and Inventory forecasting within the IAO / CI GPO framework, with end-to-end accountability for cross functional alignment across manufacturing, supply chain planning, finance and reporting.
• Drive business process definition and cross functional alignment between supply chain planning and finance for standard cost across Plan of Record (POR), bi-weekly updates and what if scenario planning, ensuring consistent, well controlled forecast outcomes that support decision-making.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate forecasting, process, and data risks, ensuring compliance with cost and inventory policies and enabling timely issue escalation and resolution.
• Drive transformation and future state readiness by leading SAP S/4HANA testing strategy (ITC, UAT, and go live) in partnership with manufacturing, Blue Yonder (BY), and Finance, ensuring high-quality end-to-end process outcomes.
• Lead comparative and reconciliation testing between Integrated Cost of Sales Tool (ICOST) and SAP S/4HANA data, validating cost, inventory, and forecast outputs across systems to ensure data consistency, identify gaps or defects, and enable confident cutover and executive decision-making during S/4HANA transformation.

Benefits

• We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry.
• It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation.
• Find out more about the benefits of working at Intel .

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees