Finance Costing COE (Centre of Excellence) Transformation Expert
About The Position
The Finance Costing COE Transformation Lead is an individual contributor and recognized authority in enterprise product-costing transformation. As a core member of the Finance-led Costing Center of Excellence, the role shapes enterprise costing strategy, sets functional policy and direction, and co-leads complex design and implementation work to establish a sustainable, globally consistent costing capability. The role connects business strategy, process design, governance, data, controls, analytics, and technology requirements across Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Business Units, and Digital. It challenges legacy practices, turns complex business problems into practical future-state solutions, and drives approved changes from baseline and design through adoption and measurable value realization. At principal level, the role leads major cross-division, multifunction transformation efforts, exercises independent judgment, and mentors subject-matter experts and less-experienced professionals without direct people-management responsibility.
Requirements
- Four-year or graduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated competence.
- Typically 12 or more years of progressively responsible experience in finance, product costing, enterprise transformation, or related disciplines, including leadership of complex global initiatives.
- Proven record of personally designing and implementing a comparable end-to-end costing transformation in a large, complex, global organization.
- Deep product-costing experience in hardware, manufacturing, or technology environments.
- Experience working across Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Business Units, data, controls, enterprise architecture, and technology delivery teams.
- Ability to demonstrate personal accountability for designing and implementing a comparable costing transformation, including explaining starting conditions, methods, critical decisions, measurable outcomes, lessons learned, and how the capability was sustained.
- Recognized mastery of enterprise costing practices, operating models, methodologies, controls, and enabling technologies.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced university degree, professional accounting qualification, or relevant transformation credential.
- Experience across additional business models such as software or services.
- Experience defining Finance requirements for SAP-based costing environments, such as SAP S/4HANA and SAP CO-PC, and integrated enterprise data and reporting landscapes.
Responsibilities
- Design and operationalize the Finance-led Costing CoE, including its charter, operating model, governance, roles, decision rights, and escalation paths.
- Execute the enterprise costing transformation roadmap by translating current-state gaps and strategic priorities into scalable future-state capabilities and measurable outcomes.
- Establish enterprise costing policies and standards, including documentation, change control, exception governance, and alignment across business units and functions.
- Lead design of the enterprise cost model and taxonomy, including cost components, definitions, hierarchies, applicability rules, and product cost rollups.
- Standardize end-to-end costing methods and processes, including rates, allocations, workflows, approvals, controls, reconciliations, and cross-functional handoffs.
- Define Finance requirements for technology, data, and analytics, including costing configuration, automation, integrations, data ownership, lineage, and trusted performance insights.
- Lead functional design, validation, and business readiness, resolving complex issues and dependencies through implementation.
- Drive adoption and sustainable value realization through accountability, training, documentation, knowledge transfer, and continuous improvement.
- Develop strategy and set functional policy and direction for enterprise costing within the approved CoE mandate and governance model.
- Create scalable solutions for complex costing disciplines, balancing a common enterprise core with justified business-model requirements.
- Exercise independent judgment in defining methods, techniques, and decision criteria; frame reserved decisions and escalate them through agreed governance forums.
- Mentor and guide subject-matter experts and less-experienced professionals.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Four to twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave based on tenure
- Eleven paid holidays
- Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave
- Additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity for candidates in the United States
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
