Position Responsibilities
Product Costing & Margin Management
- Transition inventory valuation from weighted average to a standard costing, enabling clear tracking of price, usage, and efficiency variances.
- Maintain and govern the BOM accuracy for all SKUs, working with Product Development to ensure ingredients, packaging, conversion, and specifications.
- Own OEM cost structures across raw materials, packaging, conversion costs, logistics, and overhead components.
- Provide monthly cost and variance analysis to distinguish between input price movements, OEM inefficiencies, and internal planning gaps.
- Provide gross margin reporting by SKU, category, and portfolio.
Supply Chain & Cost-to-Serve Optimisation
- Partner with the Supply Chain to monitor and optimise 3PL and distribution costs.
- Collaborate with Product Development to identify cost-saving opportunities in materials, formulation, and packaging.
- Support commercial negotiations with OEM partners and vendors using cost breakdowns and benchmarks.
- Develop cost-to-serve models by SKU and channel to support pricing and portfolio decisions.
Inventory & Cost Control
- Ensure inventory and supply chain numbers are accurate and properly controlled including review stock-take reconciliations, inventory ageing and SLOB, to optimise working capital.
- Define and embed financial control standards into Supply Chain SOPs across procurement, production, inventory movements, and stock adjustments.
- Ensure inventory valuation, provisions, and write-offs are accurate, compliant, and commercially sound across OEMs, warehouses and 3PLs.
Strategic Decision Support
- Evaluate make-vs-buy and OEM-to-in-house transitions through ROI and cost-benefit analysis.
- Provide financial input to support network expansion, SKU rationalisation, and supplier strategy.
Qualification and Experience
- 6–10 years of experience in FMCG finance, with strong exposure to product costing, BOM management, and supply chain economics.
- Experience working with OEM / contract manufacturing models strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience implementing or operating standard costing frameworks.
- Strong business partnering skills across Supply Chain, Product, and Commercial teams.
- Comfortable operating in a high-growth, evolving environment with incomplete data and building structure from the ground up.
- Advanced Excel modeling and proficiency in ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite).
- Ability to simplify complex financial data for operational and commercial stakeholders.
a Necessity, not a Luxury
