Budgeting & Costing Section Head

This is a key finance role that will support stronger financial planning, deeper cost visibility, accurate product costing, pricing decisions, and improved business profitability.

The role will cover the following areas:

* Lead the annual budgeting process and periodic forecasting cycles * Prepare Monthly Actual vs. Budget analysis with clear explanations and corrective actions * Monitor OPEX, CAPEX, cost centers, and departmental spending * Build, review, and improve costing models to support accurate product costing * Analyze raw material costs, production costs, labor costs, overhead allocation, and key cost drivers * Maintain and review BOM, routing, product master data, costing assumptions, and ERP costing setup * Analyze standard cost vs. actual cost variances and identify operational improvement opportunities * Support monthly costing closing, inventory reconciliation, COGS analysis, and cost accounting entries * Review inventory valuation, stock aging, slow-moving items, and costing-related provisions * Support pricing decisions through cost analysis, landed cost analysis, gross margin analysis, and profitability studies * Review the financial impact of promotions, discounts, product mix, and pricing changes * Ensure proper accounting treatment and reconciliation between inventory, costing, COGS, GL, and management reporting * Work closely with production, supply chain, procurement, warehouse, commercial, and finance teams to improve cost accuracy * Prepare costing reports, profitability dashboards, KPIs, and management analysis * Identify cost-saving opportunities and provide practical recommendations to improve efficiency and profitability

We are looking for finance professionals with strong experience in:

• Cost accounting and manufacturing/product costing • Pricing support, gross margin analysis, and profitability analysis • BOM review, routing, standard costing, and actual costing

• Inventory valuation, stock reconciliation, and COGS analysis • Cost variance analysis and cost driver analysis • Budgeting, forecasting, and FP&A • Budgeting systems such as Anaplan, Jedox, or similar tools • ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft AX, or similar systems • Advanced Excel, financial modeling, and Power BI/dashboarding • Strong understanding of the link between costing, pricing, inventory, GL, and financial reporting • Business partnering with production, supply chain, procurement, commercial, and accounting teams • Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills