- Up to 15% bonus
- Private Medical Cover
- Life Cover
- Income Protection
- Critical Illness Cover
- Pension
- Social Events
- Holiday- 25 days per year plus your Birthday and Bank Holidays
- Gym Membership – 50% off at Snap Fitness, Windsor
- Hybrid working (2 days WFH)
Job Purpose
The Cost Controller will be responsible for the management of a Pricing team executing costing activity to provide pricing solutions to support tenders and pricing offers for key accounts. The role is heavily focused on driving the maturity of the department to be more financially focused in order to reflect the forecasted outlook based on newly introduced segments of the business in addition to the core Passenger Solutions segment. The Cost Controller will have strong commercial awareness, an understanding of Standard Cost to Variance modelling, and experience of cost control impacts on P&L results, Net Working Capital and Return on Invested Capital.
Key responsibilities
- Effective management and organization of the Pricing team to ensure they are fully trained, motivated and coordinated to meet pricing submission deadlines. Allocation of key responsibilities across the existing team and future structural planning for the broader regional team proposal to ensure central procedural adherence.
- Implementation & governance of Pricing Rules Matrix to reflect segmentation, margin expectation and approval levels to be used in conjunction with newly introduced P&L costing model.
- Work collaboratively alongside HoCE, FP&A & IT to implement Standard Cost vs Variance Reporting.
- Implementation of Price Tracking model to enable PVM movement reporting.
- Strategic interaction with other departments to ensure processes & tools allow timely collection of data and execution.
- Strategic integration with other departments to ensure costing accuracy is captured within P&L costing model to include actual NWC expectation & trial costs to provide ROIC.
- Work with Procurement & Contracts Management to understand forecasted PPI movements driven by Mintec data in order to capture forecasted impacts on multi year contract submissions.
- Forecast of price increase outlook analysing expected cost movement in order to feed budget & MTP submissions.
- Monitor accuracy of new contracts in line with supplier quote validity and annual 3PL increases.
- Implementation of segmented variable operating models for Interco business.
- Identify & correct control weaknesses, ensuring proper controls are in place throughout the costings process.
- Implementation of process mapping and policy creation across the costings department.
- Challenge cost movements implemented by Suppliers / Procurement.
- Provide ad hoc business analysis to support and drive decision making in all areas of the business (Finance/Operations/Sales/Procurement/NPD) as required.
Knowledge and Skills
- Strong Commercial/Cost Awareness
- Strong knowledge of P&L, NWC & ROIC
- Experience of large Team Management
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Extremely well organised
- Ability to prioritise workload, multitask and work to deadlines.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- High attention to detail and accuracy skills, ability to gather and analyse information.
- An effective relationship builder who has worked in an environment or sector undergoing substantial and rapid change and growth.
- Strong negotiation and closing skills.
- Useful to understand continuous improvement programmes and the application of relevant tools and methods.
- Useful to have WCM / Lean Certification (TPS, Lean, Six Sigma)
- Ability to communicate across all levels of the organisation.
- Ability to coordinate multiple tasks concurrently in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating flexibility in response to changing requirements and quickly adapt to changing priorities, activities, and deadlines.
- Demonstrate high attention to detail.
Skills & Experience
- Financial background essential by experience or qualification
- People Management Experience/Skills
- Strong IT skills: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook
- Experience using Business Central or similar ERP systems
- Commercial experience of Sales, Cost and Gross to Operating Margins
- Understanding of PowerBI
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong commercial acumen
- Solutions driven
- Motivated self-starter
Personal Qualities
Self-starter with ability to use own initiative.
The experience and maturity to work within a fast-paced team and ability to prioritise effectively
How to apply
If you’re interested in applying for this role, please send a copy of your most recent CV to [email protected]
Please no agencies.
