Analist Financiar (Product Costing team)

GBS (Global Business Services) provides financial, human resources, audit and IT services to the British American Tobacco entities. Our category expertise, large capabilities and international operation makes us a unique business partner who excels in financial leadership and, therefore, offers great shareholder value for BAT.

If you have financial or HR areas background; you thrive when faced with a challenge and you are highly motivated; you want to develop your career in an organisation that will not only recognise the unique attributes you bring but will support your development and reward your contribution,
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Comfortable communicating at all levels including senior management, you’ll need a good knowledge of accounting principles and conventions and will either be newly qualified or in the final stages of an accounting qualification. With an experience of SAP and MS Office, including intermediate or advanced Excel skills, you’ll also be a strong analyst, with a keen eye for detail and the confidence to challenge the way we do things.
Knowledge and experience of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are essential.
Desirable requirements
Ideally, you’ll be in the mid to final stages of professional accountancy exams. If you have experience of finance integrated packages such as SAP or Hyperion, preferably in an FMCG environment, all the better.

As a major global business with a strong record of continuous growth, we’ve built our success on excellent products, great people, and outstanding financial control. You’ll play a key role in improving our financial control through more effective and efficient financial planning and reporting. Working closely with our WER operations units (WER BAT factories) and finance teams from BASSE, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to develop your professional and personal skills, with our support all the way.

You will:
Develop QPR forecasts and budget using planning tools (ECC, BPC, HFM) to meet group deadlines: PL, BS, CF
Manage the financial control of ledgers for compliance, reconciliation, and reporting.
Manage the product cost process across WER companies, ensuring accurate reconciliation, reporting, and financial control.
Document and embed a clear financial policy to support standard cost calculation in ECC(SAP)
Review, build and implement improvements in Product cost process.
Contribute to collection of information of End Market driven activities by developing a strong relationship with the End Markets;
Assist with the improvements on current systems by gathering new requirements and initiating projects to make potential functional changes and additions;
Ensures high-quality planning of Operations related costs and capital expenditures during budget, forecasting and month-end closing processes;
Product costing activities (Budget product cost activities performed in SAP, costing of raw materials and finished goods materials)