Cost Coordination

Description

**Location:** Veracruz **Objective:** Perform standard and actual factory cost calculations as well as variance analysis (spending, usage, price, and substitution) to identify gaps and propose improvements; provide visibility and transparency to business units so they have clear and timely information for decision-making; calculate costs for new products, analyze and propose optimal recipes considering all economic variables to support the successful and profitable launch of projects; support the Factory Controller in implementing internal control. **What will make you successful:** Experience in Cost Accounting, Finance, and knowledge of manufacturing industry processes Graduates from Finance, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or related fields. Advanced Excel Intermediate English. **Key Responsibilities:** * Prepare the Factory’s ACE (Annual Cost Estimate), calculate transfer prices, and review the ACE by coordinating, preparing, and participating in activities such as proposing technical standards, proposing expenses, reviewing recipes, reviewing prices, and analyzing exploded bill-of-materials data to obtain the standard cost per product. * Determine the actual production cost by coordinating and supervising activities impacting the calculation—including fixed assets, raw material and packaging material prices, payroll, proper expense allocation, allocation bases, and SAP processes—to obtain the unit cost of each of our products and communicate risks and opportunities to business units, DS, and T\&M. * Support factory areas in applying company-established norms and policies regarding internal control, best practices, NAS, standard costing, and health checks—contributing to obtaining accurate and timely information while safeguarding and optimizing company resources. * Evaluate major variances and provide management and the Factory Committee with relevant information on expenses, price, usage, and substitution variances to focus actions and enable timely decisions toward achieving factory and business objectives. * Actively participate in improvement teams, validate projects, develop VOCA’s (Value Opportunity Cost Analysis), contribute to the NCE strategy, and engage in factory committees to drive zero-waste initiatives aligned with factory and business priorities. * Contribute to new business models by generating simulations and improvement scenarios—including reformulations and substitutions—as well as evaluating investment projects in collaboration with factory areas, the application group, the procurement unit, and other involved departments. * Identify and recognize workplace hazards and risks, ensuring personal safety and that of others around, and apply established safety norms and protocols to prevent accidents. * Comply with the World Health Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, Nestlé Instructions, and Nestlé Policy on the Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, along with any applicable amendments and relevant government regulations in all activities inherent to this position.