Cargill India | Process Specialist - Product Costing

Key accountabilities

• This role is responsible for driving Material ledger close, problem-solving, fostering collaboration with key stakeholders to influence and implement change, monitoring, and analysing key performance indicators and metrics.
• Manage assessments and distributions, activity rate calculations, process order settlements, actual costing, and the Material Ledger close.
• Contribute and implement continuous process improvement, including simplifying and optimizing process, improving data integrity, and leveraging current technology.
• Lead process improvement projects, Oversee UAT cycles, Project Go-lives, and SAP migrations and other duties as assigned.
• Lead the configuration, maintenance, and optimization of the SAP CO (Costing) module, covering product cost by Order, monitoring performance against established metrics, developing & implementing appropriate action plans when necessary, incorporating stakeholder feedback.
• Translate complex operational data into meaningful financial metrics for senior management.

Minimum qualifications

• Expert level knowledge of SAP controlling module (CO), strong understanding of Material Ledger and Inventory Valuation.
• Advanced data analytical skills for using spreadsheets, business intelligence tools.
• Experienced leveraging financial and business systems to monitor business activities and aid in decision making.
• Experienced working with multiple businesses or international business experience.

Cargill, Incorporated

William Wallace Cargill started the business in 1865 in Conover, Iowa, and it is now headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota. It remains privately held, with the Cargill family as the main owners. The company buys, trades and distributes grain and other agricultural commodities, makes food ingredients such as starch, glucose syrup and vegetable oils, produces animal feed and raises livestock, and offers financial services that help manage risk in commodity markets. In India it has plants in several states, including a corn-milling site at Davangere. Its global business services centre at Bengaluru began in 2015 and handles finance, HR, procurement, logistics and technology work for the group.

Its finance openings in India are in Bengaluru. They cover general and specialist accounting, accounting for agriculture and trading and for the derivatives market, product costing, cash application, travel and expense management, and finance analysis for the Asia-Pacific region. Experience asked for runs from two years for cash application to seven years of record-to-report work for a senior accounting role. Several postings name a qualification: CA or CA Inter, CMA or an equivalent, a fully qualified CMA for the two product-costing process specialist roles, and CA or CPA for the senior accounting role. One management role asks for a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or commerce.

• Industry: Agriculture, food and commodities: grain and oilseed trading, food ingredients, animal nutrition, edible oils and financial risk-management services
• Headquarters: Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States (privately held)
• In India: Cargill India, with manufacturing sites in several states and a global business services centre in Bengaluru started in 2015