Cargill India | Senior Team Manager - Product Costing

Key accountabilities

• The Senior Team Manager - Product Costing job sets goals and objectives for the team to achieve results related to product costing process governance, cost analysis, and stakeholder partnership across the region.
• This job leads the team in analyzing cost data and developing recommendations that help business leaders understand cost drivers and make informed decisions.
• This job also oversees continuous improvement in product costing processes and tools, working with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure consistent practices, resolve complex issues, and support system and process changes.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Leads the team to identify recurring costing issues and their root causes, recommend improvements, and work with stakeholders to implement and sustain agreed solutions.
• REGULATORY COMPLIANCE: Leads the team in promoting consistent application of accounting policies and internal controls related to product costing.
• Partners with process owners to clarify responsibilities, address process gaps, and implement improvements to end-to-end costing processes.
• COLLABORATION: Builds strong partnerships with business leaders, operations, supply chain, FinOps, controllership, and other cross-functional teams.
• Partners with process owners and FinOps to address gaps identified through audits and reviews.
• Communicates insights and recommendations to business leaders and follows up with stakeholders on resulting actions.
• Guides the team in assessing process and business impacts, aligning stakeholders on key decisions, and supporting the adoption of agreed solutions.
• PROCESS DEVELOPMENT & IMPLEMENTATION: Leads the team in applying product costing policies, standards, and processes consistently across the region.

Minimum qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
• Intermediate level of SAP product costing knowledge and substantial experience applying it to costing processes, system and process changes, and business decisions.

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