Associate Manager, Cost Accounting

JOB TITLE: Associate Manager, Operations Cost Accounting



Location: Cairo, Egypt



Overview



About the role:



The role is part of SC Johnson’s global Manufacturing Finance support organization. The role will have strong interfaces with the regional EMEA Manufacturing leadership team based across multiple locations in the EMEA Region, the regional Costing Team based in Italy, as well as the European headquarter based in Switzerland.



At the same time, the position will ensure continuity in financial reporting in strong collaboration with SC Johnson’s EMEA Shared Services Center based in the UK.



Responsibilities

• Deliver Budgets and manage plant financial performance: Analyse monthly financial performance of the manufacturing site, with particular focus on volumes produced, conversion cost incurred and cost savings delivered.
• Prepare monthly business commentaries. Provide timely, relevant, and actionable reporting of key performance measures.
• Provide accurate P&L forecast projections (including absorption, functional expenses, material variances, and efficiency variances) linked to the S&OP process. Highlight risks & opportunities with regards to future plant performance.
• Lead the preparation of formalized Capital Investment proposals in the context of capacity expansion of the plant. Identify and quantify drivers of costs and benefits and perform Return-on-Investment (ROI) Analysis.
• Obtain sign-off by senior global leaders of the company. Ensure project execution is in line with approved investment proposals.
• Finance Lead for the implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) / Lean manufacturing principles.
• Get involved as part of the cross-functional Focused Improvement (FI) team. Perform loss tree analysis and quantify the impact of improved equipment productivity (OEE).
• Drive to continuously improve the Internal Control environment, with a particular focus on compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley control requirements.
  
  

Experience You’ll Bring

• University Degree in Economics, Finance or Business Management with minimum of 7 years post-qualification experience.
• Prior business support experience is essential.
• Excellent accountancy understanding, ideally incl. previous exposure to US GAAP.
• Fluency in English
• Excellent knowledge of MS Excel + Powerpoint required; MS Access, SAP R/3, SAP BPC are an additional benefit.
  
  

Behaviors You’ll Need

• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to be involved in financial details, yet able to take a broader view of business issues.
• Ability to think strategically and drive the right actions for the longer-term benefit of the business.
  
  

About Us



SC Johnson is a fifth-generation family company built on a spirit of adventure and winning the right way. We have been leading with purpose for over 130 years, building top brands such as Raid®, Glade®, Kiwi®, OFF!®, Windex®, Ziploc® and more, in virtually every country. Through these household names, we are making a positive difference to the world around us. But we only succeed with the combined vitality and strength of our 13,000 people who we truly value and support in their pursuit of individual and shared goals.