Costing Expert

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Costing Expert to join our team in Katowice, Poland.

As part of Guardian Glass Finance organisation, this role supports the Europe Controller's capability and is based in the office in Katowice, Poland.

The key essence of this role is to facilitate virtuous cycles of mutual benefit within the finance capabilities through a combination of strong communication and analytic skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Knowledge and understanding of cost accounting
• Ongoing cost model ownership for multiple locations
• Changes of key drivers/rates/purchase prices
• Updates to key stakeholders in finance or others e.g. operations on changes
• Sales and profitability data calculation and validation
• Perform variance analysis
• Journal calculation incl. Finished Goods, Raw Materials, Work in Progress, Reserves (obsolescence, LCM)
• Closure of cooperation with accounting team responsible for journals booking
• Optimization of costing system and global process standardization
• Participation in new ERP system implementation project
• Support and initiate process improvements from Costing area
• Update of intercompany prices
• Assist in Annual Operating Plan – resource cost and production parameters updates in the model
• Ensure strong internal controls are established and maintained in the costing activities
• Support the audit requests and ad hoc questions in the company from costing area

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills in English
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to problem solve and use technology to improve the efficiency of the team
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills (advanced Excel is required)
• Resilient in a fast-paced, changing environment

What We Offer

• Flexible working time
• Private medical health care
• Life insurance
• Sport card
• Fruits and snacks at the office
• Team building events
• Internal and external trainings
• Work in Principle Based Management environment, where we promote honesty and respect, we prefer self-reliant employees with initiative over micromanagement, we openly share the knowledge and expect employees to be eager to learn

About Us

Guardian Industries was founded in 1932, and today is part of one of world's largest companies – Koch Industries. We offer growth to those who earn it and generous benefits to our employees. One of Guardian Industries companies is Guardian Glass. As one of the world's largest and most respected glass companies, Guardian Glass is changing in the way people think about glass. We're finding the ways to make glass larger, more energy-efficient, more transparent, more insulating and just smarter. And our work does not just stay in the lab. It becomes the world's tallest buildings, millions of homes and the massive amount of energy saved when the right windows are installed. At Guardian Glass, we are taking one of Earth's simplest materials – sand – and turning it into a key building block of tomorrow.