Sr. Costing Analyst GF📣 إعلان

About BRF and the Sr. Costing Analyst Role

BRF, a global food company dedicated to nourishing life, is seeking a Sr. Costing Analyst GF to join its team in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is part of a large global team, operating with a vision that respects local needs. The company is guided by core values including ethics, transparency across its value chain, and continuous innovation, fostering an inclusive and diverse culture.

Role Overview and Contribution

The Sr. Costing Analyst is responsible for providing critical financial insights that influence decision-making and optimize production costs. This role involves detailed analysis of operational performance and financial projections, ensuring the company maintains its commitment to quality products and sustainable practices. The analyst will contribute to achieving key operational performance indicators and supporting strategic business initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform actual reporting and analysis of production costs, explaining key deviations compared with budget and month-over-month trends to influence decision-making.
• Ensure the achievement of factory operational KPIs such as Yield, productivity, efficiency, idleness, and composition.
• Monitor the profitability of categories to ensure maximization of profits by highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Build and maintain complex financial models to project future financial performance and evaluate new businesses and investment opportunities, including ad-hoc scenario analysis.
• Ensure compliance with relevant financial regulations and reporting requirements.
• Perform statutory and managerial financial projections and define and analyze transfer prices.
• Work closely with various departments to ensure delivery of financial analysis and recommendations with active business partnering.
• Comply with BRF Sustainability Policy guidelines, ensuring adherence to the BRF Sustainability Plan through routine activities that promote compliance with indicators and global ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) commitments of the Company.

Cost Planning Activities

Routine cost planning activities are central to this role and include:

• Defining cost allocation criteria for the factories.
• Analyzing changes in Recipes, Raw Materials (RM), Packaging Materials (PM), and production methods to determine cost impact.
• Conducting simulations of new SKUs and proposed production plans.
• Determining costs of business activity to assist management decisions such as rework, material write-off, production stoppage, R&D trials, production losses, quality losses, changes in materials, and Make or Buy analyses.

Required Experience

• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in costing analysis.

Company Commitment

BRF values and promotes an inclusive and diverse culture, actively considering persons with disabilities for all opportunities. The company upholds strong ethical standards in all actions and maintains transparency throughout its value chain, ensuring innovation and sustainable development are integral to its operations.