Senior Specialist Global Value Chain
The Position
Are you interested in combining product costing expertise with operational problem solving in a global environment? As part of the GVC Run Team, you will help ensure reliable cost-of-goods data and stable end-to-end value-chain processing across planning and reporting cycles. You will analyze complex cases, coordinate solutions across functions and locations, and help develop the processes, tools and knowledge base of a newly established global run organization.
Tasks & Responsabilities
As a Senior Specialist Global Value Chain (GVC) and Product Costing, you will be responsible for:
• Running GVC operations:
Execute and monitor daily GVC activities that support product costing, COGS readiness, and stable processing across planning and reporting cycles.
• Analyzing and resolving complex issues:
Investigate incomplete or incorrect value chains, identify root causes, and determine the appropriate corrective actions in close collaboration with process and system experts.
• Managing GVC tools and data:
Work with the GVC Planning Tool, Sales Structure Status, Validation Tool, and relevant SAP/ERP data to analyze cases, maintain required inputs, and verify results after cycle runs.
• Managing escalations and priorities:
Act as a second-level support contact for complex cases, document open issues, proactively identify risks, and support prioritization based on business deadlines and COGS readiness requirements.
• Coordinating end-to-end solutions:
Collaborate with GBS Product Costing, local and corporate Controlling, Supply Chain, IT, process owners, and external support partners to resolve cross-functional dependencies.
• Ensuring data quality and controls:
Validate that changes are complete, traceable, and compliant with applicable finance procedures, governance standards, and risk-control requirements before closure.
• Supporting business cycles and transitions:
Contribute to Budget, LTF, Outlook, and Actuals activities, as well as deployments, migrations, hypercare phases, and the transition of new processes into stable operations.
• Creating transparency:
Maintain status overviews, prepare ad hoc analyses, and communicate progress, blockers, decisions, and required actions to relevant stakeholders.
• Driving process and tool improvements:
Identify recurring issues, propose practical improvements, support automation, standardization, and the further development of GVC-related tools and reporting solutions.
• Building sustainable knowledge:
Create and maintain process documentation, work instructions, decision guides, and training materials; facilitate workshops and knowledge-transfer sessions within the global team.
About our future employee
You should combine strong analytical skills and management accounting expertise with a hands-on, service-oriented mindset. The ability to navigate ambiguity, structure complex issues, and coordinate solutions in an international, virtual environment will be key to success in this role.
Additionally, we are looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Controlling, Business Administration or a comparable field.
- Approximately 3 to 5 years of relevant professional experience in management accounting, product costing, operations controlling or a related finance process, ideally in a manufacturing environment.
- Sound understanding of product costing, cost-of-goods and end-to-end value-chain processes.
- Strong SAP/ERP knowledge and confidence in working with financial systems, data extracts and reporting tools.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate data inconsistencies and translate findings into clear actions.
- Professional English skills, ideally at C1 level, for effective collaboration in a global environment.
- Very good knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
- A structured, customer-oriented mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to challenge assumptions, proactively manage risks, and drive issues to resolution.
- A collaborative approach combined with an interest in process improvement, automation, standardization, and knowledge sharing; experience in global planning cycles, transfer pricing, or inventory accounting is an advantage.