Lead Product Cost Controller
Employer · GE Vernova
ConductorFull-timeBudapest
The Product Cost Controller is responsible for the financial integrity and strategic governance of standard costing for the Greenville and Forrester manufacturing operations. This role serves as a key financial partner, driving the annual cost-setting process through rigorous data validation, variance analysis, and internal control oversight.
Tasks
- Strategic Financial Planning & Governance: Lead the end-to-end annual standard cost lifecycle, ensuring alignment with corporate financial planning, COE guidance, and controllership directives.
- Cost Simulation & Analytics: Execute iterative simulations of material and labor roll-ups. Analyze YoY variances and identify drivers of cost fluctuations, ensuring data integrity in the ERP environment.
- Cost Quantification: Manage the quantification of mixed-source materials (Internal purchase vs. 3rd Party-subcontracting), ensuring accurate cost assignment for subcontracted service.
- Master Data Governance: Oversee the integrity of critical part lists, ensuring that internal feeds, Bill of Materials, and data inputs for calculation proposed new standard prices are properly mapped and reconciled.
- Internal Controls (SOX): Maintain strict adherence to SOX requirements; schedule and lead formal validation reviews with site leadership to ensure the validity of final published standards.
- Audit Readiness: Act as the financial point of contact for internal/external audits, providing documentation and facilitating annual reviews.
- Quarterly Performance Management: Conduct 1Q deep-dives and post-cycle corrections; maintain the financial integrity of the system through structured workflows.
- Operational Analytics & Reporting: Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in key supply chain and financial processes related to smaller sites' inventory and standard costing.
- Virtual Support for Physical Operations: Provide remote or optional in-person financial oversight and analytical support for physical inventory cycles.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or Business
- Relevant finance experience, preferably within manufacturing or supply chain environments
- Knowledge of accounting principles and inventory-related processes (US GAAP preferred)
- Experience using ERP systems (SAP, Oracle or similar)
- Familiarity with digital analytics or automation tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage deliverables independently, ability to present results and escalate issues to leadership
- Fluent English communication skills, both written and verbal