PCO & ML Accountant – Manufacturing Costing

About the role

The PCO & ML Accountant supports manufacturing costing activities within Kerry's Global Business Services Finance team. Working under moderate supervision, you will ensure accurate cost flows in SAP, resolve variances, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver reliable financial outcomes for manufacturing sites.

Key responsibilities

• Review process orders, validate confirmations, and resolve variances, rework, scrap and errors.
• Manage Daily Cockpit activities and Monthly DUV reviews to ensure timely issue resolution.
• Respond to plant finance queries and provide insights on cost variances.
• Follow up on open production orders (WIP and release status) for technical closure.
• Partner with Quality teams to close inspections required for order completion.
• Monitor price variances between BOM/recipe standards and actual production results.
• Ensure accurate costing for new product introductions, including recipe validation.
• Support Material Master data validation related to costing views and routing.
• Execute month‑end closing activities, settlement and variance analysis.
• Validate and troubleshoot cost flows in SAP based on manufacturing processes.
• Apply Operational Excellence practices such as JDI, SIA and KPI tracking.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering or related field.
• 1+ years of experience in cost accounting, manufacturing finance or a shared services environment.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and cost structures.
• Basic knowledge of project and change management.
• Familiarity with Operational Excellence concepts and KPIs.
• Fluent English.

Required skills

• SAP (process orders, material master costing views, costing transactions).
• Microsoft Excel.
• Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Microsoft Outlook.