Finance Costing COE (Centre of Excellence) Transformation Expert (SAP Costing)

Location: Spring, Texas, United States of America; 25% travel

Salary: $105,050–$161,800 USD annually, with additional bonus and/or equity opportunities for United States of America candidates only

Company

hirify.global provides technology products and services through a large, complex, global organization.

What you will do

• Design and operationalize the Finance-led Costing Center of Excellence, including its charter, operating model, governance, roles, decision rights, and escalation paths.
• Execute the enterprise costing transformation roadmap and convert current-state gaps into scalable future-state capabilities and measurable outcomes.
• Establish enterprise costing policies, standards, documentation, change control, and exception governance across business units and functions.
• Lead the enterprise cost model and taxonomy design, including cost components, definitions, hierarchies, applicability rules, and product cost rollups.
• Standardize costing methods and processes, including rates, allocations, workflows, approvals, controls, reconciliations, and cross-functional handoffs.
• Define Finance requirements for technology, data, analytics, automation, integrations, data ownership, lineage, and performance insights; lead functional design, validation, business readiness, adoption, training, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Four-year or graduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated competence.
• Typically 12+ years of progressively responsible experience in finance, product costing, enterprise transformation, or related disciplines, including leadership of complex global initiatives.
• Proven record of personally designing and implementing a comparable end-to-end costing transformation in a large, complex, global organization.
• Deep product-costing experience in hardware, manufacturing, or technology environments.
• Experience spanning Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Business Units, data, controls, enterprise architecture, and technology delivery teams.
• Principal-level mastery of enterprise costing practices, operating models, methodologies, controls, and enabling technologies, with the ability to set functional policy and direction.
• Ability to lead large, cross-division, and multi-function transformation efforts, exercise independent judgment, define decision criteria, and mentor SMEs and less-experienced professionals without direct people management responsibility.
• Must provide specific evidence of personally leading and implementing a comparable costing transformation, including starting conditions, design and execution accountability, methods, critical decisions, measurable outcomes, failures, and sustainability after implementation.

Nice to have

• Advanced university degree, professional accounting qualification, or relevant transformation credential.
• Experience spanning software or services business models.
• Experience defining Finance requirements for SAP-based costing environments such as SAP S/4HANA and SAP CO-PC, plus integrated enterprise data and reporting landscapes.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with health, dental, vision, life, disability, and employee assistance benefits.
• Flexible spending account and generous time-off policies.
• Four to twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave based on tenure.
• Eleven paid holidays plus flexible paid vacation and sick leave.
• Bonus and/or equity opportunities may be available to United States of America candidates.