Product Cost Controller COE Europe

Are you ready for a (literally!) fresh start to your career? Our colleagues at the Finance department Europe are ready to work with you to ensure that everyone can enjoy our delicious freshmakers and sweets every day. 🍬

This is where we need you!

At Perfetti Van Melle Europe, Finance is the backbone of our organization, connecting multiple departments from Production to Supply Chain and commercial operations. Our Finance team ensures data integrity, provides critical insights, and performs complex calculations that drive business decisions and enhance profitability.

Every member of our team plays a key role in streamlining financial processes, ensuring compliance, and delivering actionable insights. Now, we’re looking for a Product Costing Accountant to join us on this journey and contribute to the success of our regional operations.

This is what your fresh start as Product Costing Accountant will look like:

As a Product Costing Accountant, you will ensure the integrity of financial data across purchasing, inventory, and selling processes for Perfetti Van Melle Europe. You will oversee general ledger accuracy for Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), inventory, and logistics accounts, while monitoring variances and reconciling discrepancies. Collaborating closely with the Junior Product Cost Analyst and Senior Financial Controller, your work will form the foundation for financial insights, rolling forecasts, and compliance reporting.

This role reports directly to the Product Cost Analyst and is part of our European Finance team. You will work with data from more than 14 countries and over 6,000 SKUs, playing a vital role in ensuring seamless integration between operational cost management and financial control.

Your core tasks in a nutshell:

• Ensure Financial Integrity: Manage and reconcile general ledger accounts for COGS, inventory valuation, and logistics costs. Validate invoices for freight, duties, handling, and subcontracting, ensuring alignment with budgets and accruals.
• Perform Variance Analysis: Analyze discrepancies in material costs, logistics expenses, and inventory movements, providing critical insights for rolling forecasts and financial reporting.
• Manage Material Ledger: Oversee the Material Ledger to ensure accurate inventory valuation and actual costing in multiple currencies. Reconcile variances and execute period-end closing activities, ensuring compliance with valuation methods and corporate financial policies. Resolve financial variances with the Junior Product Costing Analyst.
• Collaborate for Success: Partner with the Product Cost Analyst and Junior Product Cost Analyst to support cost price management, variance resolution, and strategic financial reporting. Act as a back-up for product cost calculation, to ensure business continuance.
• Resolve Logistic Variance Discrepancies: Investigate and resolve mismatches between accrued and invoiced logistics costs, supporting timely and accurate financial reporting.

The ingredients of Perfetti Van Melle, does it include your taste?

You will work at the third largest confectionery group in the world - and second in Europe. But we want to continue to grow and become the best at making candy, where we can use all the help of our colleagues!

We see our employees as the most important ingredient and therefore we have something for everyone:

Empowering:

Everyone has every opportunity to develop and make a difference. For example, we have a huge range of (tailor-made) training courses.

Fun:

Who doesn't actually dream of working at a candy factory? We would also like to maintain our family atmosphere, because that makes us unique and has brought us to where we are today. We do everything to make you feel at home with us, such as an annual beach volleyball and hockey tournament. But also an annual CSR day to be committed to the community.

Innovation:

We must respond to the ongoing social debate on sugar and health, but also to deal with issues such as: environmental pollution, packaging and food safety. Enough challenges!

Dynamic:

It may sound cliché, but with branches in more than 30 countries, we are a dynamic and vibrant organization.

The ideal recipe for our Junior Product Costing Analyst:

We may not have to tell you that you are the best with numbers and loving the complexity of it (but we do it to be sure!). These are, in our opinion, the ideal ingredients to make this role a success:

• Bachelor degree in Business Administration or Economics;
• 5 years experience in Financial Controlling (Accounting) is required;
• Fluent in English;
• Experience with SAP is required, S4/HANA is a plus;
• Experience with Material Ledger in SAP is a plus;
• Experience as a cost analyst, cost specialist or similar role is a plus;
• Relevant knowledge of Dutch labor legislation;
• Experience in data, operational and financial analysis;
• Business Intelligence experience (i.e. MS Excel, Power BI, Power Query);
• Ideally, knowledge of accounting processes related to supply chain and corporate ERP (SAP);
• Furthermore you have a business-oriented mindset, which means you support the business financial growth and cost control;
• You have a clear understanding of the roles involved in product costing and proactively reach out for info gathering and follow up on projects.