Cost Price Analyst

As a Cost Price Analyst, you will be the financial link between Supply Chain and Commercial teams for one of our Royal FrieslandCampina business groups. You’ll translate data into insights and support decision-making across our Supply Chain and Commercial teams. This is an ideal role for someone with 0–3 years’ experience who wants to grow into a financial or business analyst role in an international and data-driven environment.

In this role, you will act as the Finance Business Partner for cost pricing within one of our RFC business groups, supporting the management, analysis, and communication of cost price performance across the company.

What we ask

Skills & Competencies

• Strong analytical skills and affinity with BI tools
• Ability to translate data into clear conclusions and advice
• Proactive and self-starting mindset
• Strong communication skills; able to connect easily across teams and confidently present insights and results to colleagues and stakeholders at all levels
• A drive for improvement and standardization

Experience & Education

• University degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or Business Information Management
• 0–3 years of work experience (finance or supply chain experience beneficial, not required)
• Fluent in English
• Experience with Power BI and MS Office (Excel / PowerPoint)

Please include a motivation letter in your application!

What we offer

FrieslandCampina has a unique company culture of Dutch heritage and international presence. The work environment is informal and friendly, where you collaborate with passionate professionals. You will have access to training and coaching to support your professional growth, and internal career development opportunities are actively encouraged. With trust and autonomy, you will have the chance to create lasting impact, contributing to better nutrition for the world.

• Full-time workweek of 38 hours, 5% year-end bonus, 10% performance bonus, and a market-standard pension;
• Flexible working hours and ample opportunities to work from home;
• 200 hours of annual leave, the option to buy or sell 40 extra hours, and 8% holiday allowance;
• Free milk & cheese during lunch and delicious barista coffee at our headquarters.

Vacancy Description & Key Responsibilities

As a Cost Price Analyst, you will act as the Finance Business Partner for cost pricing for one of our RFC business groups. You support how we manage, analyze, and communicate cost price performance across the company. This includes maintaining and analyzing cost prices for products, monitoring trends and variances, and supporting new product development. You provide insights that help Supply Chain and Commercial teams make informed decisions on areas such as pricing, product launches, and profitability management.

• Maintain and analyze cost prices for products, monitor trends and variances, and support new product development.
• Provide insights to Supply Chain and Commercial teams to inform decisions on pricing, product launches, and profitability management.
• Serve as the first point of contact for cost price-related questions, collaborating closely with Supply Chain Finance and Commercial Finance stakeholders.
• Collect and consolidate cost price inputs during the annual update cycle, presenting them to commercial teams to ensure transparency and alignment.
• Coordinate the monthly cost price outlook, gathering input from stakeholders and ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Maintain and prepare the outlook in Power BI, enabling commercial and supply chain teams to make decisions based on reliable, up-to-date insights.
• Develop and enhance dashboards and tools with IT Data & Analytics to turn data into actionable insights.
• Contribute to standardizing and digitalizing processes, identifying inefficiencies, automating repetitive tasks, and improving data quality.
• Suggest and implement practical solutions to optimize processes and support better decision making across Supply Chain and Commercial teams.

Business Partnering: You serve as the first point of contact for cost price-related questions. You closely collaborate with Supply Chain Finance (i.e. plant controllers or procurement controllers) and Commercial Finance stakeholders, providing insights that support informed decisions. During the annual update cycle, you collect and consolidate cost price inputs and present them to commercial teams to ensure transparency and full alignment.

Monthly Outlook Process: You coordinate the monthly cost price outlook, gathering input from different stakeholders and ensuring accuracy and consistency. You maintain and prepare the outlook in Power BI, enabling commercial and supply chain teams to make decisions based on reliable, up-to-date insights.

Analytics & Insights: You play a key role in the analytics agenda of the Cost Price Team. Together with IT Data & Analytics, you develop and enhance dashboards and tools that turn data into actionable insights. You contribute to standardizing and digitalizing the way we work. By identifying inefficiencies, automating repetitive tasks, and improving data quality, you help optimize existing processes, enabling more accurate and transparent cost price information. You are encouraged to suggest improvements and implement practical solutions that make our processes more effective and support better decision making across Supply Chain and Commercial teams.

This role offers strong exposure across the organization and creates a solid foundation for future roles such as Business Analyst or Business Controller.

Team Details

You will join the Global Cost Price Team, based in Amersfoort. The team consists of eight colleagues, including Cost Accountants and Cost Price Controlling Analysts, from diverse backgrounds and nationalities. We work closely together and with stakeholders across RFC to create impact on business performance. The atmosphere is collaborative, pragmatic, and focused on continuous improvement.

We work in a hybrid model: typically three days in the office for collaboration and team alignment, and two days working from home for concentrated work.