Sr Cost Analyst

at  Emirates Flight Catering

KEY RESULT AREAS:

1.Identify costs, transfer pricing and produce reports to support in suggesting ways to reduce costs.
2.Analyse results; monitor variances; identify trends in food cost, revenue trends including analysis of suppliers and customers; recommend actions to management and as a result contribute towards improving the financial status of EKFC
3.Provide and develop creative alternatives and recommendations for capturing/enhancing financial performance of EKFC
4.Draft and regularly update policies, process and procedures on costing. Ensure these are aligned to best practice and is done in a timely /accurate manner.
5.Recommend and track implementation of process improvement and policy development initiatives that impact the function and follow up on various improvement measures.
6.Develop financial models, conduct benchmarking and process analysis, business studies on past, future and comparative performance and develop forecast models,
7.Prepare reports that evaluate financial risks, ROI and prepare business case to come up with a more profitable alternative for in-house vis-vis outsource materials.
8.Lead key regulatory initiatives/ strategic projects
9.Proactively prepare weekly reports highlighting trends in Catering industry and associated industries such as hospitality, aviation.
10.Analyse and define impact of decisions and make recommendations relating operational decisions with financial impact such as buy/hire, outsource/in-house.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

a)Years of Experience: Minimum 4 years of experience

SKILLS:

Proficient in using ERP, Excel for analysis
Problem solving ability.
Strong team player.
Excellent interpersonal skills.
Good planning and organisational skills

To provide the cost information to the management to control the current operations and plan for the future.
Research and analyse the cost elements, production results and monitor financial impact to support costing department with analytics and recommendations to enable decision making.