Senior Costing and Inventory Analyst

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Position Description

This role will play a crucial part within the Elanco Shared Service Centre's Record to Report (RtR) team, focusing on cost accounting and inventory accounting activities with a global scope.

This position will also provide cross-support to the wider RtR team based on ongoing business requirements.

The ideal candidate will contribute to the accuracy and completeness of month-end closing processes and related inventory/cost accounting activities across multiple entities.

This requires strict adherence to company policies while working closely with the local affiliates.

Actual Costing Responsibilities


* Execute and document actual costing processes for multiple entities


* Self driven analysis of actual costing results and variances to ensure accuracy and compliance with internal policies, including SOx control submissions

Standard Costing Responsibilities


* Responsibility for the preparation and analysis of standard costing for all affiliates globally


* Alignment with multiple stakeholders from finance, supply chain and master data


* Annual execution


* In year ad hoc costing


* Monitoring of automated in year group costing and resolution of any errors

General Responsibilities


* Conduct general costing data quality sweeps to ensure accuracy across all downstream accounting processes


* Scope for further costing and inventory accounting related activities as the team is stabilized


* Be seen as a “go to” information resource for costing accounting and inventory related queries


* Support global/regional projects as required


* Ad hoc cross support for the ESC RTR team, as required


* Ensure adherence to the standard month end/quarter/year end timelines


* Build and maintain a strong knowledge of your affiliates’ business


* Demonstrate a strong continuous improvement oriented approach & help to build a strong continuous improvement culture


* Report end-to-end process metrics and KPIs to measure service levels, operational effectiveness, process health, and p...