NA COGS Finance Controller

Job Description:

Welcome to Haleon. We're a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we've grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter - one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands - including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® - lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it's time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose - to deliver better everyday health with humanity - at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

As COGS Controller, you will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and transparency of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) reporting across North America. Your role will focus on controlling and validating COGS elements across the annual, monthly and quarterly closes, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and alignment with corporate reporting requirements.
You will provide accurate, timely, and insightful analysis of COGS to support management decision-making and profitability assessments. In addition, you will partner closely with in-market finance teams, global stakeholders, and extended cost teams to coordinate and ensure the correct accounting of COGS information. This collaboration will drive consistency in reporting, eliminate discrepancies, and strengthen financial governance.

The COGS Controller will also consolidate analytical requests related to COGS, monitor variances, and ensure that supplementary reporting (e.g., tariffs, repack fees, and other commercial costs) is properly reflected in the financial statements. Building strong cross-functional relationships will be key to fostering a "One Team" approach and supporting the company's accelerated close and standard cost processes.

Key responsibilities
* NA COGS Governance Leader
* Deliver COGS reporting accuracy and timely. Provide business commentaries to explain performance. Partner with E2E costing teams to drive right first-time standard setting.
* Provide the right partnership to your stakeholders adding value in all key activities perform.
* Ensure SOX controls are performed with the right quality that is expected. You will support the analyst and all SOX and audit testing and report key performance indicators to the leadership team.
* Support Controlling teams, Inventory and SMAS teams in COGS related analysis and support.
* Perform regular Month-end analysis: COGS, SKU level validations of COGS, variance analysis vs Plan and Forecast.
* Perform insight and consolidation for Price Volume analysis
* Conduct thorough review and analysis of cost of goods sold profitability review, ensuring accurate interpretation and clear communication of their impact.
* Lead and oversee the Transfer Pricing process for North America, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and alignment with corporate financial strategies
* Support activities related to Annual Standard Setting (FLIP)
* Able to simplify processes/activities to increase efficiency and focus the team in more add value activities.
* Completing ad-hoc reporting requests from in-market finance teams or the FD.

Qualifications and skills
Essential
* Bachelor's degree in business administration or finance.
* 10+ years of financial and supply chain accounting reporting and audit experience

* Essential Skills and Abilities:
* Operating at pace and agile decision-making - using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.
* Strong in building relationships and collaboration and stakeholder management
* Continuous improvement mindset.
* Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.

Job Posting End Date

2026-06-19

Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected - all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It's important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

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Note to candidates

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