Product Cost Engineer BI
Apply now »Date: 22 Nov 2024
Location: Cluj-Napoca, RO
Company: Alstom
At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
Could you be the full-time Product Cost Analytics Specialist in Cluj-Napoca, Romania we’re looking for?
Your future role
As a Product Cost Analytics Specialist in the Cost Optimization team, you will report directly to Razvan Brie, the Product Cost Platform Leader based in Cluj-Napoca. Under Razvan's guidance and leadership, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams and work closely with Systems Product Cost Engineers to develop innovative costing tools and solutions for our extensive costing network.
Your primary responsibilities will involve designing and creating new databases based on business requirements, ensuring data integrity and security. Additionally, you will update and maintain existing databases, optimize performance, and implement necessary updates. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will identify data requirements, define data models, and implement efficient and scalable database solutions. Troubleshooting and resolving database-related issues will also be part of your responsibilities to ensure minimal downtime and efficient data access for end-users.
We’ll look to you for:
- Design and create new databases based on business requirements, ensuring data integrity, security, and optimal performance.
- Continuously update and maintain existing databases, including performing data cleansing, implementing backup and recovery procedures, to ensure data accuracy and availability
- Optimize database performance through regular performance tuning activities, including indexing, query optimization, and other relevant techniques.
- Foster effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders, providing regular updates, seeking feedback, and addressing any concerns or issues related to database design, performance, and usability.
- Troubleshoot and resolve database-related issues, ensuring minimal downtime and efficient data access for end-users
- Implement efficient and scalable database solutions that meet the identified data requirements, ensuring seamless data access and usability for end-users.
- Adhere to data quality standards by performing data cleansing, validation, and error handling within databases to ensure high-quality and reliable data.
All about you
We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:
- Proficiency in database design and development.
- Ability to identify and resolve database-related issues, ensuring optimal performance and data integrity.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Strong analytical skills to analyze data, identify patterns, and make informed decisions for database design and optimization.
- Adaptability to evolving technologies, emerging trends, and changing business needs in the database field.
- Skills in ensuring data quality, performing data cleansing, validation, and error handling within databases.
- Fluent in English with an international background.
- Committed, respectful of commitments, and diligent in meeting deadlines.
- Open-minded and user-oriented, with the ability to understand and translate the needs of different domains into data-driven tools or models.
- Dynamic, proactive, rigorous, and structured approach to work.
- Knowledge and/or experience in costing methodologies and functional analysis (Should Cost / Could Cost) is a plus.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Excel, VBA (medium), ERP systems (preferable), and Qlik package (preferable).
Things you’ll enjoy
Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:
- Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
- Be part of a large team with over 800 professionals in HR, Finance and Procurement & Supply Chain
- Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
- Utilise our Agile, Responsible and Inclusive working environment
- Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
- Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning (Access to Alstom University and Alstom Learning Program)
- Professional Development Plan – we offer great opportunities to develop yourself within the company
- Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential (Competitive Salary and Meal Vouchers, Flexible Benefits at your choice - on top of your salary, Holiday Bonuses (Easter, Christmas), Employee Loyalty Bonus, Reimbursement of telework expenses – for amount of days worked from home, Additional Bonuses - referral bonuses, /new-born bonus, discounts)
- Entitle to comprehensive and competitive social coverage (Life and Accident Insurance, Private medical subscription at Regina Maria and Private Pension)
- Work-life balance- we offer flexible working hours and a hybrid model of work ( Working from Home 3 days/ week) and 25 days of annual leave
- Be part of our Social Corporate Responsibilities initiatives (Social events, Humanitarian Actions)
You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!
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Important to note
As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 70+ countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.
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