P5P5 — Expert Professional
Senior
Manages the entire cost accounting function. Sets strategic goals for cost reporting, control, and analysis.
What this level means
Expert in field; key problem solver and project leader, authority in multiple areas
- Scope
- Multiple systems or a technical domain
- Autonomy
- Sets direction within the domain
- Complexity
- Novel, high-ambiguity problems; establishes the approach
- Impact
- Org / multi-team outcomes
- Decision rights
- Authority over a technical domain
- Leadership
- Leads cross-team technical initiatives
- Typical experience
- 8–12 yrs
What you'd do
- Manages the entire cost accounting function
- Sets strategic goals
- Leads budgeting and forecasting efforts
- Manage the cost accounting function
- Set and align strategic goals
- Lead budgeting and forecasting
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Visionary leadership
- Strategic goal setting
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Cost function management
- Strategic decision-making
- Objective alignment
- Financial control
- Analysis leadership
- Comprehensive cost accounting
- Strategic leadership
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Financial control
- Strategic goal alignment
- Decision-making in accounting
- Cost function management
- Analysis strategies
- Provides visionary leadership
- Aligns cost accounting objectives
- Makes strategic decisions
What good looks like
- Comprehensive knowledge of finance and operations
- Leadership skills in managing teams
- Strategic planning experience
- Budgeting and forecasting expertise
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
O*NET / SOC: 13-0000 — Business & Financial Operations Occupations (inferred)