Role Overview

This is a specialized Manufacturing finance and management accounting role focused entirely on manufacturing operations. The position acts as a financial bridge between corporate finance and the manufacturing team to optimize costs and maintain strict budgetary control.

Key Responsibilities

1. SAP Costing & BOM Management

- Execute standard costing releases in SAP at regular intervals, ensuring accurate material valuation and cost estimates.
- Conduct regular Bill of Materials (BOM) reviews with engineering and production teams to verify structural and quantitative accuracy.
- Track production variances by performing deep-dive analyses of Standard BOM vs. Actual consumption to isolate yield losses, price variances, and scrap factors.

2. Business Partnering & Budgeting

- Collaborate closely with the manufacturing team to provide actionable operational insights.
- Lead the preparation of annual budgets and rolling forecasts for both Opex and Capex.
- Conduct monthly variance analyses (Budget vs. Actuals) to identify gaps and corrective actions.

3. Cost Optimization & Performance Management





- Drive cost-savings initiatives across the plant to ensure overall spend remains within budget.
- Spearhead monthly reviews on factory costs, production variances, and savings accrued from efficiency programs.
- Partner with operations on manpower optimization and waste elimination projects.

4. Capex Management & Governance

- Build financial business cases for proposed plant machinery, expansions, or upgrades.
- Compute critical metrics including Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Payback Period, and ROI.
- Maintain a detailed tracker of active Capex projects for monthly executive reviews.

5. Inventory & Working Capital Control

- Oversee inventory efficiency for plant spares and manufacturing consumables.
- Minimize working capital drag by monitoring slow-moving items.
- Enforce a strict policy to flag and action unused spares sitting for more than 6 months.

6. Audit, Compliance & Systems

- Coordinate factory audits, including physical stock takes, internal controls, and fixed asset verification.
- Optimize SAP S/4HANA workflows to simplify user tasks while improving the depth of financial data reporting.

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