Position :

Controller – Manufacturing Accounting

Job Type :

Contract - 6 Months

Hours: : US Shift Timings (6.30PM-4.00AM) Location

: HYBRID, Chennai

ERP :

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Reports to

: CEO

What You'll Do

Cost accounting – the core of the job

- Own the standard cost library: material, labor, and overhead rates. Run the periodic standards roll, document every assumption behind it, and defend the result.
- Analyze and report purchase price variance – what we paid against standard, by raw material, with the commentary that explains it.
- Own the manufacturing variance set: material usage and yield, labor efficiency, and overhead spending and absorption. Tie every variance back to a production run, not a plug.
- Reconcile costed bills of material and routings to actual consumption, and flag where the BOM no longer reflects how the line really runs.
- Value inventory across raw material, work in process, and finished goods, including reserves for excess, obsolete, and short-dated stock.
- Reconcile cycle counts and physical inventory book-to-physical, investigate the differences, and explicit them. A variance you cannot explain is an open item, not a rounding.
- Track the cost of quality: scrap, rework, product on hold and its release, lab and testing spend.
- Allocate freight-in and landed cost to the right units.

Margin, pricing, and profitability

- Produce customer and SKU-level profitability by customer code name the

analysis that tells our commercial team which business is actually earning its keep.
- Model toll rates against margin floors and blended targets, and give the margin read

on customer quotes before they go out.
- Quantify and track cost-out initiatives with Operations: identify them, size them, and report

whether they actually landed.
- · Surface the financial risk you see in the numbers – raw material price movement, production

variance trends, margin erosion, customer concentration.

Close and reporting

- · Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close,



delivering P&L;, balance sheet, and cash
- flow within 7 business days of month-end.
- · Reconcile every balance sheet account monthly, with supporting schedules retained and reviewable.
- · Maintain the chart of accounts and journal entry standards in Business Central.
- · Build the financial section of the monthly board package and the budget-versus-

actual reporting behind it.
- · Write the variance commentary: what changed, why, whether it is temporary or structural,

and what needs a decision. Controls, audit, and documentation

- Prepare the full PBC package for our external audit and own the preparer-side response cycle.
- Maintain the authorization limits framework, enforce segregation of duties

and dual approvals, and escalate anything that bypassed them.
- Support sales and use tax, payroll tax oversight, 1099 and W-9 administration, PACA

license maintenance, and state grant reporting – prepared by you, filed by our U.S. team and advisors.
- · Write and maintain desk procedures for every recurring process you own. This is a

standing expectation, not a one-time project – we are explicitly trying to end the era of undocumented financ

Team

- Give day-to-day technical direction to our Cost Accounting Manager and Staff Accountant on

close deliverables, costing method, and reconciliation quality.
- Review their work and raise the standard of it. Formal HR matters reviews, compensation,

discipline stay with the CEO and HR onsite.

What You'll Bring

Required

- CPA or Chartered Accountant.
- · 0+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years personally owning a





full monthly close – running one, not supporting one.
- Hands-on manufacturing cost accounting under a standard costing system. This is our

screening requirement. You should be able to walk us through a purchase price variance and a yield variance you personally calculated, explained, and defended.
- · Inventory accounting across raw material, WIP, and finished goods, including reserves and

physical- count reconciliation.
- · A manufacturing ERP with a real costing module, used hands-on – Dynamics 365 Business

Central, Dynamics NAV or AX, SAP, Oracle, or NetSuite.
- Working U.S. GAAP fluency, including ASC 842 lease accounting.
- Business-fluent written and spoken English. You will write directly to our CEO, our sponsor

finance team, and our auditors, so written clarity is part of how we evaluate candidates.
- · The ability to work U.S. Central hours sustainably, including close weeks. We would rather

you have worked this shift before than agree to try it.

Preferred

- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central specifically – it is our system, and direct experience

shortens your ramp considerably.
- Food, CPG, or USDA-regulated manufacturing. Co-manufacturing or contract manufacturing

is even better.
- The controller is genuinely hands-on rather than supervising a department.
- Audit PBC preparation as the preparer, working directly with a U.S. firm.
- Experience as the offshore counterpart to a U.S. finance team – you already understand the

prepare-here, approve-there rhythm.
- A manufacturing execution system such as RedZone, or an EDI platform such as SPS Commerce.

Nice to have

- · CMA or CGMA alongside your primary credential.
- · Turnaround, transition, or finance-function build experience.
- · Multi-plant or multi-entity consolidation exposure.
- · Experience standing up finance documentation and SOPs where none existed.

Interested Candidates can apply in Linkedin or send a mail to S [email protected]

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