??'?? ?????? ? ????????? ???????? – ???????? & ??????? ??????????? (???) Sturlite Electric Private Limited ? Bengaluru, Karnataka | In office | Full-time Three businesses. Thousands of SKUs. One question: where exactly do we make money? Sturlite Electric is one of India's established names in lighting and electricals, with a network of 16,000+ dealers across 25 states. We're scaling our lighting manufacturing and building two new businesses from scratch, Wires & Cables and Switches. New businesses need cost and margin numbers they can trust from day one. We're looking for three Cost Accountants who will build those numbers, keep them honest, and help the people running these businesses act on them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? ????? ?????????, ??? ??? ???? ???????? ? ????? & ?????? ? ???????? ? ???????? ????????????? Each role owns business and product controlling for one business unit. Experience in a similar category (cables, wiring devices, lighting or consumer electricals) will be a strong advantage for that role but not necessarily a pre-requisite ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? ??? ???? You'll own business and product controlling for your business unit end to end. You'll report to the Group Finance Controller and work directly with your BU head as their finance partner in decision-making. You'll also work every day with plant teams, procurement and sales. You'll be part of a team of three controllers working side by side, sharing costing standards, methods and learnings across the group. This is not a reporting role. You'll be the person who can explain why a SKU's margin moved, what the options are, and what we should do about it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? ???? ??????? ????? ???? ?? ???? ????? ???? ▸ ????? ?? ????: Validated standard costs and BOM-based cost sheets live for every active SKU in your business ▸ ?? ????? ?: A monthly product-level P&L; and margin bridge that your BU head uses in reviews, and the first round of plant-level audits completed, with action points closed ▸ ?? ????? ??: A working variance loop where every material, yield and conversion variance has an owner and a fix, and costing drives pricing,



sourcing and investment decisions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ?️ ???? ???'?? ?? ???????? ?????????? ???? ???? ?? ????
• Act as the finance partner to your BU head
• Support decisions on pricing, product mix, sourcing, capacity and channel strategy with clear numbers and scenario analysis
• Bring the margin story to monthly business reviews: what moved, why, and what to do next
• Challenge assumptions constructively and make sure decisions are grounded in cost and profitability data ??????? ??????????? & ???????
• Build and maintain standard costs, BOMs and cost sheets for every SKU
• Analyse variances in material price, usage, conversion and overhead absorption, and follow through with plant and procurement teams until each one is fixed
• Track commodity exposure on copper, aluminium, PVC, polycarbonate and electronic components, and show how it affects margins and pricing
• Support new launches with should-cost models, target costing and pricing inputs
• Support make-vs-buy and OEM/job-work evaluations ???????? ???????????
• Prepare monthly P&L; reviews: actual vs budget, and contribution by product, channel and region
• Support the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts and capex evaluations
• Track working capital, inventory health, and slow-moving and obsolete stock
• Maintain KPI dashboards for business and leadership reviews ??????, ???????? & ??????????
• Manage cost audit and cost records compliance under the Companies Act, and act as the point of contact with cost auditors
• Plan and conduct plant-level audits covering inventory, consumption, yield and scrap, process controls, and job-work reconciliations
• Strengthen inventory valuation, costing processes and plant-level controls based on audit findings




• Build costing discipline into the ERP and automate recurring MIS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ???'?? ?????? ???? ?? ???
• Are a qualified Cost Accountant (CMA/CWA) with at least 4–5 years of post-qualification experience in costing and business controlling in manufacturing, ideally electricals, FMEG, cables or consumer durables will be an added bonus.
• Have hands-on experience with cost audits (statutory cost audit, cost records and CRA forms) and with plant-level audits (physical verification, consumption and yield audits, and internal control reviews)
• Have worked directly with BU or plant heads as a finance partner, supporting real business decisions, not just producing reports
• Know standard costing, BOM costing and variance analysis well enough to explain them on the shop floor, not just in a spreadsheet
• Work hands-on in an ERP (SAP CO/FICO preferred) and in advanced Excel; Power BI is a plus
• Are comfortable questioning a plant team on yields and presenting options to your BU head with equal clarity
• Are willing to travel to our manufacturing locations ⚠️ ???? ???? ??? ??? ???? ??? ?? You prefer a fully set-up function with every process already in place. Two of these three businesses are new, and you'll be building as much as running. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? ??? ???? ?? ▸ ??? ? ????????: Be the dedicated controller for one BU, not one of many on a shared desk ▸ ?????, ???'? ???????: Set up controlling for a new business from the ground up, or sharpen it in an established one ▸ ? ???? ?? ??? ?????: Work directly with your BU head, and your analysis will feed straight into pricing, sourcing and investment decisions ▸ ????????: Regular interaction with the Group CFO and leadership ▸ ??????: A fast-expanding group where the role grows as the business scales ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? ??? ?? ????? Apply directly on LinkedIn using the "Apply" button on this listing. Know a strong CMA who'd fit? Tag them below ? #Hiring #CostAccountant #CMA #CWA #BusinessControlling #ProductCosting #CostAudit #Manufacturing #FMEG #Electricals #WiresAndCables #Lighting #FinanceJobs #Sturlite #BengaluruJobs

📌 Cost Accountant (Bengaluru)
🏢 Sturlite India
📍 Bengaluru