Designation- Cost Accountant

Shift timings- 4 PM- 1 AM

Location- Mohali

Key responsibilities

Data and reconciliation

- Reconcile ERP extracts (item master, inventory, production, purchasing, payroll) to the general ledger before any analysis.
- Identify SKUs with missing, incomplete or outdated standards, BOMs and routings.

Standard costing

- Set and revise material standards from current purchase prices and negotiated PO costs.
- Build labor standards per SKU from payroll data and time studies: standard hours, rates and labor cost.
- Recalculate overhead absorption rates and the cost pools behind them.
- Roll revised standards up through BOMs and routings and quantify the change in inventory value by SKU.

Variance analysis

- Analyze purchase price variance (PPV) and split it into:

o buying variance: standard cost vs. negotiated PO price o market timing variance: negotiated price vs. market price at receipt
- Analyze labor and overhead over- and under-absorption, and usage and efficiency variances.
- Support landed cost work, allocating freight-in and import tariffs to SKUs.

Models and reporting

- Build reusable, refreshable Excel and Power Query models that rerun on new extracts with minimal manual work.
- Document assumptions, sources and method so another analyst can pick up the work.
- Prepare explicit working papers and summaries for manager and client review.

Client delivery

- Work directly with US clients and partner firms, sending information requests with checklists ahead of each deadline.
- Flag data gaps and risks to deadlines at least 7 days early.




- Ask follow-up questions that build on earlier answers rather than repeat them.
- Submit a detailed monthly timesheet of hours and activities.

Must-have qualifications
- CMA, CA, ICWA or MBA (Finance), or an equivalent cost accounting qualification.
- 5+ years of hands-on cost accounting in a manufacturing business or a firm serving manufacturers. GL, AP, AR or general FP&A experience alone does not qualify.
- Direct work on all of the following:

o standard costing: setting, rolling up and revising standards o BOMs and routings: building, reviewing and correcting them o labor and overhead absorption, including over- and under-absorption o purchase price variance analysis o inventory valuation and roll-forwards
- Reconciling ERP or inventory sub-ledger extracts to the GL.
- Advanced Excel: lookups, pivots, dynamic arrays, scenario logic, large data sets.
- Power Query: building refreshable transformations, not just basic imports.
- Experience in at least one manufacturing ERP, such as NetSuite, Sage, Epicor, SAP (CO/PP),

Dynamics or Plex.
- Clear written English and confident calls with US clients.
- Willing to work the US-overlap shift.

Good to have

- Experience with sheet metal, fabricated, machined or plated components, or industrial manufacturing generally. Plex experience is a plus.
- Landed cost work: freight-in allocation, import duties, HTS codes, country of origin.
- Time studies or engineered labor standards.
- Costing for multi-location or multi-entity manufacturers, including post-acquisition cost harmonization.
- Power BI for variance and margin dashboards.
- Experience with US GAAP inventory rules (ASC 330) and capitalizing variances.

📌 Cost Accountant (Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar)
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📍 Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar