Costing Analyst
Description
Build your Career with an Industry Leader at our Shared Services Centre in Malaysia.
As a global leader in premium label solutions, our purpose is to deliver the world's best label solutions that help our customers build their brands, while adding value to our employees, our shareholders, and the communities in which we operate.
If you share our vision and believe that you could contribute to the success of our company, we look forward to hearing from you!
Job Highlights:
- Great place to learn and work
- Flexible + Hybrid work culture
Overall Purpose: Responsible for job costing, variance analysis, operational performance review and improvements
Primary Responsibilities:
Job Costing & Variance Analysis
- Understand MCC manufacturing workflow and methodology for machine burden, job costing, variance analysis and inventory valuation.
- Set expectations of daily production levels and monitor SFDC extracts for reasonability.
- Review completed jobs, ensure job costs are properly captured and analyze job variances.
- Investigate job variances above acceptable threshold. Identify and record measurable corrective courses of action with estimator / production manager / plant manager.
Operational Performance Review & Improvements
- Benchmark and track base plant and machine performance levels based on yearly targets.
- Participate in production meetings and report on weekly plant performance.
- Understand financial impact of production reports and persuade internal stakeholders on performance improvement initiatives to drive impactful change.
Compliance Focus
- Ensure full adherence to MCC accounting policies, processes, procedures and authorization levels.
- Ensure full adherence to SOX controls.
- Manage and execute ad-hoc compliance projects identified.
Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to the development and implementation of positive change in the job costing & analysis processes.
- Leverage on use of technology and implement cost-neutral process enhancements.
Service Level
- Promote a strong service ethos to support business units.
- Act as the focal point to ensure effective communication and resolution of key issues and decisions impacting cost accounting.
- Build long-term relationships with MCC internal customers and Leadership.
Culture
- Adopt a high performance, people-powered culture, providing high expectations and high support.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
- 1-3 years of experience in Costing, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
- Self-motivated and proactive, with a willingness to learn and take on new challenges.
Only applicants who can legally live and work in Malaysia will be considered.