About the Role
Our client, a market-leading global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider, is seeking a skilled Costing Manager to lead cost accounting, profitability analysis, and cost-control frameworks at their high-tech manufacturing facility in Samut Prakan.
Reporting to Finance Leadership, you will serve as the strategic link between plant operations, supply chain, program management, and financial control. You will ensure accurate product costing, precise inventory valuation, robust variance tracking, and transparent RFQ quotation analysis across high-mix electronics, custom cable assembly, and box-build production lines serving key global industries.
Key Responsibilities
- Standard Costing & Valuation: Oversee standard cost setting, annual routing updates, and revaluations across SMT/PCBA, cable harnesses, and box-build products.
- RFQ & Commercial Analysis: Partner with Engineering, NPI, and Commercial teams to review customer RFQs, analyze complex BOM costs, verify run-rates, and validate quote margins.
- Variance Analysis: Perform monthly manufacturing variance analysis (MPV, MUV, labor efficiency, overhead absorption) to identify drivers and recommend cost-saving initiatives.
- Inventory Control: Lead inventory accounting, NRV assessments, slow-moving/obsolete (SLOB) provision analysis, and physical stock audits.
- Profitability Reporting: Generate detailed product-line and customer-segment profitability reports to support executive decision-making.
- ERP Optimization: Maintain cost accounting modules in the enterprise ERP system (e.g., SAP, Oracle, or Dynamics AX) while ensuring data integrity and process automation.
- Business Partnership: Collaborate with Production, Supply Chain, and Logistics to improve operational efficiency, reduce scrap, and shorten cycle times.
- Compliance & Audit: Ensure adherence to internal accounting controls and support external audits for plant inventory and COGS.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Cost Accounting, or a related field.
- 5–8 years of hands-on cost accounting and costing management experience within the EMS, contract manufacturing, PCBA, or high-mix electronics sectors.
- Strong technical expertise in Standard Costing, multi-level BOM structures, operational routing, and inventory accounting.
- Proven track record in RFQ review, variance analysis (MPV, MUV), and yield/scrap reporting.
- Proficiency in Tier-1/Tier-2 ERP systems (e.g., SAP CO/MM, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics AX) and advanced Microsoft Excel skills.