Cost Control Manager

We are seeking an experienced Cost Control Manager to lead and standardize the costing framework across our factory operations. This role involves overseeing product, process, batch, and landed-costing activities to ensure accurate cost and margin analysis. The successful candidate will strengthen costing controls and deliver reliable insights that support pricing strategies, budgeting, profitability assessments, and management decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:
- Own and standardize the overall costing framework, including policies, methodologies, allocation bases, and reporting formats for factory operations.
- Review and approve product, model-wise, batch, process, and landed-cost calculations prepared by the factory costing team.
- Analyze actual versus standard or estimated cost variances and investigate significant deviations related to material, labor, overhead, consumption, wastage, and production efficiency.
- Monitor gross margins and profitability by product, model, and sales channel.
- Review factory management information systems (MIS) reports covering material consumption, production efficiency, inventory movement, and cost trends.
- Ensure reconciliation of costing for raw materials, parts, work-in-progress (WIP), and finished goods with financial records.
- Collaborate with Group FP&A teams on budgeting, forecasting, pricing, projections, and profitability analysis.
- Review inventory valuation, including slow-moving and obsolete stock, and matters related to net realizable value (NRV).
- Develop costing dashboards and management reports for the Group Financial Controller.
- Review and approve costing master data, bill of materials (BOM) assumptions, cost centers, and allocation logic.
- Work closely with the ERP/Odoo project team to incorporate approved costing methodologies and controls into the system accurately.
- Ensure proper costing controls and segregation of duties between factory-level preparation and Head Office review.
- Conduct periodic factory visits to assess costing procedures, controls, and compliance.
- Identify opportunities for cost optimization and challenge abnormal costs, variances, and costing assumptions.

Required Qualifications:
- Professional qualification such as ACMA, CA Finalist, ACCA, or equivalent.
- Minimum of 6 years’ relevant experience in costing, management accounting, FP&A, or financial analysis, preferably within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong expertise in product costing, standard and actual costing, landed costing, variance analysis, inventory valuation, and profitability analysis.
- Solid understanding of BOMs, production processes, overhead allocation, cost centers, and manufacturing MIS.
- Experience working with ERP systems; familiarity with Odoo is a plus.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial reporting/dashboard development.

This role offers the opportunity to play a pivotal part in enhancing cost control processes and delivering actionable financial insights that drive operational efficiency and profitability. If you have a strong background in manufacturing costing and a passion for accuracy and continuous improvement, we encourage you to apply.