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About this position

The Cost Controller’s role is pivotal in supporting the Head of Finance & Controlling in overseeing all aspects of cost control, internal controls, annual budgeting and forecasting, and ensuring timely and accurate month-end reporting. He/she will collaborate closely with the operational team to maintain the business's profitability and drive cost-saving initiatives through economic efficiency. Cost Controller will be predetermined as successor to Head of Finance & Controlling. This position is directly reported to Head of Finance & Controlling.

Responsibilities

• Propose and build cost controlling strategies from the bottom up, initiate measures with regard to cost management and control.
• Sharply and accurately identify cost risks and opportunities; and drive alignment around operational and financial actions to either minimize or mitigate risks.
• Works closely with production to ensure accurate and timely capture of all production costs and variances.
• Achieve real time monthly closing without compromising accounting quality and accuracy – including accruals, cost center and cost unit accounting. Running variance analysis of performance, and preparation of management reports.
• Reconciliation of ERP systems and work towards full alignment, building visualization reporting and analysis – improve efficiency and presentation of data retrieved from ERP systems.
• Ensure compliance to global and Thai GAAP requirements across all manufacturing related costs.
• Coordinate the gathering of assumptions for BOM usages, scrap rates, line speeds, and other key metrics for periodic forecasts.
• Prepare and validate unit costing calculations.
• Develops, monitors, and analyzes manufacturing overhead allocation and hourly rates to ensure transparency and accuracy of the production costs.
• Defining annual standard production cost.
• Review plant overheads monthly, ensuring accuracy and completeness of plant overhead costs.
• Prepare monthly analysis to support validation of variable costs;
• Handle responsibility & monitor full set of manufacturing cost. Including standard cost, BOM, Routing & analysis all type of variance.
• Preparation and interpretation of company’s reports related to production topics (quality cost reporting, productivity, material price variation, Cost Saving Projects, labor costs analysis, machine costs analysis).
• Offers support and guidance for different production-related topics and for cost-improvement projects.
• Coordinate monthly stock takes and seek insight of plant staff to validate stock take differences; Lead in inventory revaluation and validation of changes in inventory value.

Requirements

• Assisting the Head of Finance & Controlling in the direction of the accounting functions. Ensuring timeliness and accuracy of the financial statements.
• Handle and oversee all day-to-day general ledger, special ledgers transactions and bank reconciliations.
• Ensuring all level of posting and closing quality in the monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements to be prepared, taking into account all relevant accounting standards and internal group requirements.

Benefits