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Cost Accountant – Manufacturing Job at Movit Products Limited (MPL)
Movit Products Limited (MPL)
Job Description
The Cost Accountant – Manufacturing is responsible for monitoring line utilization, reviewing daily handover reports and reconciliation between production & stores, monitoring yield efficiencies & driving operational efficiency.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
Cost Accounting & Product Costing: Ensure accurate product cost determination and analysis by maintaining cost structures, standard costing, and cost component tracking within the SAP system to support effective pricing, profitability, and cost control decisions.
- Maintain and monitor product cost structures including BOM and routing cost components in SAP.
- Perform standard cost calculation and update standard costs periodically
- Ensure regular and spot stock counts and checks are conducted in a timely manner.
- Analyze material, labor, and overhead cost components.
- Ensure correct cost element mapping and cost center allocation.
- Support product cost roll-up and cost estimate release in SAP.
- SAP Costing & System Controls: Ensure accurate and controlled flow of manufacturing cost data in SAP by maintaining costing structures, validating system integrations, and enforcing proper financial postings across production, materials, and finance modules
- Maintain SAP cost centers, internal orders, and cost elements related to manufacturing.
- Support SAP configuration for product costing and manufacturing cost flows.
- Validate integration between PP, MM, and FI modules impacting costing.
- Ensure accurate postings from Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, and Production Confirmation.
Financial Reporting & Record Keeping (Inventory): Ensure accurate inventory valuation and financial reporting by maintaining proper recording, reconciliation, and monitoring of raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods within the SAP systems
- Monitor raw material, WIP, and finished goods valuation.
- Track manufacturing variances (price, quantity, mix, yield).
- Analyze production order variances and coordinate with production team.
- Monitor and report daily stock levels, flagging anomalies promptly.
- Develop, implement, and maintain effective inventory control procedures.
- Support monthly inventory reconciliation and physical stock verification.
- Support in identifying and reducing obsolete or slow-moving inventory.
- Ensure proper cost allocation to batches and production orders
- Perform monthly manufacturing cost closing activities in SAP.
- Analyze production variances and prepare variance reports.
- Support inventory valuation during month-end closing.
- Prepare cost of goods manufactured (COGM) and cost of goods sold (COGS) analysis.
Cost Optimization & Business Partnering: Drive manufacturing cost efficiency by partnering with production, procurement, and supply chain teams to identify cost reduction opportunities and support data-driven operational and pricing decisions
- Work with production, procurement, and supply chain teams to optimize manufacturing costs.
- Identify cost reduction opportunities in material usage and production efficiency.
- Support new product costing and profitability analysis.
- Provide cost insights for pricing decisions.
- Provide plant management with actionable cost insights.
Compliance & Audit Support: Ensure adherence to accounting policies, internal controls, and regulatory requirements by maintaining accurate cost records, documentation, and providing timely support for internal and external audits
- Ensure compliance with company accounting policies and internal controls.
- Support audit requirements related to inventory and manufacturing costs.
- Maintain documentation for cost assumptions and costing methodology.
- Ensure adherence to standard costing policies.
- Develop dashboards and reports for manufacturing cost monitoring.
- Track KPIs such as cost per unit, material yield, and production efficiency.
Qualifications, Education and Competencies
See all details of the qualifications, competencies and education for this role under the "How to Apply" section below.
Send your CV to: hr@movitproducts.com
Deadline: 20th March 2026
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