Cost & Finance Accountant

Key Responsibilities
Plant Costing & Manufacturing Accounting
Develop and maintain standard costing systems to ensure product costing accuracy across all stock-keeping units.
Review and analyze standard versus actual manufacturing costs, Bill of Materials (BOM), material consumption, labor rates, and overhead allocations.
Monitor production variances, work-in-progress (WIP), inventory valuation, scrap, wastage, and write-offs.
Supervise periodic physical inventory counts, cycle counts, and stock reconciliations.
Conduct Cost-Volume-Profit and gross margin analyses by product line to support management pricing decisions.
Full-Set Financial Management & Operations
Manage the complete set of accounts, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Fixed Assets.
Lead month-end and year-end closing activities, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and trial balance reviews.
Prepare monthly management accounts, profit and loss statements, and supporting schedules.
Supervise daily accounts payable and accounts receivable processes, supplier payment schedules, and customer collection aging.
Manage weekly and monthly cash flow forecasting, bank reconciliations, banking facilities, and trade financing (LC, BG, BA).
Compliance, Audit & Systems
Ensure timely corporate tax estimates (CP204) and submission of statutory returns, including SST and Customs documentation (Lampiran M).
Support Malaysia e-Invoice / MyInvois implementation, compliance, and reconciliations.
Coordinate external statutory audit processes, audit schedules, and implementation of audit recommendations.
Manage day-to-day operations in SAP Business One across Finance, Costing, MM, and Production modules.
Supervise, guide, and train the on-site accounts team while improving internal control standard operating procedures.

Job Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
Minimum 5 years of accounting experience in a manufacturing environment or related, with strong costing experience.
Hands-on SAP Business One experience, preferably in Finance, Costing, Inventory and MM modules.
Strong knowledge of standard costing, BOM, inventory control and manufacturing variance analysis.
Experience in full-set accounts, month-end closing and financial reporting.
Knowledge of Malaysian taxation, SST and statutory audit.
Proficient in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
ACCA, CMA or equivalent professional qualification is an advantage.

Skills: Cost Accounting, SAP Business One, Financial Accounting, Inventory Management, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Microsoft Excel, Financial Analysis