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The Cost Accountant will be responsible for managing and controlling product costing, budgeting, inventory valuation, and comprehensive cost analysis across frozen and dehydrated food manufacturing operations, while closely coordinating with production, procurement, quality control, and export teams to ensure accurate costing, margin improvement, financial efficiency in high-volume processing, effective wastage control, optimized conversion costs, sustained profitability, and strong support to management in strategic pricing decisions for both domestic and international markets.
- Develop, maintain, and update standard, actual, and activity-based costing systems for frozen and dehydrated food products.
- Prepare detailed product-wise cost sheets and multi-level Bills of Materials capturing complete manufacturing and supply chain costs.
- Manage end-to-end product costing including raw materials, labor, utilities, processing, packaging, cold storage, logistics, and overheads.
- Conduct batch-wise and process-wise costing analysis across production cycles.
- Perform detailed variance analysis of actual versus standard costs covering materials, yields, labor efficiency, overhead absorption, and logistics.
- Analyze raw material price fluctuations, seasonal procurement impact, and yield shrinkage affecting margins.
- Monitor direct material, direct labour, factory overhead allocation, and cost absorption accuracy.
- Track production efficiency, conversion costs, and cost per unit in high-volume processing environments.
- Monitor and optimize utility costs including electricity, steam, refrigeration, fuel, and water consumption.
- Drive wastage control through yield analysis, scrap monitoring, drip loss control, dehydration shrinkage tracking, and by-product evaluation.
- Identify operational inefficiencies and recommend corrective actions to reduce unfavorable cost variances.
- Oversee accurate inventory valuation of raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods using appropriate methods such as FIFO or weighted average.
- Ensure reconciliation of inventory sub-ledgers with general ledger and conduct periodic stock verification including cold storage audits.
- Monitor slow-moving, obsolete, damaged, or expired inventory and assess financial impact.
- Prepare and support annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and cost projections aligned with production planning.
- Conduct contribution analysis, break-even analysis, and product-wise profitability evaluation.
- Analyze profitability by SKU, batch, customer, and domestic versus export markets.
- Support pricing strategy through cost-plus models, landed cost analysis, and margin impact evaluation for domestic and international sales.
- Provide scenario analysis considering currency fluctuations, freight changes, and commodity price volatility.
- Collaborate with procurement to evaluate supplier pricing, sourcing efficiency, and material cost impact.
- Coordinate with production to validate BOM accuracy, routing, labor productivity, and yield data.
- Work closely with quality control to analyze the cost impact of rejections, reprocessing, and spoilage.
- Partner with export and logistics teams to incorporate freight, cold-chain costs, duties, and compliance expenses into product costing.
- Participate in new product development costing, feasibility studies, and profitability validation.
- Evaluate capital expenditure proposals for processing equipment and cold chain infrastructure with ROI analysis.
- Generate monthly cost MIS reports, dashboards, and trend analysis highlighting risks and margin improvement opportunities.
- Contribute to month-end and year-end closing activities including cost accruals and variance reporting.
- Maintain costing accuracy and data integrity within ERP systems and advanced Excel models.
- Support internal, statutory, and cost audits through proper documentation and variance explanations.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives in cost control systems, reporting automation, and financial efficiency processes.
- Identify and implement cost-saving measures to enhance sustained profitability and operational excellence.
- Advanced expertise in manufacturing cost accounting including standard costing, absorption costing, process costing, and activity-based costing.
- Strong capability in multi-level Bill of Materials preparation, routing validation, and complete cost roll-up management.
- Deep understanding of end-to-end food processing cost structures covering raw materials, labor, utilities, processing, packaging, cold storage, overheads, and logistics.
- Proven experience in frozen and dehydrated product costing including yield management, mass balance calculation, shrinkage control, dehydration loss, drip loss, and seasonal raw material volatility.
- Strong variance analysis capability including material price and usage variance, labor efficiency variance, overhead absorption variance, and yield variance with root cause investigation.
- Expertise in conversion cost analysis including electricity, steam, refrigeration, and fuel consumption monitoring in energy-intensive manufacturing environments.
- Strong margin analysis skills including SKU-wise, customer-wise, and market-wise profitability evaluation for domestic and export markets.
- Proficiency in contribution analysis, break-even analysis, target costing, and strategic pricing support.
- Expertise in export costing and landed cost calculation including FOB, CIF, freight, duties, currency impact, and Incoterms understanding.
- Strong inventory valuation expertise including FIFO, FEFO, weighted average, WIP costing, spoilage handling, obsolescence control, and reconciliation processes.
- Experience in overhead allocation, cost absorption, and internal cost control systems.
- Strong budgeting, forecasting, rolling forecasts, and scenario modeling under commodity price and logistics volatility.
- Advanced financial modeling and data analysis skills for cost projections and profitability improvement.
- Hands-on ERP experience in manufacturing environments including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, or similar systems.
- Advanced MS Excel proficiency including pivot tables, complex formulas, dashboards, Power Query, and automation for MIS reporting.
- Familiarity with data visualization and BI tools for management dashboards and profitability analysis.
- Strong MIS reporting and management presentation skills with ability to explain complex cost data clearly.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with production, procurement, quality control, warehouse, and export teams.
- Good understanding of food manufacturing operations including cold chain economics, perishable inventory handling, and compliance-driven cost impacts.
- Knowledge of audit processes including internal audit, statutory audit, and cost audit requirements.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset focused on cost reduction, waste minimization, and process optimization.
- High attention to detail and numerical accuracy in high-volume production environments.
- Strong communication skills for translating financial insights into actionable business decisions.
- Strong time management skills with ability to manage budgeting cycles, month-end closures, and urgent pricing requirements.
- Continuous improvement mindset with focus on system enhancement, reporting automation, and best-practice cost accounting processes.
Candidates should have a minimum of 4 to 9 years of proven experience in the Costing and Finance function within a Manufacturing / Processing Environment, preferably at Assistant Manager or equivalent level. The candidate must have strong hands-on experience in product costing, manufacturing finance, cost control, variance analysis, budgeting, forecasting, inventory valuation, MIS reporting, and financial controls. Experience in food processing, FMCG, agro-based manufacturing, frozen and dehydrated product units, export-oriented organizations, cold storage and cold chain operations, and inventory-intensive production setups is highly preferred. Exposure to export costing, international trade finance, logistics cost analysis, customs documentation, forex transactions, and large-scale production operations will be considered a strong advantage.
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