Kongsberg Automotive
Kongsberg Automotive
5,001 – 10,000 Employees
AutomotiveEnterpriseManufacturing
Kongsberg Automotive manufactures automotive components for major vehicle makers. The company focuses on engineering solutions for the automotive industry and hires across production, engineering, and management roles.

Cost Analysis Accountant – Kongsberg Automotive, Wuxi

Analyze manufacturing costs, budgets, variances, and margins for Kongsberg Automotive’s sustainable mobility products in Wuxi.

Description

  • Maintain standard costs and analyze costs across the production process.
  • Investigate monthly differences between standard and actual costs, including material prices and quantities, labor efficiency, manufacturing overhead, scrap, and work in progress.
  • Find the causes of cost overruns and unusual losses.
  • Prepare analysis reports and support operational improvements.
  • Help prepare annual budgets for production costs, manufacturing overhead, and labor.
  • Prepare monthly rolling forecasts for costs, product unit costs, and gross margins.
  • Contribute cost analysis to pricing, capacity planning, and annual business targets.
  • Review production records, maintain cost ledgers, and assist with month-end closing.
  • Analyze gross margins by product, customer, and work order.
  • Monitor changes in profitability, reasons for losses, and unusual process losses.
  • Prepare monthly cost analysis reports and review cost reduction results.
  • Assist management with cost optimization initiatives.
  • Support quarterly and annual audits, tax inspections, and financial consolidation across factories.
  • Prepare cost ledgers, budget data, and variance records to support compliance and traceable data.
  • Report to the Finance Manager.

Requirements

  • College degree or higher in finance, accounting, or auditing.
  • A junior or intermediate accounting certificate is preferred.
  • More than three years of manufacturing cost accounting experience.
  • Experience with standard costing systems, bill of materials calculations, rate allocation, and variance analysis.
  • Experience preparing annual cost budgets, monthly rolling forecasts, and gross margin calculations.
  • Proficiency with ERP systems; SAP is preferred.
  • Strong Excel skills, including data modeling, PivotTables, and advanced functions.
  • Familiarity with manufacturing workflows, work order management, scrap and rework processes, and capacity allocation.
  • Strong logical reasoning and sensitivity to data.
  • Ability to identify cost anomalies and produce professional analysis.
  • Experience in a multi-factory environment is highly preferred.
  • Integrity, accountability, creativity, and strong teamwork skills.

Benefits

  • A workplace grounded in mutual respect.
  • Ongoing opportunities to learn.
  • Collaboration across teams and borders.
  • A strong, collaborative team environment.
  • An opportunity to have your ideas valued and your contributions make a difference.

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