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.
Aprašymas
- 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.
Reikalavimai
- 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.
Privalumai
- 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.