Costing Accountant | Group Finance

• Position: Costing Accountant (Group Finance) • 5 Work Days Per Week • Office Near Tai Seng MRT, Singapore • Medical Benefits Provided • Entitled to Yearly Bonus & Performance Bonus Role Summary • This role owns the full costing lifecycle for finished goods and components sourced from factories and • subcontractors — from standard cost build-up and BOM validation through to landed cost, variance analysis, and margin reporting. • The successful candidate will be the finance business partner to Operations, Procurement, and Product Engineering, ensuring product costs are accurate, transparent, and defensible, and that the Group has real-time visibility of manufacturing cost drivers across 16 legal entities on a single NetSuite ERP backbone. Key Responsibilities Factory & Subcontracting Cost Management • Own end-to-end product costing for all CM- and subcontractor-manufactured SKUs, including camera hardware, accessories, and NVR/hub products. • Build and maintain standard costs (material, labour, overhead, tooling amortisation) at BOM/routing level in • NetSuite; review and approve cost rolls each cycle. • Validate CM/subcontractor quotations against BOM cost breakdowns, labour rates, and process yields; challenge quoted costs with fact-based benchmarking. • Track and reconcile subcontracting fees, processing charges, tooling/mould amortisation, and NRE (non-recurring engineering) charges billed by factories. • Monitor landed cost components — FOB price, freight, duties, insurance — across China, HK, and other sourcing entities. Variance Analysis & Margin Reporting • Perform monthly purchase price variance (PPV), usage variance, and yield/scrap variance analysis by SKU and by factory; investigate and explain root causes with Operations. • Analyse standard-vs-actual cost variances arising from engineering changes (ECN), component substitutions, and FX movement on USD/RMB-denominated purchases. • Prepare product-level and SKU-level gross margin bridges for management review, highlighting cost trend, mix, and pricing impact. • Support new product introduction (NPI) costing — target cost setting, should-cost modelling, and first-article cost validation before mass production. Inventory & Standard Costing Integrity • Maintain integrity of inventory valuation (raw material, WIP, finished goods) across manufacturing and trading entities under group costing policy. • Lead periodic standard cost updates / cost roll cycles and coordinate cut-over with Supply Chain to avoid valuation distortions. • Review slow-moving / excess & obsolete (E&O) inventory provisioning with Operations and recommend provisioning adjustments. • Support physical stock counts and cycle counts at factory / 3PL warehouse locations; reconcile book-to-physical variances. Business Partnering & Controls • Act as finance business partner to Operations, Procurement, and Product Engineering on cost-down initiatives, factory consolidation, and dual-sourcing decisions. • Evaluate cost impact of factory transfers, new CM onboarding, and subcontractor contract renegotiations; provide finance sign-off on commercial terms. • Design and enforce internal controls over CM/subcontractor billing, tooling asset capitalisation, and consignment inventory arrangements. • Support transfer pricing documentation for intercompany manufacturing and processing fee arrangements with the tax/TP team. Month-End Close & Reporting • Prepare costing-related month-end journal entries: cost roll adjustments, PPV/variance postings, tooling amortisation, and provision true-ups. • Deliver monthly costing packs to Group Finance covering cost trends, variance summary, and factory scorecards. • Support budget and forecast cycles with standard cost assumptions, factory capacity/utilisation inputs, and costdown targets. • Liaise with external auditors on inventory valuation, cost accounting policy, and manufacturing-related audit queries. KEY REQUIREMENTS Qualifications & Experience • ACCA (part- or fully-qualified) or Diploma in Accounting / Finance; degree holders also welcome. • Minimum 6–8 years' relevant experience in cost accounting / manufacturing finance, with at least 3 years in a hardware / electronics manufacturing or contract manufacturing environment. • Direct experience working with oversea -based contract manufacturers and subcontractors is essential. • Prior exposure to consumer electronics, IoT hardware, or similar high-mix, short-lifecycle product environments is strongly preferred. • Experience operating in a multi-entity, multi-currency group structure (SG / HK/ China ideally). Technical & Systems Skills • Strong hands-on experience with ERP-based costing modules; NetSuite experience strongly preferred. • Advanced Excel skills (BOM cost modelling, variance analysis, should-cost templates). • Working knowledge of BOM/routing structures, engineering change management (ECN), and manufacturing process flows. • Familiarity with transfer pricing concepts for intercompany manufacturing/processing arrangements is an advantage.