Job Description

Position: Financial Analyst (Manufacturing Cost Analyst)

This role can report to the Head of Finance while working very closely with Operations, QA, and Supply Chain.

Looking for a specialist who can bridge Operations and Finance to ensure product costing accurately reflects factory realities.

The role is focused on BOMs, manufacturing costs, yields, labor standards, and product margins,

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain BOM (Bill of Materials) accuracy.
• Validate raw material consumption against BOM standards.
• Analyze manufacturing yields, wastage, shrinkage, and processing losses.
• Establish and review labor and man-hour standards.
• Review packaging and conversion costs.
• Develop and maintain standard product costing models.
• Analyze product margins and identify cost drivers.
• Review machine utilization and manufacturing efficiency.
• Work closely with Production, QA, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Finance.
• Support inventory reconciliation, costing variances, and stock write-off analysis.

Requirements

• Experience in food manufacturing, FMCG, consumer goods, or industrial manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of BOM structures and manufacturing processes.
• Experience with standard costing and cost accounting.
• Understands raw material yields, labor costing, overhead allocation, and production efficiencies.
• Able to challenge assumptions and verify whether BOMs reflect actual production practices.
• Familiar with ERP systems (SAP preferred).
• Strong Excel and analytical skills.

Preferred Experience

• Previous experience in food manufacturing, FMCG, consumer products, or another production-based environment.
• Practical experience in product costing, margin analysis, inventory control, and manufacturing performance reporting.
• Exposure to process improvement, cost optimisation, or new product costing projects.

The successful candidate should be able to:

• Walk through a manufacturing process and understand how a product is made.
• Validate whether BOM quantities, yields, and labor assumptions are realistic.
• Quantify the impact of recipe, packaging, or process changes on product cost and margin.
• Ensure product costing and profitability reporting are based on accurate operational data.

Others

Basic + AWS

Mon- Fri 9am-6pm

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We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates would be notified.

KINGFISHER RECRUITMENT (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.

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