Plant Cost Analyst
Samut Prakan, TH, 10540
Job Overview
Cooperate as a finance business partner with operations department to improve plant contribution and cost controlling. Handle CAPEX spending approval procedure and keep track of CAPEX spending activities across all sites. Upload fixed asset related data to APEX at month end. Control and keep track of fixed asset (AP, CWIP, leases, depreciation, disposal, physical counting).
Job Responsibilities
1. Plant cost and inventory control
- Cooperate with operations department to improve plant cost and inventory control.
- Ensure good practice, provide visibility of plant expense utilization and inventory management to operations via report building.
- Support direct manager in preparing monthly reports on plant costs, waste, and inventory as needed.
- Monitor work orders and look for anomalies or issues in inventory transactions and stock level.
- Identify gaps for improvement.
2. CAPEX spending approval process
- Summarize RFA from sites.
- Verify RFA’s compliance to budget.
- Circulate RFA list to LT for approval according to DOA.
- Respond to questions/ comments from LT if any. If none notify RFA owners to issue PR after receiving approval.
- Recheck and approve PR in QAD.
- Update CAPEX summary file (cash out plan, actual spending, budget remaining).
3. Fixed asset control
- Control and monitor fixed asset related data and reports (AP, new fixed asset registration, CWIP).
- Perform monthly physical count of fixed asset as well as reconciling fixed asset movements.
- Identify opportunities to improve fixed asset utilization.
4. Reporting
- Reconciliation of fixed asset CWIP
- Reconciliation of fixed asset physical count and process write-offs/ disposal of missing assets (every 3 year)
- Upload depreciation report both APEX and local levels
- Upload CAPEX actual spending both APEX and local levels
- Update fixed asset AP report
- Update lease certificate to BG (quarterly)
5. Participation with company standards
- Participate in annual audit processes as assigned by direct supervisor.
- Change and update relevant data on the documents handled within own areas of responsibilities, works as an Auditor, etc.;
- Follow and improve own area of responsibility in accordance with required standards
- All employees must follow EHS policies and procedures or operational standard of ISO9001, ISO14001, OHSAS18001, GMP and HACCP properly and strictly together with participating in activities as assigned by direct supervisor
Qualifications / Requirements:
- Minimum 2 years of experience in accounting functions, preferably in a manufacturing company with MNC environment.
- Interpersonal skills to work with cross functional teams, especially with Operations and Procurement.
- Basic knowledge of accounting standards, preferably on CAPEX, payables, fixed assets.
- Proficiency in using Excel.
- Experience with ERP systems is a plus.
- Experience with manufacturing industry is a plus.
- Communication and collaboration skills are required. Basic English skills both in verbal and writing is a must.
- Thinking logically and be able to identify problem and solutions in day-to-day work.
- Be able to work independently with minimal supervision; eg prioritizing and planning effectively.