Cost Accountant

Reports To: Accounting Manager
Salary up to 32 million/month
Job Summary
MDC Precision Viet Nam is seeking a Cost Accountant with 4-5 years of manufacturing experience to support inventory valuation, operational cost data analysis, standard costing, and margin analytics for high-precision vacuum components. Reporting to the AM, you will deliver cost and profitability insights for management reporting, forecasting, and operational decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
• Operational/Product cost analysis:
- Collect and analyze product cost data (materials, labor, overhead, freight/shipping) to improve cost visibility and margin performance.
- Daily check quote/sale order of selling price provided by sale team, release new items and input selling price into the system for those items in approved quote/sale order of selling price.
- Check oversize cost of raw material which is proposed to use by planning. If the cost is charged to customers, follow up to ensure the cost is fully collected.
- Follow up the returned goods as well as written off or scrap goods/inventory.
- Check compensated goods proposed by sale team before sending them to AM for approval. Send approved documents to relating departments as well as filing it in finance's document.
- Check cost of sample goods, calculation compensation from suppliers (if have).
- Monthly run cost rolling for finished goods and prepares relating reports. Run cost of goods sold for monthly financial report preparation.
- Monthly inventory physical count to check sample rolling to ensure reconciliation between physical and accounting booking to solve the discrepancy
- Verify data for business excellence (BE) project monthly
• Cost standards:
- Set, maintain, and roll standard costs for manufactured goods; develop and analyze standards rate (materials, labor, overhead, freight/shipping) and key cost drivers.
- Determine cost structure, work center, variable and fixed cost and separate var/fix cost in product cost/rates.
- BOM & routers: Partner with Engineering to maintain BOMs/routers that support accurate product costing.
- Maintain costing master data to ensure accurately cycle cost allocation to products wise.
- Verify and control ensure accurately monthly inventory costing.
- Guiding & issuing necessary work instructions to book accurately production expenditure to Cost Centre, work centre and general ledger.
• Variance reporting:
- Analyze and explain PPV, labor, and overhead variances, capacity utilization; recommend actions to reduce cost and waste.
- Partnership with operation departments to investigate root cause and driving corrective action.
• Reconciliations: Perform month-end inventory/WIP and cost account reconciliations; support cycle counts and inventory accuracy.
• FP&A partnership: Provide margin and job-level profitability insights for management reporting; support forecast and annual planning inputs.
• CVP & decision support: Perform cost-volume-profit (breakeven) and make-vs-buy analyses to support pricing, capacity, and sourcing decisions.
• Capital expenditures: Support/validate/analyze manufacturing related CAPEX applications regarding payback.
• Estimation/Order backlog review: Liase with Estimation team regarding sales related estimates and validate cost assessment (pre-calculation) in order backlog.
• Other report/responsibilities: perform other related duties as assigned by AM.