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. [Requirements] Qualifications • Experience: 4-5 years of cost accounting in manufacturing; high precision/semiconductor equipment experience is a plus. • Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related field. • Technical skills: Advanced Excel and manufacturing ERP experience (MS Dynamics AX/365 is a plus or SAP, Oracle, Misa, Fast). • Knowledge: VAS, IFRS, GAAP, standard/product costing, inventory/WIP knowledge and management reporting fundamentals. Skills & Competencies • Analytical/quantitative: Strong quantitative skills to interpret operational cost data, trends, and drivers. • Financial analysis: Ability to build clear analyses and recommendations from incomplete or evolving data. • Reporting: Comfortable preparing management reports and presenting findings to cross-functional partners. • Systems/tools: Proficiency with ERP and financial reporting tools; advanced Excel (pivot tables, lookups, modeling). • Attention to detail: High accuracy with large data sets and reconciliations in a manufacturing environment. Self-starting. • Communication: Effective written and verbal communication; active listening and ability to influence. • Collaboration: Strong teamwork and partnering skills across FP&A, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain. Benefit • You will be entitled to 15 working days of annual leave/year • Fixed 13th month salary • Bonus: Quarterly revenue bonus • Work only 2 Saturdays a month • Working location at factory at Nhon Trach 3 Industrial Park, Dong Nai City. • Transportation: Shuttle bus from HCM & Bien Hoa to factory