长沙招聘

BASIC FUNCTION

Lead the Shanghai HQ costing team (4 staff) to perform manufacturing and product costing related budgeting, standard cost setting, monthly variance reporting and KPI tracking, cost reduction monitoring, monthly forecast and result explanation.

Work closely with 9 plants' finance team and costing staff to understand the plant operating issues, perform monthly result review, and come up with action items to correct issues, track and monitor to make sure we meet our budget and cost reduction target. Review with top management on the result and issue on a timely basis.

Act as centralized expertise to lead standard cost accuracy improvement, report and analysis standardization, system automation and costing practice standardization according to Kohler corporate requirement.


SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Deliver monthly financial result reports, including manufacturing variances, commodity tracking, KPI and monthly variance forecast with support from plant finance managers. Focus on report accuracy and consistency to ensure standardization among all plants.

2. Monthly review with each plant finance manager and procurement team on the manufacturing variance results, PPV, inventory, DPO, commodity price trends, cost spending against budget, cost reduction projects, KPI, operating issues and ensure the reports are filled correctly with proper explanation written. After each review, track the issues and action items on a regular basis according to the agreed deadlines.

3. Lead the manufacturing variance rolling forecast on a monthly basis and improve the accuracy.

4. Review with top management on a timely basis on the monthly information collected and issue/action list. Provide insights on the plant operations and variance results. Escalate to get support to resolve issues on time.

5. Interact with finance managers on a daily basis for ad hoc cost information requests.

6. Lead and support the plant finance teams on the preparation of annual manufacturing cost budgeting, report package input and standard cost preparation, ensure all cost changes can be properly justified with supporting and explainable.

7. Support marketing and financial planning team on annual unit shipment and pricing preparation.

8. Work closely with Shanghai centralized IT team to support plant finance managers on SAP system maintenance, improvement and implementation.

9. Enforce compliance on existing corporate and group accounting policies, guidelines, and procedures. Share knowledge and practices with other plants (including plants outside China) and recommend improvements.

10. Benchmark among internal plants and external competitors on product cost and efficiency related metrics.

11. Support engineering team to develop BOM / process re-engineering and cost saving projects. Track result to ensure we meet cost reduction targets.

12. Support and align with capital analyst on production capacity calculation, machine and equipment purchase and expansion needs.

13. Lead, train and coach the centralized costing team based in Shanghai.


RELATIONSHIP AND CONTACTS

Supervisory Relationship:
1. Direct reports to Finance Director - Kohler China, dotted line reports to Manager - Costing
2. Work closely with Finance Managers of all plants

Organizational Relationship:
- Frequent contact with:
1. General ledger, financial reporting and planning teams,
2. Commercial finance team,
3. Plant management, include finance, production, engineering and procurement,
4. Supply Chain / Procurement,
5. Marketing,
6. Engineering,
7. Facility engineering group.

- Occasional contact with:
1. Kohler AP accounting,
2. Kohler US,
3. Kohler EU,
4. Kohler Corporate.

External Business Relationship:

1. Contact local SAIC and tax bureaus as requested.
2. Attends pertinent trainings with regard to job responsibilities and latest GAAP.


EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

1. Bachelors Degree in Accounting and Finance required,
2. Experience with financial reporting under both US and China GAAP,
3. Proficiency in English required
4. Willing to travel for up to 40% of time, Based in Shanghai.
5. Team management/leadership skill experience.
6. 8 yr costing+general ledger experience, at least 4 years costing experience in a sizable manufacturing plant of repetitive manufacturing process and labor intensive nature.
7. Expert in costing budget planning, departmental expense control and standard cost calculation with deep understanding in BOM, routing and activity rate settings.
8. Experience in production capacity planning, capital spending planning/control, manpower planning and productivity tracking.
9. Detail manufacturing variance analysis and control experience, able to communicate effectively with plant management on PPV, material usage, variable/fixed costs price and usage variances issues and define actions together and follow up on execution.
10. Strong SAP MM, PP, FICO and product costing experience, understand the system table structure and able to communicate effectively with IT team to resolve system issues, extract data and continuous improvement. Strong excel/database skills for automation.
11. Good team player with effective communication skill and proven time management and multi tasking capability. Self motivated, quick learner, able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.


SKILL SET REQUIREMENTS

1. Committed to costing role,
2. Power Excel user,
3. Self-starter,
4. Independent thinker,
5. Team-worker.
6. Good English skills

科勒公司创立于1873年，是世界领先的卫浴及厨具设备制造商。不论在技术、工艺及款式上，科勒都为家居带来无可比拟的创意和美感。科勒在全球拥有55多家制造工厂，超过33,000名员工。在中国，科勒建立了9家工厂，并在北京、广州、成都、武汉、杭州、南京、深圳、香港设有销售办事处。为满足业务拓展需要，科勒（中国）投资有限公司诚聘人员，公司将提供具有挑战性的工作环境以及良好的培训和发展机会。

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