Factory Cost Controller – Cable Manufacturing

Dubai Cable Company - Ducab; Dubai; On-site; AED 223,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

Dubai Cable Company - Ducab invites applications for a Factory Controller who will safeguard product costing and BOM accuracy across plants, leading variance analysis and partnering with operations on consumption control, maintenance costs and shop-floor reporting.

This role requires strong knowledge of standard/product costing, SAP/ERP experience, and capability to drive cost transparency and capital expenditure evaluation across cable manufacturing processes.

Qualifications

• CMA (US) / ICWA (India) / CIMA qualified, or an equivalent professional cost & management accounting qualification.
• Approximately 4–7 years cost accounting experience, preferably in cable, wire or metals manufacturing, or another process / discrete manufacturing environment.
• Strong working knowledge of standard costing, product costing and variance analysis in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and validate BOMs across the full process flow and ensure accurate reflection of metal content, materials, and costings.
• Evaluate and monitor routings and work-centre data, including standard and actual times, and quantify cost impact of variances.
• Reconcile actual material issued/consumed against standard BOM consumption; monitor yield and scrap.
• Ensure timely SAP/ERP shop-floor reporting, production confirmations, and period close activities.
• Analyze maintenance orders by work centre and equipment; distinguish capex from repair costs and drive cost control.
• Support month-end close, inventory valuation, and COGS analysis; safeguard inventory accuracy.
• Act as finance business partner to plant management, develop capex business cases and benefits tracking.
• Conduct time-and-motion studies to validate standard routing times and drive productivity improvements.
• Evaluate capacity planning and overall equipment effectiveness to optimise plant performance.

Skills

Cost accounting

Variance analysis

Finance partnering

Education

CMA/ICWA/CIMA qualified

Tools

SAP CO

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Dubai Cable Company - Ducab invites applications for a Factory Controller who will safeguard product costing and BOM accuracy across plants, leading variance analysis and partnering with operations on consumption control, maintenance costs and shop-floor reporting.

This role requires strong knowledge of standard/product costing, SAP/ERP experience, and capability to drive cost transparency and capital expenditure evaluation across cable manufacturing processes.