Cost Accountant – Global Manufacturing & BOM Optimizer

ARB Corporation; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee product discounts

Career development opportunities

Exposure to global operations

Job summary

ARB Corporation in Kilsyth, Melbourne, invites a Cost Accountant to join its global manufacturing team. You will support manufacturing performance, product profitability and growth across international operations.

Your duties include analysing product costing, maintaining BOM structures, and delivering cost reporting to drive continuous improvement and commercial viability. Experience in manufacturing cost accounting and advanced Excel is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in cost accounting within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of product costing, BOM structures and inventory valuation.
• Experience analysing manufacturing variances and production performance.
• Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, data analysis and reporting.
• Strong problem solving skills with the ability to identify trends and business improvement opportunities.
• Ability to engage and influence stakeholders across multiple business functions.
• Experience with ERP systems, ideally JD Edwards (JDE).
• CA/CPA qualification or working towards qualification is highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and maintain product costs across locally manufactured, imported and sourced product ranges, ensuring accuracy and commercial viability.
• Manufacturing production KPI reporting.
• Assistance in Plant reporting.
• Assisting the business with ad-hoc product cost queries.
• Partner with Engineering and Manufacturing teams to review and optimise BOM structures.
• Liaison with stakeholders to meet reporting deadlines.
• Monthly presentation of proposed changes and project status reporting.
• Other ad-hoc business improvement projects.

Skills

Cost accounting

Product costing

BOM structures

Inventory valuation

Variance analysis

Advanced Excel

Stakeholder engagement

ERP (JD Edwards)

Education

CA/CPA qualified or working towards

Tools

JD Edwards (JDE)

Job description

ARB Corporation in Kilsyth, Melbourne, invites a Cost Accountant to join its global manufacturing team. You will support manufacturing performance, product profitability and growth across international operations.

Your duties include analysing product costing, maintaining BOM structures, and delivering cost reporting to drive continuous improvement and commercial viability. Experience in manufacturing cost accounting and advanced Excel is essential.