Cost Accounting Finance Analyst
Agilent Technologies LDA Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
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Job summary
Agilent Technologies LDA Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. seeks a senior cost accounting professional to support global cost accounting, variance analysis, and digital enablement across WWCA.
You will influence reporting quality, controls, and process efficiency using SAP, Power BI, Power Automate, and advanced Excel while ensuring US GAAP and SOX compliance. The role emphasizes partnering with global stakeholders, coaching junior analysts, and leading automation and data analytics initiatives to scale
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Information Systems, Statistics, or related fields.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in cost accounting, finance operations, or financial analysis in MNCs, or shared services, or public accounting with cost/manufacturing exposure.
- Strong hands-on ERP experience (preferably SAP) including inventory, costing, finance, and reporting modules.
Responsibilities
- Own complex cost and inventory accounting activities with minimal supervision.
- Perform advanced variance analysis, root‑cause investigation, and business impact assessment.
- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for cost accounting processes and policies.
- Ensure strong compliance with US GAAP, SOX, and Agilent internal controls, including audit support.
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Job description
This role is a senior individual contributor position within the Worldwide Cost Accounting (WWCA) organization. The incumbent will serve as a senior finance, cost accounting, and digital enablement partner, providing end-to-end cost accounting support, advanced variance analysis, and actionable insights to global stakeholders.
The role places strong emphasis on the use of digital applications, data analytics, automation, ERP tools, and emerging technologies to enhance reporting quality, strengthen controls, improve process efficiency, and support scalable finance transformation.
- Own complex cost and inventory accounting activities with minimal supervision.
- Perform advanced variance analysis, root‑cause investigation, and business impact assessment.
- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for cost accounting processes and policies.
- Ensure strong compliance with US GAAP, SOX, and Agilent internal controls, including audit support.
- Resolve non‑routine, ambiguous accounting and data issues.
- Assess multiple solution paths and recommend the most effective business outcome.
- Anticipate downstream impacts on financial reporting, controls, and operations.
- Act as a trusted finance partner to global stakeholders.
- Translate financial and data insights into clear, decision‑ready recommendations.
- Provide guidance, coaching, and informal leadership to junior analysts.
- Identify, design, and lead process improvements across cost accounting, inventory accounting, reporting, and reconciliation workflows.
- Apply digital tools and automation solutions to improve reporting speed, data accuracy, control effectiveness, and user experience.
- Develop, enhance, or support digital applications such as Power BI dashboards, Power Automate workflows, advanced Excel models, MS Access tools, and other finance automation solutions.
- Partner with IT, finance, and business teams to translate process requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Promote adoption of digital tools by documenting solutions, training users, and supporting change management.
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Information Systems, Statistics, or related fields.
- 8 years of relevant experience in cost accounting, finance operations, or financial analysis, preferably in:
- Multinational corporations (MNCs), or
- Shared service / global business services environments, or
- Public accounting with strong cost or manufacturing exposure.
- Proven experience handling complex inventory and cost accounting topics with minimal supervision.
- Strong hands‑on experience with ERP systems, preferably SAP, including inventory, costing, finance, and reporting modules.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications and finance productivity tools, including Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot, SharePoint, Teams, and Copilot-enabled ways of working where applicable.
- Practical experience building or supporting digital reporting and automation solutions using tools such as Power BI, Power Automate, MS Access, VBA, SQL, or Python.
- Ability to work with large and complex datasets, perform data validation, identify trends, and translate data into clear business insights.
- Good knowledge of cost accounting principles, inventory accounting, standard costing, and variance analysis.
- Strong interest in continuous learning and applying emerging digital tools to improve finance operations, controls, and decision support.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving mindset.
- High attention to detail with the ability to see the “big picture”.
- Effective communication skills (written and verbal English).
- Proactive, self‑driven, and comfortable operating in a global, fast‑paced environment.
- Digital‑first mindset with curiosity to explore, adopt, and scale new applications, automation solutions, and technical tools.
Perks and benefits Medical Education support Dental Sports (e.g. Gym) Parking Vision Executive Health Screening, Marriage & New Born Gi
"Premier Laboratory Partner for a Better World"
This is an exciting time. You are journeying into a world of opportunities. What if you could advance your career with a company that makes the world a better place? A company that thrives on innovative ideas, attracts the best and brightest talent, and helps them grow. We are Agilent Technologies – the Premier Laboratory Partner for a Better World!
Agilent is a leader in life sciences, diagnostics and applied markets. Headquartered in Santa Clara, USA, the company provides laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications and expertise, enabling customers to gain the insights they seek. Agilent's expertise and trusted collaboration give them the highest confidence in our solutions.
Agilent focuses its expertise on six key markets, where we help our customers achieve their goals:
Food: Agilent helps ensure that our global food supply is free of contaminants—whether chemical, viral, bacterial or microbiological. Our customers include government regulators and labs that control food safety, as well as private companies that produce, package and sell food to the public.
Environmental and Forensics: From pesticides to pharmaceutical residues to trace metals, we provide fast, accurate and sensitive methods for monitoring contaminants affecting quality of life. Agilent solutions also play an important role in law enforcement by providing robust tools and instruments to analyze and verify evidence at trial, and keeping the world’s top-performing athletes honest.
Pharmaceutical: Agilent has one of the broadest solutions portfolios of any company serving the pharmaceutical industry. Our solutions provide precise answers for every segment of the pharmaceutical industry, from disease research and drug discovery to drug development, manufacturing and quality control. The start‑to‑finish solution set means customers can get products to market faster. Customers trust us to help them test the purity of their therapeutics. Agilent also ensures that their instruments and processes conform to the highest compliance regulations.
Diagnostics: Agilent gives doctors a head start in the fight against cancer and other diseases. Our solutions help pathology laboratories deliver fast, accurate information to the doctors, hospitals and medical centers they serve. We help medical professionals make more accurate diagnoses so patients can receive the most effective therapies.
Chemical and Energy: The world runs on energy, and energy companies need to locate, extract and refine fuels efficiently and cost‑effectively. Our solutions help customers maximize their production and predict failures in their refineries before they happen. Agilent also helps energy researchers investigate biofuels, renewable fuels and other forms of alternate energy.
Research: Most life sciences and diagnostics research is done at top‑tier universities, with funding from governments around the world. Agilent is helping these researchers learn more about cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, autism and other ailments. Our instruments, software and sample preparation solutions help scientists conduct faster, more accurate research.
"Premier Laboratory Partner for a Better World"
This is an exciting time. You are journeying into a world of opportunities. What if you could advance your career with a company that makes the world a better place? A company that thrives on innovative ideas, attracts the best and brightest talent, and helps them grow. We are Agilent Technologies – the Premier Laboratory Partner for a Better World!
Agilent is a leader in life sciences, diagnostics and applied markets. Headquartered in Santa Clara, USA, the company provides laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications and expertise, enabling customers to gain the insights they seek. Agilent's expertise and trusted collaboration give them the highest confidence in our solutions.
Agilent focuses its expertise on six key markets, where we help our customers achieve their goals:
Food: Agilent helps ensure that our global food supply is free of contaminants—whether chemical, viral, bacterial or microbiological. Our customers include government regulators and labs that control food safety, as well as private companies that produce, package and sell food to the public.
Environmental and Forensics: From pesticides to pharmaceutical residues to trace metals, we provide fast, accurate and sensitive methods for monitoring contaminants affecting quality of life. Agilent solutions also play an important role in law enforcement by providing robust tools and instruments to analyze and verify evidence at trial, and keeping the world’s top‑performing athletes honest.
Pharmaceutical: Agilent has one of the broadest solutions portfolios of any company serving the pharmaceutical industry. Our solutions provide precise answers for every segment of the pharmaceutical industry, from disease research and drug discovery to drug development, manufacturing and quality control. The start‑to‑finish solution set means customers can get products to market faster. Customers trust us to help them test the purity of their therapeutics. Agilent also ensures that their instruments and processes conform to the highest compliance regulations.
Diagnostics: Agilent gives doctors a head start in the fight against cancer and other diseases. Our solutions help pathology laboratories deliver fast, accurate information to the doctors, hospitals and medical centers they serve. We help medical professionals make more accurate diagnoses so patients can receive the most effective therapies.
Chemical and Energy: The world runs on energy, and energy companies need to locate, extract and refine fuels efficiently and cost‑effectively. Our solutions help customers maximize their production and predict failures in their refineries before they happen. Agilent also helps energy researchers investigate biofuels, renewable fuels and other forms of alternate energy.
Research: Most life sciences and diagnostics research is done at top‑tier universities, with funding from governments around the world. Agilent is helping these researchers learn more about cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, autism and other ailments. Our instruments, software and sample preparation solutions help scientists conduct faster, more accurate research.
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