Finance Analyst III (Plant Operations)

WhiteCrow Research; Penaga; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

WhiteCrow Research Pvt. Ltd. in Malaysia seeks a Finance Analyst III (Plant Operations) to support planning, budgeting, and cost management for manufacturing.

You will contribute to annual budgets, monthly forecasts, and variance analysis, while ensuring compliance with corporate policies and asset management practices. The role requires manufacturing costing expertise, SAP experience, and strong English and Mandarin language skills, with a focus on producing accurate financial reporting and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, taxation, or related field.
• 7–10 years of experience in Finance; managerial position preferred.
• Experience costing of manufacturing and improving manufacturing variances.

Responsibilities

• Planning and budgeting: assist with annual budget and monthly forecast; track weekly forecast variances and produce timely reports.
• Inventory risk tracking/analysis: prepare inventory reserves; highlight risks and opportunities; monitor physical counts; ensure policy compliance.
• Cost accounting: prepare data for material masters, routings and standard costs; book month-end JEs; analyze PPV; analyze material usage; prepare production scrap reports.
• FA accounting: maintain fixed asset policy familiarity; prepare FA management reports; lead fixed asset counts; issue asset tags; prepare intercompany fixed asset transfer data.
• Follow-up on monthly Open PO, IO and CIP tracking reports; review CERs and monitor budget control through reporting and reviews.

Skills

English fluency

Mandarin proficiency

Manufacturing costing

Cost variance analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/taxation or related

Tools

SAP

Job description

About WhiteCrow

We are global talent research, insight and pipelining specialists with offices in the UK, USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Dubai, and India. Our international reach has helped us to understand and penetrate specialist markets at a global level. In addition to this, our service is also extended to complement our client’s in-house research.

About our client

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

As a Finance Analyst III (Plant Operations), you will be responsible for...

Planning and Budgeting:

• Assisting with annual budget preparation.
• Assisting with monthly forecast preparation.
• Tracking weekly forecast variances to provide accurate and timely reports.

Inventory Risk Tracking/Analysis:

• Preparing inventory reserves.
• Highlighting inventory risks and opportunities on a monthly basis.
• Monitoring physical inventory counts.
• Ensuring compliance with corporate policies and risk control requirements.

Cost Accounting:

• Preparing data for material masters, routings, and standard costs.
• Booking month-end journal entries (JEs).
• Managing and analyzing the PPV program.
• Analyzing material usage.
• Preparing production scrap reports.

FA Accounting:

• Maintaining familiarity with the Capital Assets Policy and ensuring compliance with corporate and local policies.
• Preparing fixed asset (FA) management reports covering acquisitions, disposals, transfers, and other activities, and leading physical fixed asset counts.
• Issuing asset tags to the departments responsible for the assets.
• Preparing intercompany fixed asset transfer data and following up on financial postings.
• Following up on monthly Open PO, IO, and CIP tracking reports.
• Reviewing CERs and monitoring budget control through reporting and management reviews.

What you already have...

• At least bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/taxation or related.
• Over 7-10 years working experience in Finance, costing managerial position is preferred
• Good knowledge and experience in costing of manufacturing. Understand how to manage
• and improve Mfg. variance.
• Good knowledge and experience in SAP.
• Fluent English Mandarin, both written and oral (Added Advantage)
• Strong will to learn and develop the skills.