Manufacturing Finance Manager & Project Costing

Outsourced; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Outsourced is seeking a Finance Manager / Senior Management Accountant to ensure accurate financial information across a manufacturing and project environment. The role blends hands-on transactional work with robust accounting and practical understanding of costing, WIP and milestone billing.

The successful candidate will move between detailed transactional work and month-end processes, with involvement in reconciliations and process improvements across finance and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance or related field; professional qualification preferred but not mandatory with strong experience.
• 8–12 years of finance/accounting experience in manufacturing, engineering or project-based environments.
• Experience with milestone or percentage-of-completion revenue recognition and progress billing.
• Strong end-to-end transactional knowledge across the full lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Own and support the month-end close process, including P&L, balance sheet, cash-flow reporting, journals, reconciliations and variance analysis.
• Support manufacturing, cost and project accounting, including WIP, project/job costing, inventory, standard costing, project profitability and milestone revenue recognition.
• Oversee AP/AR, bank reconciliations, cash flow, working capital, customer invoicing, progress claims, deposits and milestone billing, stepping in to perform detailed tasks directly when required.
• Trace transactions end-to-end across non-integrated systems to reconcile differences and maintain general ledger integrity.
• Identify data-quality issues, process gaps and control weaknesses, and implement ERP, process and workflow improvements; use advanced Excel to manipulate and analyse data from multiple sources.
• Support fixed assets, audit, budgeting and forecasting, while collaborating with finance, project, procurement, engineering, manufacturing and operations teams.

Skills

Manufacturing accounting

Project accounting

Costing

WIP

Advanced Excel

End-to-end transactions

Stakeholder comms

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

CPA/CA/ACCA/CIMA

Tools

ERP systems

MS Excel

Job description

Outsourced is seeking a Finance Manager / Senior Management Accountant to ensure accurate financial information across a manufacturing and project environment. The role blends hands-on transactional work with robust accounting and practical understanding of costing, WIP and milestone billing.

The successful candidate will move between detailed transactional work and month-end processes, with involvement in reconciliations and process improvements across finance and operations teams.