Costing & Margin Optimization Manager

DWP Group; Lahore; On-site; PKR 3,200,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

DWP Group in Lahore, Pakistan seeks an experienced Cost Control Manager to lead and standardize costing frameworks across product, process, batch, and landed costs. You will deliver accurate margin analyses, strengthen controls, and provide insights for pricing, budgeting, profitability, and strategic decisions.

Key duties include owning the costing framework, reviewing variances, coordinating with FP&A, and developing dashboards to support the Group Financial Controller.

Qualifications

• ACMA, CA Finalist, ACCA or equivalent professional qualification.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in costing, management accounting, FP&A, or financial analysis, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong experience in product costing, standard/actual costing, landed costing, variance analysis, inventory valuation, and profitability analysis.
• Good understanding of BOMs, production processes, overhead allocation, cost centers, and manufacturing MIS.
• Experience working with ERP systems; Odoo experience will be an advantage.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial reporting/dashboarding.

Responsibilities

• Own and standardize the overall costing framework, policies, methodologies, allocation bases, and reporting formats for factory operations.
• Review and approve product, model-wise, batch, process, and landed-cost calculations prepared by the factory costing team.
• Review actual vs. standard/estimated cost variances and investigate significant deviations in material, labor, overhead, consumption, wastage, and production efficiency.
• Monitor product-wise, model-wise, and channel-wise gross margins and profitability.
• Review factory MIS covering material consumption, production efficiency, inventory movement, and cost trends.
• Ensure costing of raw materials, parts, WIP, and finished goods is properly reconciled with financial records.
• Coordinate with Group FP&A on budgets, forecasts, pricing, projections, and profitability analysis.
• Review inventory valuation, slow-moving and obsolete stock, and NRV-related matters.
• Develop costing dashboards and management reports for the Group Financial Controller.
• Review and approve costing master data, BOM assumptions, cost centers, and allocation logic.
• Coordinate with the ERP/Odoo project team to ensure approved costing methodologies and controls are accurately incorporated into the system.
• Ensure appropriate costing controls and segregation between factory-level preparation and Head Office review.
• Conduct periodic factory visits to review costing procedures, controls, and compliance.
• Identify cost optimization opportunities and challenge abnormal costs, variances, and costing assumptions.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial reporting

Education

ACMA / CA Finalist / ACCA or equivalent

Tools

ERP systems (Odoo)

Job description

DWP Group in Lahore, Pakistan seeks an experienced Cost Control Manager to lead and standardize costing frameworks across product, process, batch, and landed costs. You will deliver accurate margin analyses, strengthen controls, and provide insights for pricing, budgeting, profitability, and strategic decisions.

Key duties include owning the costing framework, reviewing variances, coordinating with FP&A, and developing dashboards to support the Group Financial Controller.