Assistant Manager - Cost Accounting solutions

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add an Assistant Manager - Cost Accounting solutions based in Chennai Location.

What a typical day looks like:

• Lead a team of 10-15 cost accountants along with Leads towards driving results.
• Conduct monthly performance review calls with controllers
• Conversant with the revenue recognition standards and accordingly, recognize/ de-recognize revenue as per revenue accounting policy
• Educate the team members on finance updates & accounting policies through class room sessions
• Conversant with SOX compliances and checks - Monitor SOX checks for a site & to report them
• Drive & lead projects at department level
• Set review calls and meetings with site on improving the cost accounting metrics
• Review and conduct audits on SOPs and validation check lists in reports
• Review and approve all the journal entries posted by team members & make sure proper documentation as per SOX requirement is always made available
• Support internal and statutory audit on their requirement
• Monitor the inventory reconciliation for all sites and identify the root cause for the difference and to fix the issues in mapping
• Initiate trainings for new joiners in team through leads
• Maintain minimum attrition in team & timely recognize through rewards & recognition.
• Initiating calls with Regional finance Directors and controllers to implement standardization across regions & work towards activity penetrations
• Work on presentations & reports including on regional performance on a quarterly basis to top management
• Work load balancing for the team to meet timely deadlines during month ends
• Day to day analytics to help management to take timely decisions
• Business acumen to understand customer business & improve the VOC

• B.com/BBA (Finance)/MCOM/MBA (Finance) /with CA/CWA/any other equivalent professional qualification with 7+ years of work experience
• MS office
• Good knowledge in accounting principles
• Understand & interpret business numbers

• Health Insurance
• PTO

Flex is the manufacturing partner of choice that helps a diverse customer base design and build products that improve the world. Through the collective strength of a global workforce across 30 countries and responsible, sustainable operations, we deliver technology innovation, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions to various industries and end markets