Accounting & Finance Manager - Manufacturing (Onsite, Lahore, PKR Salary)
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Requirements:
8+ years of manufacturing accounting experience, preferably in job-based industries (furniture, wood, metal, textile, or similar).
Senior, strategic, operations-integrated finance leadership role; not a transactional bookkeeping position and not limited to tax or statutory compliance.
Responsible for building, owning, and scaling manufacturing finance systems that drive cost transparency, operational discipline, and sustainable performance.
Proven track record of designing and implementing costing, inventory, and reporting systems from scratch.
Hands-on experience working closely with production, stores, and procurement teams.
Strong command of cost accounting, management accounting, inventory accounting, and WIP accounting.
Hands-on experience with ERP systems and advanced Excel / Google Sheets.
Ability to design practical, factory-level financial systems rather than theoretical models.
Highly process-driven with strong attention to detail and structure.
Comfortable spending time on the factory floor to understand operations.
Strong communicator capable of training and aligning non-finance teams.
Ownership mindset with long-term responsibility for systems and controls.
Responsibilities:
Design and implement job-wise and product-wise costing systems, including BOM-based costing for bespoke furniture.
Establish standard vs. actual cost variance analysis and track labor, overheads, wastage, and rework costs.
Deliver margin analysis by product, client, project, and sales channel.
Implement robust controls for raw material intake, store issuance, WIP tracking, and finished goods valuation.
Define and enforce inventory valuation methodologies (FIFO / Weighted Average, where applicable).
Ensure physical vs. book inventory reconciliation and partner with production and stores teams to maintain discipline.
Design end-to-end accounting and internal control processes aligned with the manufacturing lifecycle (Procurement Stores Production QA Dispatch Invoicing).
Implement approval matrices, financial authority limits, and SOPs for POs, GRNs, store issues, production completion, invoicing, and collections.
Identify and eliminate financial leakages, inefficiencies, and undocumented processes.
Prepare monthly management accounts focused on operational insights.