Accounting & Finance Manager - Manufacturing (Onsite, Lahore, PKR Salary)

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.
• Develop executive dashboards covering gross margins, WIP value, inventory turnover, cash flow, and job profitability.
• Support founders with data-driven decision-making, rolling forecasts, and annual budgeting aligned with growth plans.
• Ensure compliance with Pakistan tax laws (Sales Tax, Income Tax, Withholding) and statutory audit requirements.
• Liaise with external auditors, tax consultants, and banks, maintaining clean and audit-ready books at all times.
• Lead the finance-side implementation of ERP or ERP-like systems (Odoo, SAP B1, or customized solutions).
• Build interim Google Sheets–based systems where required and ensure seamless integration of production, inventory, and accounting data.
• Design scalable systems capable of supporting multi-location manufacturing operations.