Cost Controller

- Review monthly categorizing items (products and services) report to ensure the accuracy.
- Review item setups in Cenium for recording Sales, COGS, Inventory, and Charges correspondingly.
- Ensuring that selling and purchase prices are fully approved and strictly followed.
- Preparing report of price changes monthly.
- Managing and estimating costs: by pricing the direct & indirect materials of providing products/events, as well as consolidating the amounts of actual purchases, assessing the efficiency finally.
- Reviewing selling prices: ensuring that the offered prices are timely adapted with market price variations, raw material shortage, and discounts/promotion. Keep selling prices posted to related departments.
- Verifying purchase prices: updating the price trend by surveying/searching from reliable market sources (internet, malls, supermarkets). Remain acutely aware of market prices that could impact resource costs.
- Reviewing slow-moving/unused/expired items: timely updating the status of inventory to end-users to speed up the inventory rotation. Other issues include the spoiled/broken/mossed inventory.
- Stocktaking on a monthly basis: proving that the G/L inventory accounts are correct.
- Reviewing inventory variances from stock-taking: the loss issues must be acknowledged by warehouse men; the abnormal inventory status in physics should be reflected; mistakes of documents and physical counts should be limited
- Reporting the monthly cost of goods sold: All purchase/transfer orders must be fully posted in the system; inventory adjustments be recorded; the cost margin variation is well-explained.
- Tracking the cost variation: Any reasons that cause high % cost should be pointed out so that the cost should be passed on to consumers or should new vendors be pursued for better prices on materials.
- Work collaboratively with various Department Managers to analyze costs, assess vendors, and consumption to maximize production profitability.
- Safeguards warehouse operations and contents by establishing and monitoring security procedures and protocols.
- Assist management in preparing budget
- Other ad-hoc requirements relating to cost.