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.