Junior Financial Analyst – Cost Accounting
Flex — Chennai, Tamil Nadu
₹4–10 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · 0–2 yrs exp · Freshers eligible · Full-time · Apply by 25 Oct 2026
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Quick answer: An entry-level cost accounting seat at a Flex manufacturing site in Chennai, open to freshers with a commerce or finance degree. Month-end accrual and reclass entries in ERP, cost metrics chased with the operations team, and SOPs kept current.
From Flex's job posting
Job Summary
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add Junior Financial Analyst - Cost Accounting Solutions in Chennai.
What a typical day looks like
- Perform all cost accounting activities that are defined
- Understand the corporate policy and follow-up of key cost accounting metrics
- Implement time saving/cost reducing initiatives through pocket kaizens & process improvements
- Work along with operations team & track reasons for metric non-conformances through regular follow ups
- Posting month end journal entries related to accruals and reclass in ERP
- Prepare & maintain SOP in line with the latest process and document them in DMS
- To learn & serve as a backup for cost accountant.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team
- Basic level knowledge in MS applications
- Excellent oral & written communication skills in English
- Good team player with analytical skills
- Willingness to learn & deploy the skills learnt in day to day process
- B.com/BBA (Finance)/M.com/MBA (Finance) Freshers/0-2 years of experience in relevant field
- MS office good knowledge in accounting principles Understand & interpret accounting policies.
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HireSetu's note
Where this sits in finance
Financial analyst is a broad title. The tasks here are cost accounting for a plant: month-end journals, cost metrics, and follow-ups with operations when a number goes off track. That's a different job from FP&A, forecasting or investment analysis, and closer to the factory floor than most finance graduates picture.
The upside is that cost accounting is a narrow, hireable skill. Someone who can read a variance, explain it and post the correcting entry is useful in any manufacturing company. Two years of this done properly gives you a specialism, not a generalist finance CV.
The accounting to have cold
Revise the parts of cost accounting you probably skimmed: standard costing, material and labour variances, absorption, accruals against reclass entries, and how cost of goods manufactured is built up. Know why a reclass entry exists and what goes wrong at close if it's missed.
MS Office is named, so be ready to describe what you've actually done in Excel, lookups and pivot tables, rather than reciting a list of functions. ERP exposure helps. A fresher can show a course or a college project where entries were posted in Tally or SAP. An internship where you sat near a month-end close, even as an observer, earns space on page one.
The SOP and DMS line tells you something about the job: this team documents its own processes. If you've written a procedure for a college society or a part-time job, that's relevant experience.
Drafted with AI from Flex's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.
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