Senior MFG Finance Analyst

Senior MFG Finance Analyst

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance related field
• 3+ years of experience in Financial Planning, Operational Finance or Corporate Finance. Experience with plant standard costing systems.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Knowledge of US GAAP.
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time.
• Work in an office environment where exposure to production areas is required.

Responsibilities

• Drive both cost and cash productivity in the plants partnering with the leadership team to generate top line growth and gross margin expectations.
• Focus on Integrated Supply Chain initiatives.
• Lead and improve our Excess and Obsolete analysis and process.
• Prepare reports on daily, weekly & monthly basis to assist in the tracking and improvement of safety, quality, delivery, cost and cash metrics.
• Lead location inventory and asset reporting, review, and accuracy.
• Drive the development of analytical tools and capabilities to better understand the plants’ manufacturing cost structure.
• Understand and show capability to summarize and communicate clearly value stream and plant financial and operating results in order to measure progress against objectives and to assess the effectiveness of decisions made by plant management team.
• Clearly articulate the drivers of variance, including volume, mix, inflation and productivity.
• Provide variance analysis of cost center spend vs budget, identifying trends and key cost drivers.
• Participate in and able to lead cross-functional projects focused on driving operational improvements in the plant.
• Lead the month-end close process which includes preparing journal entries and loading results in reporting package tool.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience working with Percent of Completion Revenue recognition is preferred.
• Experience with Tableau, Sievo and/or OneStream XF an asset.
• Experience with an ERP system preferred.