Analyst, Financial - Assoc

Description

Reporting to the Plant Controller, the Financial Cost Analyst is directly responsible for managing cost accounting activities, financial analysis and other miscellaneous functions within a manufacturing environment. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintains proper level of understanding of changing and expanding manufacturing operations for effective evaluation and development of standard costs
• Participation in annual budgeting & quarterly forecasts
• Perform month-end duties including journal entries, report preparation and reconciliations
• Fixed Asset Administration; tracking of capital spending, capitalization, disposals and audits
• Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Audits
• Compile daily, weekly, and monthly plant metrics reports with investigation of unusual numbers and variances
• Analyze plant EBITDA on an ongoing basis to project monthly and quarterly results
• Review, interpret and communicate the business’ results, ensuring that financial results and variances are explained completely and accurately
• Follow-up and resolution of outstanding purchase orders, receiving, and invoicing
• Review of the business’ financial reporting systems and policies, amending current practices where appropriate to ensure accuracy of reporting
• Monitoring of the businesses annual budget to ensure cost-effective management
• Adapts to conflicting deadlines and priorities established by company demands
• Make recommendations for changes and improvements to overall efficiency of department, establishes procedures for new systems or reports that are assigned
• Project code set up and project reporting
• Involvement in Intercompany transaction resolution
• Works on special projects / cross functional teams as required
• Back up coverage for Controller
• Other duties as required

Required education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance required
• CPA Designation or working towards CPA designation (PEP level) preferred
• Minimum 2 years accounting experience in a standard costing environment an asset
• Experience in Automotive manufacturing cost accounting preferred
• Strong MS suite products
• SAP Experience in a manufacturing environment preferred

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Analytical mindset with a desire to find the hidden opportunities for cost savings
• Sound business decision-making skills
• Ability to stand alone Business Acumen: Financial, Analytical Ability to explain complex financial concepts to non-financial partners
• Strong communication skills and capable of interacting with all levels of the business

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