Financial Analyst

The Financial Analyst will support both accounting and finance activities within a manufacturing environment, working closely with operations and finance leadership. This role requires strong analytical skills, solid accounting knowledge, and the ability to support decision-making through financial analysis, KPIs, budgeting, forecasting, inventory control, and CAPEX monitoring.  The individual will contribute to month-end close, cost accounting, financial performance analysis, and continuous improvement of finance processes and controls.

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Experience: Preferred 7+ years' experience in either project or manufacturing settings with costing experience
• Ability to close the books on tight timelines
• Understanding of balance sheet implications of percent of completion accounting or project accounting
• Ability to understand upstream and downstream effects of decision-making process
• Knowledge of pivot tables, Vlookups, and other intermediate formulas in Excel
• Mid-range to large ERP platform experience
• Experience in project services and cost engineering concepts, project initiation, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closeout as well as billing/invoicing, forecasting, and variance reporting.

• Support month-end close activities, including journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, and financial reviews
• Perform account reconciliations and support accuracy and completeness of financial statements
• Support cost accounting activities, including analysis of labor, overhead, standard costs, and manufacturing variances
• Prepare and analyze actual vs budget/forecast variances and provide clear explanations of key drivers
• Develop, monitor, and analyze financial and operational KPI's
• Support inventory control activities, including inventory analysis, reconciliations, and physical inventory counts
• Support CAPEX monitoring and analysis, including tracking capital expenditures, budget vs actual analysis, and coordination with operations and engineering teams
• Prepare financial reports and ad-hoc analysis for management
• Support continuous improvement of reporting, processes, and internal controls

Whether you are just getting started or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package to include generous compensation based on market standards, healthcare, wellness, adoption assistance, discounted stock purchase, career development and recognition programs. Some of our superior benefits include parental (maternal and paternal) leave, 401K retirement contribution match at 7%, educational assistance (tuition reimbursement), Short-term Disability (STD), paid holidays, paid vacation, and paid employee referral award.

We appreciate diverse skills/experience and yours could add immense value to our team. Our customers have varied backgrounds and so do our employees. If you are excited about leaving your footprint on our technical customer-centric solutions while increasing sales, we would love to hear from you.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, and genetic information. If you require an accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please contact us by email at

reasonableaccommodation@saft.com

About Us:

Saft is a global battery company like no other. Thanks to our historical expertise, combined with our unique industrial approach, we have a leading position in meeting the demands of our customers. Our batteries and battery systems make a difference for all the market sectors they serve.

Established in 19 countries and supported by our 17 production sites, Saft has more than 4,300 employees across the planet and have been manufacturing batteries for more than 100 years. Since 2016, Saft is a wholly owned subsidiary of TotalEnergies, a global integrated energy company that produces and markets energies:  oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables, and electricity.

Their 100,000 employees are committed to provide as many people as possible with energy that is more reliable, more affordable, and more sustainable. Active in about 120 countries, TotalEnergies places sustainability at the heart of its strategy, its projects and its operation.  We are a broad energy company that produces and markets energies on a global scale: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity.