Senior Financial Analyst - Plant Leadership Business Partner

Why consider joining our client?

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• A publicly traded company on a path of continuous growth.
  
• Comprehensive insurance coverage from day one.
  
• Extremely competitive 401k matching and employer contribution program.
  
• Vibrant company culture and collaborative team environment.
  
• Access to excellent training programs for professional development.
  
• Free Fitness Center Membership.
  

• Identifies key levers to drive business improvement and provide leadership to ensure implementation of business improvement opportunities.
  
• Determines, in conjunction with plant management, targeted goals for performance measures of quality, productivity, delivery, cycle time, inventory optimization and profitability.
  
• Deploys business unit initiatives.
  
• Daily reporting management, monthly forecasting, and annual planning.
  
• Analyzes data for decision-making and tracking performance progress.
  
• Coordinates capital appropriation process and post-project reviews 
  
• Ensures completion of the company's Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for internal controls.
  
• Performs job duties in a safe and efficient manner.
  
• Complies with the company's and business unit financial reporting requirements.
  
• Performs other work-related duties as necessary.
  

• Enterprise minded--understands the needs of the business and how decisions affect P&L, balance sheet and future capabilities, influences capex based on broad business case. 
  
• Responsive expertise--prepared with information to help support decision-making both upon request and future planning based.
  
• Compliance--organized and aware of legal and local ramifications to decisions and practices; proactively prepared for audits.
  
• Data-oriented--anticipates and solves problems from a data-informed perspective; forecasts accurately and tracks closely; supports interventions in ways that influence numbers. 
  
• Involved and curious--spends time on the shop floor to understand business in greater detail; seeks to make improvements and strengthen partnerships through relationship and comprehension; understands operational consequences of decisions.
  
• Analysis--reviews decisions and data ex post facto to glean increased understanding; incorporates learning into future decision-making support.
  
• Accountability--compares business case to actual performance and collaborates with the Controller and Plant Leaders to ensure success of investments.
  
• Interpretation and translation--able to tell a story with the data; brings life to the numbers through observation and familiarity with the business.
  
• Prioritization--understands market and organizational conditions and prioritizes efforts; accordingly, supports the management of tension between revenue and costs, etc.
  
• Communication--proactively provides information about data, forecasting and financials to enable best possible decision-making for individual leaders and the organization; seeks information from others and disseminates accordingly as a conduit or hub.
  

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance/Accounting or related field from an accredited school.
  
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Finance or Accounting in a manufacturing environment.
  
• This position entails access to export-controlled items and employment offers are conditioned upon an applicant’s ability to lawfully obtain access to such items
  

• Qualified Accountant, CPA, CMA, and/or MBA.
  
• High proficiency in MS Office software, experience in using queries, including Essbase, Hyperion, Oracle or similar systems. Advanced Excel skills.