Plant Financial Analyst

About the job

The ideal candidate will be responsible for using their analytical mindset to analyze and interpret financial data, then relating it to potential business trends and issues. This candidate will feel comfortable using insights they have discovered to communicate important themes and discoveries to company leadership.

To help us drive excellence, you’ll get to:

• Reconcile general ledger transactions on a weekly and monthly basis
• Analyze actual P&L performance variances to budget and forecast and identify causes to help improve operational efficiencies
• Assist Sr. Plant Accountant in the budget and forecast process
• Update standard material costs for quarterly commodity cost changes related to all RAW, WIP, and FG inventories
• Perform month end and inventory reconciliations
• Support program finance with pre and post production cost valuation reports
• Perform manufacturing costs analysis
• Report key operational metrics and assist operations management with cost improvement projects created to improve metrics performance
• Assist Sr. Plant Accountant with overseeing annual physical inventories
• Analyze cycle count results and assist material management with reconciling variances
• Perform various ad hoc reports

This full-time, onsite at our Holland, MI Facility, salary, role is a part of our Holland team and reports to the Plant Controller.

Required experience:

· Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or five years plus related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience

· Knowledge of automotive industry practices

· Finance/Accounting Bachelor’s degree required

· Strong analytical and problem solving skills

· Experience in Microsoft Office at an intermediate level with Microsoft Excel at advanced level

· Experience in QAD and Monarch preferred

· Program/project management skills

· Ability to read and understand process sheets and bill of materials