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Form of workPRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Frequent plant manager contact; active participation in plant financial driven discussions
- Partner with Operations team to solve and continuously improve use of local ERP.
- Partner with Operations to develop new reporting tools for plant management.
- Assist Operations with keeping open sales orders, purchase orders, and shipped-not-invoiced up to date.
- Work with Purchasing to ensure timely costing and analysis of purchase price variance to prevent variances.
- Support Plant Controller in analyzing plant financial performance comparing actuals to plan and forecast.
- Support Plant Controller in Establishing labor and overhead absorption rates and analyze related variances monthly with quarterly adjustments.
- Create and publish KPI's and dashboards/metrics that are timely, insightful, and automated by working cross-functionally with multiple Business Units.
- Lead and report on variances regularly to find ways to improve costing and processes.
- Identify, coordinate and reviews cost accounting projects, such as price and margin analysis, customer, market and product profitability, data warehouse integrity and reporting, etc.
- Analyze inventory levels and valuations and support cycle/physical counts. Recommend ways to minimize variances.
- Complete and month end Mfg. process.
- Facilitate data gathering and clean-up for annual cost roll.
- Assists Plan Controller with special projects as required.
- Perform other work-related tasks as assigned.
- Work with and develop Strong Communication over Financial MFG Variances.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's Degree in accounting of business required.
- Minimum 2 year's experience in Accounting Role preferred (MFG setting required)
- CPA\MBA - Obtained or in the process of obtaining required.
- Strong skills and knowledge of MFG accounting and Standard Costing
- Working knowledge of the MFG business
- Strong managerial presence that reflects a "hand-on" participative, pro-active operating style requiring a high energy level and tolerance to tight deadlines
- Excellent communication; strong planning and organization skills
- Strong desire to work across teams to find solutions and improve performance.
