Financial Analyst

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepare monthly financial forecasts, weekly forecast updates, financial and operational results analysis, monthly account reconciliation, and inventory analysis.
• Perform Self-Assessment audits as well as ensuring SOX compliance.
• Reviews, analyzes, and reports monthly manufacturing variances and plant expenses that can significantly impact job costing such as raw material alloy purchases, alloy inventory, and cost of production labor, outplant, qualification and development, research and development and other indirect costs.
• Cross functional development of departmental budgets including reviews, analysis & periodic reporting of key metrics.
• Aids internal and external auditors on facility audits.
• Aid in providing management with reports specifying and comparing factors affecting prices and profitability of products or services.
• Aid in providing actual financial results and performance measures to corporate office on monthly basis.
• Prepare and post Journal entries.
• Perform monthly account reconciliation is needed.
• Other accounting tasks as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in an accounting role.
• Formal training and experience in financial accounting, cost accounting, financial analysis, and reporting.
• Strong analytical and evaluative skills.
• Developed written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills as this team member will interact frequently with personnel outside of accounting and finance department.
• Strong decision-making skills: incumbent needs to analyze and synthesize data, and be able to make decisions without having complete information.
• Expert user of Microsoft Office products.
• Epicor, Oracle, and Hyperion experience a plus.