Financial Analyst
Howmet Aerospace · La Porte, IN · Today
On-siteFinanceFull-time
Responsibilities
- Analyze Manufacturing Inventory Cost.
- Maintain Payroll & Fringe expenses and Labor Standards.
- Maintain & Administer Site’s Fixed Assets and Capital Plan.
- Internal and External reporting requirements.
- Conduct research, including in-person interviews, observation, process mapping, and surveys.
- Summarize findings and help to develop recommendations.
- Improve upon existing business processes, if necessary.
- Develop various tools to enhance productivity within the department; this could require creating spreadsheets or databases.
- Prepare user documentation and carry out user training associated with application usage, and associated business processes/practices.
Essential Functions
- Investigate standard variances.
- Perform manufacturing analysis.
- Absist in calculating and planning cost reduction initiatives.
- Absist and oversee the General Accounting and Cost Accounting functions such as product costing, daily variance analysis, capital management and financial reporting.
- Absist in the preparation of the monthly business review package.
- Review/perform account reconciliations.
- Particip/back-up for daily reporting, daily checkbook and OT review.
- Absist/participate in physical inventories of product inventory and fixed asset inventory.
- Business unit/corporate requests.
- Absist in monthly finance close.
- Support management financial requests for information through detail analysis and reporting.
- Absist controller in forecasting/ budgeting as needed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with one (1) year of experience, or three (3) years’ related experience in business process modeling or database design.
- A combination of appropriate education and experience is also acceptable.
- Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
- Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
- 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.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Good verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to analyze information and make recommendations based on that analysis.
- Ability to organize and prioritize multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
- Detail oriented.
- Experience using Windows-based applications including Word, Excel, and Access.
- PowerPoint and Project experience is useful, but not mandatory.
- Experience developing systematic and manual operations procedures.