Financial Analyst

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop reporting tools for profitability, gross margin trends, cost reductions projects, and overhead spending.
• Perform analysis to provide management with financial and operational data and recommendations.
• Collaborate with IT/Business Systems Analyst to develop reports from the ERP system data.
• Prepare, review, and distribute daily reports on operations and sales.
• Aid in preparing and reviewing capital expenditure projects, including return on investment, monitoring spending and project completion.
• Provide detailed cost information and data analysis for inventory, including costing and inventory reserves.
• Coordinate inventory cycle counts and physical observations. Review results, identify trends and process improvements.
• Participate in the preparation of monthly and quarterly financial and operational reporting packages. Prepare bridges to actual results.
• Maintain subsidiary ledgers. Reconcile balance sheet accounts monthly.
• Prepare journal entries. Strict adherence to internal control procedures.
• Participate in SOX compliance activities.
• Perform backup duties for others in the Finance department.
• Contribute to team effort.

Qualifications

• Must be excellent with financial data, attention to detail, and meeting deadlines.
• Willingness to learn from others and demonstrate desire to learn on one's own.
• Must be a US Person.
• Bachelor’s degree and minimum of three years of equivalent Accounting experience.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including ability to work independently and with teams across a broad spectrum of departments and personalities.
• General and cost accounting experience, financial reporting experience, working knowledge of GAAP and internal controls, strong spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel) skills, good analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills, good understanding of fundamental accounting transaction flows including system interfaces.
• ERP and Microsoft Access experience a plus.