New Sabina Industries is Hiring!

Nippon Seiki is a world-class manufacturer of instruments for vehicles, agricultural, and construction equipment. Established in 1945, Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd. is headquartered in Japan, with numerous facilities worldwide. N.S. International, Ltd. (“NSI”), a group company of Nippon Seiki, located in Troy, MI, is a tier one supplier of instrument clusters and head-up display units for FCA US, General Motors, BMW, Honda, Harley Davidson, Suzuki, Polaris, Arctic Cat, and other OEMs.

Responsibilities

• Manage the entire fixed asset process from beginning to end, including:
  • Creating the CIP project in Plex (ERP system)
  • Following up with responsible parties to ensure timely capitalization of assets
  • Adding assets in Plex
  • Monthly depreciation posting and reconciliations
  • Quarterly rollforwards
  • Asset disposals as needed
• Oversee an annual fixed asset physical, collecting and summarizing counts, identifying discrepancies, and gaining approvals for asset disposal.
• Work closely with the Engineering department on timing of in-service dates and to obtain proper documentation to set up assets.
• Oversee all aspects of the Plex cost accounting module, ensuring inventory is properly valued and all transactional inventory movements are accurately and timely recorded to produce reliable financial statements.
• Conduct weekly reviews of purchase price variance, inventory revaluation, gross margin detail, and standard cost activity to identify and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Work closely with Purchasing and Product Data Management to understand significant purchase price variance and inventory revaluation financial impact.
• Support the annual calculation of labor and overhead rates as well as perform monthly analysis of labor and overhead variances.
• Prepare monthly operating margin analysis report, gaining understanding of individual program material/price variance by working with NSNA Ohio Purchasing and NSNA Troy Business Development.
• Responsible for various sections of quarterly IFRS reporting, including compiling and summarizing Related Party transactions, Capital Spend, and Fixed Asset Roll Forward.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• 3 years or more experience in fixed asset management, cost planning, and/or financial planning at a tier one automotive supplier.
• 1 year or more manufacturing experience.
• Experience demonstrating effective leadership, directly or indirectly, for multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong cross-departmental communication skills.
• Experience conveying information clearly and concisely to a management-level audience.
• Experience using Plex or another ERP system.
• Experience with an international organization; Japanese and/or Mexico experience preferred.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Fluent in Japanese and English (speaking, reading, writing) preferred.