Plant Financial Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Support month-end close activities, including journal entry support, accruals, account reconciliations, and variance analysis.
• Prepare and analyze monthly financial results, including sales, cost of goods sold, labor, overhead, inventory, scrap, and EBITDA performance.
• Aid in forecast, budget, and annual operating plan preparation.
• Prepare weekly and monthly reporting packages for plant and finance leadership.
• Analyze actual results versus forecast, budget, and prior periods, identifying key drivers and risks.

Cost Accounting & Manufacturing Analysis

• Analyze manufacturing variances, including labor efficiency, material usage, purchase price variance, overhead absorption, and scrap.
• Support standard cost reviews, BOM/routing analysis, and cost roll activities.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to validate cost assumptions, cycle times, labor rates, and process changes.
• Maintain inventory movements, WIP, finished goods, obsolete/slow-moving inventory, and inventory valuation.
• Assist with physical inventory, cycle counts, and inventory reconciliation processes.

Operational KPIs & Business Support

• Develop and maintain plant performance dashboards and KPI reporting.
• Track key operational metrics such as production volume, labor hours, scrap, downtime, productivity, inventory levels, and absorption impact.
• Provide financial support for continuous improvement projects and cost reduction initiatives.
• Support plant leadership with ad hoc financial analysis and business case evaluations.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting accuracy, process efficiency, and financial controls.

Systems & Process Improvement

• Extract, validate, and analyze data from ERP and reporting systems.
• Maintain accurate and consistent reporting files, templates, and databases.
• Support improvements in reporting automation, data integrity, and standard work processes.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve data or transaction issues impacting financial reporting.