Financial Analyst

Overview

Purpose Statement : Acts as a Finance Business Partner to provide financial leadership at a manufacturing site and drives financial performance improvement. Responsible for a variety of financial activities, including sales and margin forecasting, analysis of customer profitability, key balance sheet metrics and financial risk avoidance. The key job responsibilities remain consistent across all financial analyst job levels with higher levels characterized by increasing levels of customers, customer complexity and customer scope.

Key Job Accountabilities

• Prepare and analyze financial reports providing clear communication and actionable insight on results and performance.
• Use analysis of historical results, quoted margins and projected margins to establish financial goals for the customer account. Proactively manage customer financial results, including margin management, cost recovery and driving customer profitability. Challenge customer teams to mitigate risks and realize opportunities.
• Lead the customer forecast process. Prepare accurate monthly customer sales and margin forecasts and weekly updates.
• Possess a thorough understanding of customer contracts and pricing models in place for assigned customers. Lead risk mitigation and cost recovery initiatives for the customer, and help ensure pricing models are properly implemented, executed and managed appropriately.
• Follow the financial month-end close processes; work with corporate accounting, site management and supporting teams to ensure site- and customer-level financial results are correctly stated in accordance with corporate procedures and that we meet all audit and control requirements.

Education / Experience Qualifications

Other Qualifications

Physical Requirements

Travel Requirements

This document does not represent a contract of employment and is not intended to capture every possible assignment the incumbent could be asked to perform.

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