Senior Finance Analyst

What you’ll do:

The Plant Finance Analyst serves as a financial business partner to Plant Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Planning, Quality, Engineering, and Cost Accounting. The position is responsible for analyzing inventory, standard costs, manufacturing variances, Cost of Non-Conformance, and working-capital performance to identify operational and financial risks, support sound business decisions, and drive corrective actions.

The analyst moves beyond reporting results by identifying the operational drivers behind financial performance, quantifying the impact on inventory, profitability, absorption, margin, and cash flow, and ensuring that significant issues are assigned to accountable owners and followed through to resolution.


A. Inventory and Working-Capital Analysis
Analyze raw material, work in process, finished goods, Days on Hand, inventory receipts, consumption, aging, and excess and obsolete inventory . Identify the operational decisions and trends affecting inventory investment, customer service, cash flow, and working-capital performance. 

B. Inventory Risk Identification
Escalate emerging risks before they result in excess inventory, shortages, service disruption, or E&O exposure.

C. WIP and Work-Order Controls
Perform regular analysis of aged WIP and open work orders. Partner with Operations, Quality, and Engineering to identify production bottlenecks, quality holds, transaction errors, rework loops, and incomplete work-order closures. Support physical analysis when reported balances require validation.

D. CONC Analysis and Corrective Action
Analyze Cost of Non-Conformance, including scrap, rework, excess and obsolete inventory, premium freight, warranty, and reactive maintenance. Determine how operational breakdowns affect inventory, profitability, cash, production flow, and customer service, and support root-cause corrective actions.

E. Suspect Material and Disposition Management
Support the financial review of suspect, nonconforming, and scrap material. Monitor value, aging, ownership, disposition status, ERP transactions, supplier recovery, debit actions, and corrective-action closure. Collaborate with the Material Review Board or equivalent team to prevent hidden inventory or financial exposure.

F. Excess and Obsolete Inventory
Review E&O and slow-moving inventory reports, challenge demand and recovery assumptions, validate exclusions and reserve treatment, and identify root causes. Coordinate actions to recover, consume, return, rework, sell, or disposition affected inventory and prevent future E&O generation.

G. Standard Cost Maintenance and Validation
Support Cost Accounting Center of Excellence and site functions. Support on standard-cost accuracy by validating material, labor, routing, bill-of-material, burden-rate, sourcing, product-mix, and manufacturing-process assumptions. Identify operational changes requiring costing review and communicate them to the COE

H. Corrective-Action Governance and Continuous Improvement
Maintain action tracking for significant inventory, costing, and variance issues. Ensure each action has one accountable owner, a due date, a measurable outcome, and a defined review cadence. Monitor trends to validate sustained improvement.

Qualifications:

Skills:

Competencies

Technical Competencies

Standard costing and manufacturing cost accounting
Inventory accounting and working-capital analysis
Financial planning, forecasting, and Profit Plan support
Variance and root-cause analysis
Cost of Non-Conformance analysis
ERP and financial-reporting systems
Microsoft Excel and data-analysis tools
Power BI or similar visualization tools
Financial controls and policy compliance
Financial commentary and management reporting

Business partnering
Analytical thinking and problem-solving
Attention to detail
Ownership and accountability
Constructive challenge
Cross-functional collaboration
Clear written and verbal communication
Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
Continuous-improvement mindset
Ability to translate financial data into operational actions

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