Financial Analyst FP&A - Manufacturing

Summary/Purpose

Responsible for creating accurate and timely financial and management reporting, and actionable analysis for the Healthcare Division and Tekniplex leadership teams.

Key contributor to the Division FP&A function.

• Lead, maintain and enhance financial reporting processes around actuals, forecast, budget and historical results in a changing systems environment by accessing information from disparate sources across both domestic and international business groups and incorporating into various reports and financial summaries.
• Maintain accurate reporting tools in order to validate departmental, divisional and corporate reports and systems.
• Support in creating monthly and ad hoc presentations Healthcare GLT, Tekni Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
• Support in creation of SG&A accounting environment and lead functional reporting reports and analysis.
• Support Healthcare Division SG&A accounting processes including review of invoices and spending accounts.
• Assist in coordination and development of the annual budget and quarterly/monthly financial forecasts.
• Support internal decision making by performing ad hoc analysis for executive and senior management across the organization as needed.
• Support financial Information Technology initiatives and new system implementations across the division.
• Work closely with Corporate FP&A to implement necessary reporting tools and parameters to obtain divisional results as expected.
• Support Business Unit sales and operational analysis tools, including sourcing of BU specific information such as customers, product lines, parts, operating variances, overhead expenses, etc.
• Regularly interact across functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure plant and division objectives are met.
• Together with the Corporate Accounting Team, identify and resolve Company's technical accounting issues; provide technical accounting guidance and recommendations to senior management and various business divisions, as documented in Company accounting position papers.
• Promotes worker safety by:
  • Actively assesses activities on a constant basis to ensure no unsafe actions or results will occur.
  • Stressing safe working practices as a condition of employment to associates.
  • Assisting in audits of employee behaviors to ensure compliance with safety rules and guidelines, as well as housekeeping audits and surveys.
• Actively participates in the continuous improvement process (CIP) by:
  • Identifying and addressing any opportunities to reduce cost, improve product/process and/or improve overall operations
  • Participating in CIP teams to eliminate problems, streamline operations or other areas as defined by management
  • Participating in CIP training and exercises designed to expand the potential for continuous improvement.

Performs other financial/business related duties that may be assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Business with more than 4+ years’ experience with a broad business acumen; CPA and/or Master’s degree preferred with strong GAAP (and IFRS) knowledge.
• Need to have flexibility to support team members and tasks across multiple time-zones across the United States, Europe and China, ensuring communication and tasks are completed in a well organized manner for all tasks to be completed by deadlines
• Ideal candidate will have experience working in a manufacturing environment and hands on knowledge of manufacturing systems and link to financial reporting and performance interpretation.
• Ability to focus and drive projects, tasks, and workflows to completion with limited hands-on support, and leveraging existing knowledge, or undertaking research and communication as needed to resolve problems and barriers that arise in the process.
• Follow-through skills necessary to get information from internal and third parties and have data errors/omissions corrected.
• Ability to build and drive an efficient and user-friendly process for developing financial plans and analysis that links to the strategic objectives.
• The ability to think on your feet and rapidly adjust to changing priorities is necessary.
  
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