at Robert Half in NORTHBROOK, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description
- – Cost Accounting/FP& A Experience
- Pricing, Manufacturing, and Inventory
- Strong Excel & experience working in a Plant
- Oracle Financials Preferred
Partner with the Plant Management to manage and optimize all aspects of the P& L, including COGS, freight and other
cost drivers.
- Drive efficiencies by managing the day-to-day accounting functions, month end close and regulatory compliance.
- Critically analyze and report all inventory activity and provisions, including spoilage and obsolescence. Proactively
interact with manufacturing/operations, to understand and reduce inefficiencies. Oversight the finished goods and raw
materials physical counts. Ensure cycle count processes are in place.
- Perform regular manufacturing variance analysis, reconciling and identifying main drivers for material, labor and
overhead variances.
- Analyze and report main driver of Purchase Price Variance (PPV) by category. Partnering with supply chain to address
main variances.
- Prepare finance KPI reports and present trends and findings to local management
- Proactively working with Manufacturing and Supply Chain to promote continuous improvement of setting up bill of
materials and routings in order to accurately calculate the annual standard costs by SKU.
- Partnering with manufacturing and supply chain to develop the annual operating plan (Budget) quarterly forecast
reviews, working cross functionally with sales, operation, supply chain and finance partners.
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative, review monthly performance against budgets/targets, highlighting discrepancies,
risks and opportunities
- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to monitor productivity and cost reduction initiatives and track results to the
P& L.
- Providing project specific financial analysis and support as required by the Management for the industrial sites
- Drive consistency and accuracy on the plant reporting and analysis
- Assist with internal and external audits
- Work in special projects assigned by the local management team
Requirements Cost Accounting, Financial Planning, Financial Analysis, Manufacturing Cost Accounting, Purchase Price Variance, Manufacturing Variance, Oracle Financials, Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), KPI ReportingRobert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles.
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