**Primary Job Responsibilities**:
- Develop a business partnership with functional operations.
- leadership to assist in decision making and achieve desired business results by positively driving accountability
- Drive operational efficiency, identify productivity gaps, and assist in crafting action plans for gap closure
- Ensure compliance with Corporate Accounting Policies and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. Prepares required accounting accruals, reconciliations and journal entries to support financial reporting while ensuring accounting procedures conform to GAAP and SOX requirements
- Analyze and clearly articulate financial consequences of potential actions to help drive informed decision making
- Facilitate the reporting of financial metrics and scorecards that track the success of sourcing initiatives, cost savings projects, capital spending, and working capital management
- Support and drive efficient processes around daily, weekly, and monthly key business metrics
- Perform detailed financial modeling for arguments related to capital projects and cost savings initiatives including ownership of the review and approval process.
- Develop quoting and margin analysis models for current and new products
- Supports financial reporting and monthly / quarterly close and forecast process
- Performs analysis that aids in the decision making process, helps improve profitability, and identifies new business opportunities. Monitor monthly progress against budgets / targets and works with managers to ensure accountability
- Prepares month-end journal entries and account reconciliations in an accurate and timely manner
- Review Project/Capital spend to ensure that appropriations request accurately reflect the true costs and benefits of the projects
**Minimum **Requirements/Qualifications/Characteristics**:
- Bachelors' Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics
- 5+ years of finance or operational experience
- Strong EXCEL skills and excellent interpersonal skills are required
- Self-motivated with the ability to multi-task, intensity and meet tight goals.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to identify key drivers of financial performance, particularly in manufacturing.
- High energy and confident ability to influence a continuous improvement culture
- Experience with and understanding of ERP systems in a manufacturing environment
- Dedication to excellence and high standards