Financial Analysis Associate

Celestica•Richardson, TX

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

This is an entry-level position where an employee receives both functional and organizational training under moderate supervision. Incumbents carry out assignments within well-defined practices, procedures, and policies. Works independently on details of assignments, with limited decision-making authority; most decisions are made or guided by the immediate supervisor. Decisions/actions may have an impact on the department's/divisions goals. Works under moderate supervision and requires direction on how assignments are to be executed; begins to put forward ideas on how work assignments are completed. Establishes cooperative relationships to work effectively with colleagues; supports others and participates as a team member. Responsibility for own work commitments. Interacts directly with immediate supervisor, co-workers and team members; engages in routine exchanges of information; interactions with external contacts, if applicable, would be monitored.

Requirements

Strong system skills, including common office platforms such as MS Office.
Strong analytical skills.
Good communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
Ability to manage multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
Ability to distinguish between urgent and important issues and prioritize work accordingly.
Ability to evaluate, prioritize, and problem-solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
Ability to effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
Ability to calculate and do basic interpretation of all key business metrics.
Ability to provide interpretation of reports/results to users.
Ability to generate reports with job-related software.
Understanding of the capabilities of the tools can identify problems and trouble shoot input errors.

Responsibilities

Provides product cost and pricing support for all products in production for the appropriate site or region.
Determines profitability by product (or group of products) by applying the appropriate price model, cost model and any other actual information available.
Generates business cases, including capital expenditures and design/process changes.
Performs product cost analysis, identifying differences between actual and assumed costs for major products.
Provides input for the calculation of material cost.
Tracks and recovers EC, NRE, upgrade, and rework activities and other assigned activities.
Takes independent action to gather ideas and gain consensus with cross-functional teams on process improvement recommendations.
Communicates to ensure ideas are understood and accepts the perspective of others.
Writes effectively and makes internal presentations.
Actively participates in team discussions.
Shares ideas, knowledge, and skills.
Treats all team members fairly.
Evaluates alternatives based on pros/cons.
Provides input on how to manage required changes.
Leads by example and is accountable for own actions.