Financial Analyst

Saft America, Inc. • Jacksonville, FL

31d • Onsite

About The Position

The Financial Analyst will support both accounting and finance activities within a manufacturing environment, working closely with operations and finance leadership. This role requires strong analytical skills, solid accounting knowledge, and the ability to support decision-making through financial analysis, KPIs, budgeting, forecasting, inventory control, and CAPEX monitoring. The individual will contribute to month-end close, cost accounting, financial performance analysis, and continuous improvement of finance processes and controls.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Experience: Preferred 7+ years' experience in either project or manufacturing settings with costing experience
• Ability to close the books on tight timelines
• Understanding of balance sheet implications of percent of completion accounting or project accounting
• Ability to understand upstream and downstream effects of decision-making process
• Knowledge of pivot tables, Vlookups, and other intermediate formulas in Excel
• Mid-range to large ERP platform experience
• Experience in project services and cost engineering concepts, project initiation, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closeout as well as billing/invoicing, forecasting, and variance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support month-end close activities, including journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, and financial reviews
• Perform account reconciliations and support accuracy and completeness of financial statements
• Support cost accounting activities, including analysis of labor, overhead, standard costs, and manufacturing variances
• Prepare and analyze actual vs budget/forecast variances and provide clear explanations of key drivers
• Develop, monitor, and analyze financial and operational KPI's
• Support inventory control activities, including inventory analysis, reconciliations, and physical inventory counts
• Support CAPEX monitoring and analysis, including tracking capital expenditures, budget vs actual analysis, and coordination with operations and engineering teams
• Prepare financial reports and ad-hoc analysis for management
• Support continuous improvement of reporting, processes, and internal controls

Benefits

• Generous compensation based on market standards
• Healthcare
• Wellness
• Adoption assistance
• Discounted stock purchase
• Career development and recognition programs
• Parental (maternal and paternal) leave
• 401K retirement contribution match at 7%
• Educational assistance (tuition reimbursement)
• Short-term Disability (STD)
• Paid holidays
• Paid vacation
• Paid employee referral award

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level