FP&A Financial Analyst - Manufacturing

TekniPlex•Madison, WI

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for creating accurate and timely financial and management reporting, and actionable analysis for the Healthcare Division and Tekniplex leadership teams. This role is a key contributor to the Division FP&A function, leading, maintaining, and enhancing financial reporting processes for actuals, forecasts, budgets, and historical results within a dynamic systems environment. The analyst will access information from disparate domestic and international sources, incorporate it into various reports and financial summaries, and maintain accurate reporting tools to validate departmental, divisional, and corporate reports and systems. The position also involves supporting the creation of monthly and ad hoc presentations for the Healthcare GLT, Tekniplex Executive Committee, and Board of Directors, as well as supporting the SG&A accounting environment and leading functional reporting and analysis. The role includes reviewing invoices and spending accounts, assisting in the coordination and development of the annual budget and financial forecasts, performing ad hoc analysis for senior management, and supporting financial IT initiatives and new system implementations. Collaboration with Corporate FP&A is essential for implementing reporting tools and parameters. The analyst will also support Business Unit sales and operational analysis, including sourcing BU-specific information, and regularly interact with senior management across functional areas to ensure objectives are met. Additionally, the role involves identifying and resolving technical accounting issues with the Corporate Accounting Team, providing technical accounting guidance, and promoting worker safety through active assessment, stressing safe practices, and assisting in safety audits. The position also actively participates in the continuous improvement process (CIP) by identifying cost reduction opportunities, improving products/processes, and participating in CIP teams and training.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Business with more than 4+ years’ experience with a broad business acumen
strong GAAP (and IFRS) knowledge
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
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.
The ability to inspire confidence and trust are essential.
This position requires a strong team player that is committed to a teamwork environment, leading by example with a hands-on approach to get things done.
Strong documentation skills, reporting skills, interpersonal skills and computer skills are required.
Ability to travel up to 10%
Excellent English and communication skills, both verbal and written.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Significant experience working with one or more of the following ERP and reporting systems: Hyperion, OneStream, IBM Cognos, SAP, AS400, and/or LN/Infor.
Strong Excel skills to allow analysis and interpretation of financial data.
Data analysis tools and languages including Tableau, Power BI, SQL and Python.
Familiarity/experience in a global/international business in Europe/S. America/ Asia required.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to interpret bar graphs.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, and percentages.
Ability to apply concepts such as fractions.

Nice To Haves

CPA and/or Master’s degree preferred
Italian/Spanish language skills preferred.

Responsibilities

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, Tekniplex 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.