Manufacturing Finance Analyst

Weir•Salt Lake, MI

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Manufacturing Finance Analyst Weir Minerals Salt Lake City Onsite Purpose of Role: Will lead the Operational Finance for Salt Lake City and St. Louis and take overall responsibility for Financial Analytics, reporting operational performance, developing and ensuring compliance with costing policies, and cost accounting oversight while driving continuous improvement and efficiency in the business operations. Why choose Weir: Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it is exciting. An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives. Feel empowered to be yourself and belong : Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Requirements

Previous Finance Experience in a Product Based Business
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
At least 5 years finance experience (Several different Finance experiences)
Experience using SAP or Large ERP System

Nice To Haves

Large Manufacturing Based company is a Plus
Commercial roles, Cost accounting roles and General Finance roles are a plus

Responsibilities

Financial Analytics & Driving operational performance Improvements
Maintain and enforce the divisional cost accounting principles and policies, including training where necessary to ensure operational teams fully understand the principles and policies
Review, report and analyze operational performance of the Salt Lake City and St Louis businesses; with regular interaction with operations leaders to drive performance
Lead the cost roll process across the business, validating increases / decreases where required
Support development of standard operational KPI reports
Develop early warning, gap analysis and countermeasure recommendations for various operations financial KPIs.
Strategic operational initiatives and planning
Lead finance operations input into the annual budget and quarterly forecasting cycle – including assumptions on costs, recoveries and variances
Lead and drive inventory financial analytics / Annual inventory verification and work with Supply Chain leaders to improve processes
Provide proactive, reliable, and credible financial advice on a broad range of operational issues to key business partners
Develop and implement capital expenditure business cases to support investment decisions and priorities.
Ad-hoc operational finance projects as they arise
Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.