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Costing Analyst

Job Description

The
Senior Financial Analyst will assist the Plant Controller in all area of
costs and budgets through the review of operations and the criteria used for
developing cost standards and expense budgets to establish an acceptable base
for measuring product cost, expense control, and Plant performance.

Essential Duties and
Responsibilities:

• Working with Central Costing Accounting and
  Materials, develop and load annually material and
  freight standard costs into MFG Pro system. 
• Develop Burden and Overhead rates annually
  for facility. 
• Review all BOM audits, make necessary
  changes. 
• Instruct Materials on error and
  changes. 
• Review labor routes, cost new parts, make
  sure BOM op levels and labor routes match. 
• Analyze standard costs on periodic basis
  and review variances including preparation of monthly volume/mix/price
  variance and OPS and CCAIF bridges.  
• Review and approve savings in Six Sigma
  Trac & support Continuous Improvement projects. 
• From time to time, will review plant
  procedures to determine cost saving effectiveness of meeting plant goals
  (tell CI about route differentials, heads and run rates). 
• Act as BOS & SOX internal auditor and
  coordinator for the department.  Review all transactions associated
  with inventory (scrap, cycle counting, and obsolete). 
• Coordinate with Central Commercial Finance
  to processes retro-billing as deemed necessary. 
• Processes tasks associated with Accounts
  Receivables including reconciliation’s and applying cash deposits. 
  Prepare profit plans and forecasts by analyzing financial data, and advise
  management of the monthly performance. 
• Prepare appropriation requests and the
  justification of same for capital expenditures to insure that the funds
  are being requested in accordance with the Corporate guidelines. 
• Prepare and distribute monthly actual vs
  budget report to departmental managers and review large variance with
  departmental managers and the Plant Controller. 
• Assists in processing accounts
  payable. 
• Insure proper account distribution for work
  orders submitted through observation and review of work orders and the
  project status report.  
• Review return material to suppliers and
  reconcile with IRIS.  
• Responsible for monthly freight
  reconciliation between projected freight costs and freight payments to
  ensure sufficient freight accrued. 
• Directs quarterly physical inventories with
  Materials; run reports; freeze system.
• Explains book to physical differences and
  establishes procedures to eliminate inventory variances. 
• Account Reconciliations. 
• Analyze balance sheet – make
  recommendations. 
• Assist Controller in balance sheet audits
  and internal audits. 
• Review all Pro-Card (credit card)
  reconciliations. 
• Review Platforms/Sales for
  discrepancies. 
• Analyze all construction-in-progress (CIP)
  projects, make sure all costs spent, billed, posted. 
• Roll CIP to fixed assets. 
• Assist in Fixed Asset Audit. 
• Record all asset transfers and
  disposals. 
• Open PO analysis, assist MRO buyer with
  invoice approvals, work with vendors on a/p issues Review a/p GRIR (Goods
  Received awaiting Invoice Receipt) and make necessary write offs. 
• Payroll reconciliations, analysis, and
  general ledger postings. 
• Coordinate with Launch Manager on launch,
  costs, BOM preparation, routes analysis, expenditures.

Your Qualifications

Education / Experience /
Skills:

• Bachelors Degree with major in
  accounting or equivalent.
• Two (2) years in automotive
  plant-level manufacturing accounting areas described above.
• Experience and/or knowledge of
  cost accounting
• Proficiency with MS Excel and
  other MS Office tools is required. 
• Knowledge of SAP and QAD
  MFG/Pro preferred.
• Sarbane-Oxley experience a
  plus.
• Excellent communication skills