Senior Finance Analyst (Capital Costing)

• Competitive salary.
• Competitive health and benefit plan.
• Competitive matched retirement savings program.
• The opportunity to join a continuously growing organization with a focus on Diversity and Inclusion.
• The opportunity to work with an industry leader in manufacturing.

• Responsible for monthly reporting and analysis on plant operations, including the ability to analyze variances.
• Responsible for the set-up of new standard bills of material (BOM) and ensuring existing BOMs standards are accurate.
• Work closely with Operations Directors to prepare annual capital budget and cash flow.
• Responsible for building annual overhead budgets, working closely with site leads.
• Maintain and provide reports on all capital expenditure projects.
• Prepare cash flow forecast in relation to capital spend.
• Lead Capital approval process.
• Work with Internal Audit, as required, when fixed asset audits are being conducted.
• Ensure financial records are maintained in compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Prepare financial management reports as requested.
• Prepare supporting schedules for the financial audits.
• Comply with relevant laws and regulations and ensure the integrity of financial data.
• Meet all financial reporting deadlines.
• Ensure all company policies relating to fixed assets are well documented, current and in place.
• Responsible for month-end accruals and analysis
• Continuous improvement: Monitor operations and make recommendations on opportunities for improvement. Share knowledge between sites, working with them to implement best practices / recommendations consistently across all sites and monitor implementation to ensure proper execution/implementation.

• Be a positive, contributing team member.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work with a high degree of accuracy.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.
• Have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Have excellent communication skills.
• Proficient with technology. Computer skills a must, specific proficiency in Excel (advanced formulas, pivot tables, filters), Word, PowerPoint, Internet, and email.
• Highly motivated with strong analytical, planning, problem-solving and time management skills.
• Ability to act and operate independently with minimal daily supervision.
• Ability to work cooperatively with all levels of employees, management, and external parties.
• Strong Fact-Based Decision-Making skills – supports decisions with data and uses data to solve problems.
• Ability to Establish Plans – set clear, measurable goals, anticipating roadblocks and adjusts for problems, can accurately assess the length and difficulty of tasks.
• Change Champion – able to communicate changes, remove obstacles and understand who needs to be involved in driving changes.
• Strong execution skills – can provide support without removing responsibility, monitors progress to ensure achievement of goals, coordinates with other work groups.
• Possesses the ability to strategize and solve problems, working directly with operations.
• Display a willingness to take on a broad range of duties and projects and be comfortable with a flexible, hands-on approach.
• Strong customer focus - includes the ability to balance the needs of the customer with the needs of the business as well as fostering a strong customer focus mindset.
• Excels in an environment that fosters process improvement and challenges the status quo to eliminate non-value-added work.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required.
• Accounting/finance experience required.
• Strong understanding of accounting theory & transactions.
• Manufacturing accounting experience.
• Accounting designation or working towards one is preferred.

• Office: limited travel to sites across North America required.

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