Job Description
We are seeking a strategic Financial Planning Analyst to partner with key stakeholders and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
* Business Partnership: Work closely with leadership to provide operations support on a day-to-day basis, ensuring seamless communication across all tiers.
* Financial Analysis: Drive decision making through robust financial analysis on capital investment, cost saving and innovation initiatives.
Operational Performance Reporting
* Communicate performance effectively to shareholders and factory management, including updating and presenting non-financial KPIs.
* Drive improvements in Factory Operations Analysis and reporting of plant manufacturing performance and efficiency.
Additional Responsibilities
* Maintain accurate weekly price files.
* Product costing reporting and gross margin analysis by SKU.
* Process costing, promotional costing, CAPEX project costing, labour analysis, KPI, efficiencies etc.
* Overhead analysis.
* Systems and reports review.
* Determine best practice and drive changes.
Requirements:
* 3+ years relevant experience as a Financial Planning and Accounting or Manufacturing Cost Accountant position within a manufacturing environment or related field.
* Experience of assessing and implementing new systems and software to drive improvements and changes, knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles.
* Strong financial analysis skills, including experience with variance analysis, forecasting, and financial modelling.