Job Purpose
Powerex is looking for a Financial Analyst with Cost Accounting experience. This role plays a key part in improving business performance in our Nashville-area facility. Ensures timely completion of all cost and management accounting functions as well as performing analyses to support good decision-making. We are looking for a levelheaded accountant that will serve as a key member of our Mt. Juliet leadership team. We want someone who is ambitious and wants to grow in experience and responsibility.
Key Job Functions/Duties
- Provide monthly reporting and analytics for the Industrial Business Unit
- Assist in the closing month, quarter, and annual financial periods
- Work on teams to simplify business and manufacturing processes
- Assist operations with annual project and expense budgets
- Support capital and cost-reduction project tracking
- Conduct the annual overhead allocation study
- Review the bill of materials for issues or errors
- Review material, labor, and overhead variances
- Complete cost rolls for new items as needed and annually for existing items
- Help to ensure the material, labor, and overhead cost of goods sold are accurate
- Work with local factory leadership to plan and facilitate physical inventories
- Monitor and report on scrap transactions
- Track and report on other inventory adjustments
- Reconcile book to perpetual and book to physical inventories
- Act as a backup to the Accounting Supervisor in the Cincinnati headquarters
- Update and send out daily production report
- Complete journal entries related to inventory, inventory reserves, and cost of goods sold
Knowledge, Skills, & Experience Required
- BS Degree in Accounting, or other comparable business degree, required with 3-7 years accounting experience preferably in a manufacturing environment
- Should possess a complete understanding of the accounting process and how the income statement and balance sheet interrelate. Should also possess a basic understanding of the business cycle and how various business processes effect income and balance sheet items
- Strong interpersonal skills to interact with people at all levels
- Must have strong computer skills and the ability to create models for analysis and simulation
- ERP experience required; INFOR-CSI or SyteLine (our ERP system) would be a plus.
