What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Operations Finance Analyst position at Current Lighting?
The role manages the consolidation, reporting, and budgeting of the Operations functions of the business including Procurement, Distribution, Logistics, and Program cost savings. This position is located at Current's Beachwood, OH office. This role requires 4 days a week in the office with 1 day remote.
The responsibilities of this role include:
- Partnering with operations at both the plant and distribution center level
- Perform month end closing activities (including journal entry preparation) and reporting for the Regional distribution centers, Shipping, and Customs
- Presentation of distribution center reporting to senior leadership
- Provide procurement cost reporting and analysis, to include purchase price variance, inbound/outbound freight variance, and duties
- Partnering with Logistics team to understand drivers of freight spend, variances to Plan, and forward-looking forecasting
- Ongoing analysis and support of the organization’s Total Cost Out (TCO) savings opportunities
- Lead the budgeting and forecasting process for distribution centers and Supply Chain purchase variances
- Implement and manage standard month-end CAPEX reporting and communication of payment forecasting with Treasury
- Support for Supply Chain leadership in maintenance of monthly Operations Deck
Qualifications
- Minimum 7 years of experience in a manufacturing setting, with combination of Cost Accounting and Financial Analyst background
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- Supply Chain Finance experience desirable.
- Significant analytical and quantitative skill set.
- Strong decision-making, multi-tasking, and execution abilities under tight deadlines.
- Experience with SAP preferable, and MS Office (or equivalents) desirable.
- Demonstrated success working among cross-functional teams in a manufacturing environment
Critical Skill requirements:
- SAP Experience
- Operational / Managerial Accounting
- Communication