Financial Reporting Accountant jobs in Detroit, MI

Primary Function:

The Finance Manager, Costing & Reporting should be detail-oriented and have a highly analytical mind. This position works closely with the Director of FP&A, the SVP of Operations and VP of Logistics to analyze, report and forecast DC and freight costs. You will be responsible for weekly, monthly and quarterly cost reporting and identifying areas of Risk and Opportunity to budget and latest plan.

Values:

To perform the job successfully, the incumbent’s behavior must be consistent with the PRIDE values expected of all Mastronardi Produce employees: be Passionate; have Respect; be Innovative; be Driven and strive for Excellence.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support continued automation in the company’s reporting, with a focus on reducing the amount of time

spent by the Finance Analytics team in data mining, data massaging, and data formatting.

• Be an integral part of the development of the “real-time” costing reporting.
• Central role in support customer contract bid & negotiations.
• Ensuring all operational cost reporting is accurate.
• Construct data accumulation systems for a cost accounting system and create and review the controls needed for analysis and reporting systems.
• Conduct ongoing process constraint analyses.
• Report on product cost by SKU.
• Report on periodic variances and their causes.
• Responsible for the accuracy and execution of weekly, month, quarterly and annual Executive reporting.
• Update costs in the bill of materials.
• Development and review of SOPs for reporting and transaction processing.
• Central Role to Budgeting Overhead & Labor rates
• Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles and core to this will be our annual budgeting process.
• Analyze the viability of new product introduction.
• Communicate Effectively, across, up, and down the organization.
• Data Mining, Data Visualization, and Data Reporting while adhering to strict data quality and accounting principles.

Education/Background Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business and/or analytics
• Five years of experience in finance, costing, forecasting and business planning required

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Deep experience working with Business Intelligence tools to report financial and operational results.
• Solutions focused with strong analytic and creative thinking skills with a relentless drive for results.
• Ability to think critically and strategically.
• Resourcefulness, proven interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a diverse environment with sensitivity and respect.
• Participate in multiple projects and tasks, with constantly changing priorities and evolving issues.
• Ability to deal with sensitive and confidential issues with discretion.
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, to a variety of audiences.
• Proactively manage conflict in sensitive situations.
• Ability to work independently and self-starter.
• Experience working with middle and senior level management in support of achieving their goals.
• Strong computer skills (Excel modelling, Power Point presentations).
• A strong desire to learn and to continuously improve.
• A strong preference for commodity and/or category management experience.
• Attention to detail and highly organized.
• Strong business acumen and analytical mind, and ability to address opportunities and create the story.
• Willing to work with vast types of data.
• Adaptive personality that can deal with ambiguity.
• A strong customer service mindset, as the sales and commodity teams are the analysts’ main “customers”.
• Experience with ERPs (preferably MS Navision), Advanced Excel and Database skills (SQL, MS Access, JET reporting or other), exposure to Business Intelligence Tools (Anaplan, Targit).

Working Conditions:

• Typical office environment but is expected to be highly familiar with all production operations, and to regularly visit all significant company operations. Environment includes an expansive refrigerated warehouse, where the temperature averages a constant 55 degrees (except office areas).
• Needs to go to the Kingsville, ON, office on a periodic basis; therefore, needs a valid passport.