Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

GENERAL SUMMARY (Describe the overall duties and responsibilities of the job):

1. Responsible for the effective administration of Sanoh America’s plant financial reporting and budgets.
2. Responsible for setting costing standards and maintaining plant product costing in ERP system.
3. Variance analysis between Plan / Forecast and Actuals.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (Duties required for successful job performance):

1. Determines cost of operations by establishing standard costs.
2. Coordinate plant’s weekly and monthly forecasts by working with both Plant and Corporate personnel.
3. Identifies financial performance improvement potential by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
4. Improves financial status by analyzing results; monitoring variances; identifying trends; recommending actions to management.
5. Work with Cost Estimating to review New Business quotes and Engineering changes, when impacting the plant.
6. Increases productivity by developing automated applications; coordinating information requirements.
7. Directly assist plant management with the preparation of budgets and forecasts.
8. Works with the Finance team to complete the month close timely and accurately.

REQUIRED EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE (These are the traditional minimum, or required, bona-fide occupational qualifications and other requirements of most people in this job).

1. Bachelor’s Degree in an Accounting/Finance or related field, or equivalent experience
2. Minimum 5 years’ progressive accounting experience, with preference for automotive manufacturing

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES (Those needed to perform the essential functions of the job).

1. Effective organizational and time-management skills; Able to manage multiple projects and priorities
2. Effective written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills;
3. Intermediate MS-Office skills
4. Effective analytical / problem-solving skills
5. Ability to work with minimal supervision.

REQUIRED DECISION-MAKING AND ORGANIZATION IMPACT (Describe the typical types of decisions made by employees in this job and the likely impact of those decisions on the Company).

1. This position is responsible for ensuring correct product costing in ERP system. If this is done ineffectively, the results will be to not truly understand a particular parts profits / loss situation. This could lead to improper management decisions.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS (Indicate job titles for this job’s supervisor and direct reports).

1. This position reports to the Plant Manager
2. This position has no direct reports

WORKING CONDITIONS (Describe the environment within which the work is performed).

1. Office and plant work environment. A portion of this individuals time will be spent on the plant floor reviewing / analyzing manufacturing costs.
2. Occasional travel is possible, including overnight stays
3. Overtime of varying levels may be required for this position

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

1. Periodically may require long periods of keyboarding
2. May need to use stairs

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