This role’s primary responsibility will be as a strategic business partner for departmental and senior leaders in the management of their monthly expenses, and to ensure they execute within their annual budget targets. Other responsibilities will include ongoing financial analysis and monthly financial reporting, supporting product costing and improving costing accuracy, actively participating in the annual budget process, and supporting the company's product development and business development activities. This high-visibility, high-growth role will work as a member of a cross-functional finance organization

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Perform data stewardship in support of the Operations and Quality business units, including but not limited to:
• Maintain and publish daily and weekly production dashboards reflecting production units, production yields, earned standard hours and overhead cost absorption.
• Provide next-level intelligence by performing monthly data mining in critical areas such as manufacturing scrap, excess and obsolete inventory, PPV, MUV and other manufacturing variances.
• Compile and publish weekly and monthly labor hour metrics, providing department leaders with actionable data to manage and improve labor utilization and labor productivity.
• Compile and publish enriched data sets to provide department leaders with detailed department spend (encompassing vendors, materials, headcount and related payroll metrics).
• Maintain master files used by Operations Finance for monthly cost performance analysis, monthly department reviews, and monthly headcount and payroll discussions.
• Compile and publish monthly inventory balances used for analysis, internal reporting, and monthly forecasting.
• Participate in the annual budgeting cycle, leveraging monthly cost forecasts to inform budget targets, identify one-time expenses, and communicate cost savings opportunities.
• Perform monthly margin analysis, disaggregating and reporting all aspects of our Cost of Sales, to include
• Performing monthly price-volume-mix analysis for sales and standard product costs and margins;
• Analyzing, understanding and communicating manufacturing variances, including but not limited to material and labor variances, cost absorption (over)/under, labor productivity, and PPV;
• Analyzing, understanding and communicating product-level profitability;
• Analyzing, understanding and communicating our variable manufacturing costs and contribution margin performance;
• Analyzing, understanding and communicating our fixed overhead costs to inform our understanding of our operational leverage.
• Partner with Supply Chain to identify slow-moving, excess and obsolete stock, working to optimize our safety stock levels while minimizing non-critical inventory items.
• Perform ongoing costing analysis, partnering with Manufacturing to ensure the accuracy of our BOMs, Routings and standard product costing.
• Identify opportunities for automation and productivity gains.
• Perform ad-hoc data mining as needed.
• Perform ad-hoc financial and business case modeling as needed.

Top Skills Details:

• manufacturing industry
• Financial analysis
• Financial reporting
• business partnering
• bill of material
• variance analysis
• microsoft excel

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• 3+ years in FP&A with at least 2 recent years in manufacturing industry
• Inside expert in manufacturing costing/cost accounting as it pertains to manufacturing
• Lead strategic conversations with partners
• Understand manufacturing variances (can be 10-15 variables making large number change- monthly review takes 3-4 days to get through)
• Business Partner experience- can work with people outside of finance
• Strong Communication- look at a data set and tell the story, and make recommendations
• High Excel Skills- does not have time to train on formulas (creating, maintaining, LOOKUP Tables, knows how to automate something that is repeatable)

About Aston Carter:

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® double diamond winner for both client and talent service.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Aston Carter, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:

• Hiring diverse talent
• Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection
• Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes
• Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email astoncarteraccommodation@astoncarter.com for other accommodation options.