Job OverviewAs an Assembly Financial Analyst, you'll play a key role in helping our manufacturing operations make smart, data-driven decisions. Partnering closely with the Senior Finance Manager for the Wood Value Stream, you'll support the financial health of our Warroad, MN, and Grafton, ND, (Ultimate Windows) plants by providing insights that drive performance, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
In this role, you'll dig into the numbers behind the operation-analyzing labor, material, and overhead spending, identifying trends, and helping leaders understand what's driving results. You'll contribute to budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting while ensuring company policies are followed for capital purchases, materials, and other expenditures.
You'll also have a direct impact on cost-saving initiatives, with a strong focus on scrap reduction, operational efficiency, and uncovering opportunities to improve profitability. If you enjoy turning data into actionable insights and working closely with operations teams to solve business challenges, this is a great opportunity to make a visible impact in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Highlights of your role- Provide appropriate reporting and analysis of material, overhead and labor variances at the departmental and product level
- Drive corrective action with departments as needed to adhere to budgetary and performance goals
- Audit Bills of Material and labor routings to assure proper inventory and costing transactions
- Assist in the monitoring of inventory accuracy for both cost and quantity
- Facilitate annual budgeting process
- Develop product costs for new products and changes to existing products
- Facilitate monthly financial reviews and reporting with appropriate managers to review performance to plan
- Work on special projects as assigned
You're a good fit if you have (or if you can)- Effective communication, time management & presentation skills
- Ability to procure and organize data to provide meaningful information
- Ability to plan, facilitate and lead meetings
- Ability to travel a minimum of once a quarter to Grafton, ND
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Exposure to Smartsheet, Qlik, and other BI tools preferred
- Bachelor's degree in accounting / finance or related
- 2 - 6 years accounting experience in a manufacturing environment
- Public Accounting experience a plus.
Compensation$68,600 -$91,500 annually
