Operations Financial Analyst

The Weir Group PLC

$75K — $95K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of finance experience in diverse roles such as commercial, cost accounting, and general finance.
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
  • Experience in a product-based business; manufacturing focus a plus.
  • Familiarity with SAP or large ERP systems.
  • Strong analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Enforce cost accounting principles and provide operational team training.
  • Analyze operational performance and engage with leadership for improvements.
  • Manage cost roll processes, assessing adjustments as needed.
  • Create standard operational KPI reports.
  • Provide financial analysis and recommendations for KPIs.
  • Oversee finance operations in budget and forecasting cycles.
  • Collaborate with supply chain leaders to refine inventory processes.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for career growth and the ability to tailor your own career path.
  • A focus on inclusivity and employee wellbeing, encouraging individual contributions.
  • Engagement in sustainability initiatives as part of a globally impactful organization.
Full Job Description
Manufacturing Operations Financial Analyst

Weir Minerals

Salt Lake City

Onsite

Purpose of Role: Will lead the Operational Finance for Salt Lake City and St. Louis and take overall responsibility for Financial Analytics, reporting operational performance, developing and ensuring compliance with costing policies, and cost accounting oversight while driving continuous improvement and efficiency in the business operations.

Key Responsibilities: Financial Analytics & Driving operational performance Improvements
  • Maintain and enforce the divisional cost accounting principles and policies, including training where necessary to ensure operational teams fully understand the principles and policies
  • Review, report and analyze operational performance of the Salt Lake City and St Louis businesses; with regular interaction with operations leaders to drive performance
  • Lead the cost roll process across the business, validating increases / decreases where required
  • Support development of standard operational KPI reports
  • Develop early warning, gap analysis and countermeasure recommendations for various operations financial KPIs.


Strategic operational initiatives and planning
  • Lead finance operations input into the annual budget and quarterly forecasting cycle - including assumptions on costs, recoveries and variances
  • Lead and drive inventory financial analytics / Annual inventory verification and work with Supply Chain leaders to improve processes
  • Provide proactive, reliable, and credible financial advice on a broad range of operational issues to key business partners
  • Develop and implement capital expenditure business cases to support investment decisions and priorities.
  • Ad-hoc operational finance projects as they arise
  • Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.


Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:
  • Previous Finance Experience in a Product Based Business
  • Large Manufacturing Based company is a Plus
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
  • At least 5 years finance experience (Several different Finance experiences) Commercial roles, Cost accounting roles and General Finance roles are a plus
  • Experience using SAP or Large ERP System


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