Plant Accountant

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Plant Accountant

Req Id: 713

Country/Region: United States

Job Location: Norwalk

Job Category: Accounting

Workplace Type: On-site

Employment Type: Permanent

Job type: Full-Time

Autoneum is globally leading in acoustic and thermal management for light and commercial vehicles. The Company develops and produces multifunctional, lightweight and sustainable components and systems for interior floor, interior trim as well as engine bay and underbody. Customers include almost all automobile manufacturers in Europe, North & South America, Asia and Africa. The Company with its head-quarters in Winterthur, Switzerland, is listed on the SIX Swiss Ex-change (ticker symbol AUTN).

Summary

Responsible for partnering with plant management to improve financial performance through accounting, reporting, analysis, and financial planning activities. Supports monthly close, budgeting, forecasting, inventory accounting, and cost accounting processes while maintaining standard costing systems and ensuring accurate financial reporting. Utilizes SAP (FI/CO), HFM, and ERP/GL systems to deliver reliable financial information, support business decisions, and help achieve company financial objectives.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Product and Process Costing (2 sites)

• Responsible for the cost accounting module in SAP. This includes staging materials (new part setup/updates) and working with cross functional teams to ensure accurate material inventory records and financial valuations.
• Develop and maintain a cost analysis system using standard costing, reporting variances monthly.
• Calculate overhead rates, labor rates, and machine rates to cost at a product level.
• Support product profitability reporting with plant costing information and advisement.

Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis (small, light assembly site)

• Support monthly close accounting (SAP) and reporting (HFM) processes, WD1 through WD3.
• Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial analysis.
• Monitor and report selected variance accounts, determine root cause, and collaborate with Plant Management to take corrective actions.
• Analyze plant financial results and explain production, labor, material, and overhead variances compared to budget and forecast.
• Provide support to ensure the accuracy of cost center allocations.
• Validate and track savings initiatives and productivity projects.
• Support monthly forecast process (HFM).
• Support preparation of annual budgets (HFM) by establishing schedules, collecting, analyzing, and consolidating financial data, and recommending plans.

Inventory & Materials Analysis (2 sites)

• Prepare special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends as needed.
• Perform BOM audits, ensuring the integrity of all product costing.
• Prepare reports for material usage.
• Report and monitor inventory monthly.
• Prepare inventory reserve analysis and book adjusting entries.
• Produce stock reports by site monthly.
• Reconcile intercompany material purchase accounts.
• Participate in annual physical inventory counts and test cycle count processes.
• Conduct GR/IR (Goods Receipt Invoice Received) account research and validation.

General Accounting

• Process vendor invoices daily in VIM (Vendor Invoice Management System), following up with management teams to ensure receipt verification and/or price validity checks are completed.
• Resolve and prevent issues related to incorrect receiving, incorrect purchase orders/requisitions, and incorrect invoices by contacting plants and vendors.
• Facilitate weekly customer chargeback follow-up and OEM dispute reporting.
• Prepare SAP sales orders (SSOs) to correspond with customer chargeback deductions in coordination with Logistics and Quality teams on resolution.

Other

• Comply with Federal, State, and Local legal and statutory requirements.
• Protect operations by keeping financial information and plans confidential.
• Facilitate cross-functional change management projects as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong leadership and problem-solving skills with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented self-starter with exceptional follow-through and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to work effectively both independently and within a team environment.

Required Education/Experience

• Associate or bachelor's degree in accounting or equivalent from an accredited college or technical school preferred.
• Three or more years of financial planning experience.
• Three or more years of standard cost accounting experience.
• Three or more years of management reporting experience.
• Experience in manufacturing environments.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with enterprise financial reporting systems (HFM, etc.).
• Experience with enterprise general ledger and ERP systems (SAP, etc.).
• Experience with SAP implementation of the CO module.
• Ability to understand and work with foreign exchange (FX) conversions.

Language Ability

• Solid verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret financial reports, business correspondence, policies, procedures, and technical documents.
• Ability to prepare clear and concise reports, correspondence, and presentations.
• Ability to effectively communicate with employees at all levels of the organization, vendors, customers, and external auditors.

Math Ability

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, and percentages.

Reasoning Ability

• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Analytical thinker with effective problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrates sound judgment in balancing information sharing with confidentiality requirements.

Computer Skills

• Microsoft Office.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills, including model development for financial planning and analysis.
• SAP experience or equivalent integrated ERP/GL system preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Regularly required to sit for extended periods while performing computer-based work.
• Regular use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, calculator, telephone, copier, and other standard office equipment.
• Must be able to communicate effectively in person, by telephone, and through electronic communications.
• Occasionally required to bend, stoop, reach, and lift or carry items weighing up to 20 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus for detailed financial and computer work.
• Must be able to safely access and navigate production floor areas to support accounting activities, inventory verification, audits, and operational reviews.
• Exposure to manufacturing environments may include loud noise, moving machinery, and forklift traffic.
• Required personal protective equipment (PPE) must be worn when entering designated production areas.

Are you excited to work in a global and multi-cultural work environment and are you looking for an inspiring and engaging workplace? Then we are looking forward to receiving your application.

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