Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American food company formed by the merger of client Food and the third-largest food and beverage company in North America
Position: Senior Financial Analyst
Location: Massillon, OH, 44647
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
Must Haves:
- Variance analysis on process orders, daily/weekly reporting
- Very critical
- Advanced Excel, 3-4 years forecasting experience
Manufacturing at a Glance
- Under the leadership of the Plant Controller, this role drives the financial planning and reporting processes for one of the operating units at the plant. The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for ensuring the integrity of financial policies, strengthening internal controls, supporting operating budgets, and delivering accurate forecasting and performance reporting. As a key partner in the plant's financial success, this position requires strong accountability, analytical insight, and a commitment to closing performance gaps to achieve results.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development of the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), including product cost standards updates (raw and pack yields, master recipes), bridging cost changes, and preparing all applicable AOP schedules
- Manage weekly and monthly cost reporting, including actual vs. forecasted results and distribution of reports to unit and plant manufacturing management
- Analyze and interpret variance to target for direct expenses; provide detailed reporting and KPI breakdown to plant leadership
- Identify and lead process improvements in financial planning and reporting systems
- Partner with Continuous Improvement and Production teams to quantify and track savings, ensuring accuracy within 4Site systems
- Drive the month-end close process, including journal entries, SAP requirements, FAC review, and preparation of insightful variance commentary
- Perform financial analyses and scenario studies to support decision-making
- Oversee and audit operational BOM accuracy throughout the year
- Actively contribute to the plant leadership team, offering training and support on financial information and business results
- Maintain strong internal controls aligned with corporate and compliance standards, ensuring effective inventory management
- Provide leadership for financial integrity, transactional accuracy, and SAP responsibilities on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, or related field; CPA, CMA, or MBA preferred
- 3+ years of experience in financial analysis or manufacturing finance within a plant or supply chain environment
- Proven ability to manage financial planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles
- Advanced proficiency in SAP, Excel, and financial modeling tools; experience with 4Site is a plus
- Strong understanding of cost accounting principles and variance analysis
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret data trends and translate insights into actionable recommendations
- Effective communicator who can influence cross-functional leaders and present complex concepts clearly
- Demonstrated ability to act with urgency, ownership, and integrity in a fast-paced manufacturing setting
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Massillon, OH |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $32 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Accountingunmatched
- Accounting Closeunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Bill of Materials (BOM)unmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Business Administrationunmatched
- Certified Management Accountant (CMA)unmatched
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)unmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Corporate Complianceunmatched
- Cost Accountingunmatched
- Cost Reportingunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Decision Supportunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Financeunmatched
- Financial Analysisunmatched
- Financial Controlunmatched
- Financial Managementunmatched
- Financial Modelingunmatched
- Financial Planningunmatched
- Financial Policiesunmatched
- Financial Reportingunmatched
- Financial Transactionsunmatched
- Food and Beverage Industryunmatched
- Forecastingunmatched
- Inventory Managementunmatched
- Journal Entriesunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Managementunmatched
- Operational Auditunmatched
- Order Processingunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Costingunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Reporting Skillsunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Training/Teachingunmatched
- Variance Analysisunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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