Senior Cost Accountant / Manufacturing Financial Analyst

Trew is a dynamic company in the distribution and fulfillment material-handling market, with uncommonly smart solutions that help our clients thrive. The Cost Accountant/Manufacturing Financial Analyst plays a key role in supporting the financial planning and analysis functions within the manufacturing operations. This position involves analyzing financial data, preparing annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and providing insights to support decision-making. The Manufacturing Financial Analyst collaborates cross­ functionally to ensure effective cost management and financial performance within the manufacturing operations. Additionally, the Analyst will be responsible for Standard Costing for the inputs and outputs of this and associated operations.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Develop budgets by cost driver, track cost against that budget, analyze variances, and prepare monthly progress reports and updated forecasts of project EAC. 

• Create monthly operational and management reporting package in Excel, to analyze and understand financial results, both against budget and against rolling forecasts.

• Create and subsequently monitor standard costs by product line.

• Analyze manufacturing variances such as purchase price variance and work order variance

• Assist in month and year end closing activities.

• Help lead the annual physical inventory counts. 

• Develop standard labor and overhead absorption rates (fixed, semi-variable, and variable) for the following operations: Laser­ cutting, Metal Forming, Powder Painting, Sub-Assembly, Final Assembly. 

• Perform make vs buy analysis, to include all variables, including administrative costs, up to point of use.

• Appropriately account for fixed assets ensuring that what can be capitalized is, and is assigned the appropriate useful lives and salvage values.

• Working with Engineering and Induction, ensure that the items planned for production in this factory are fully and properly loaded into NetSuite, such that the standard cost of each item is appropriate.

• Monitor the results of inventory cycle counts

• Be the go-to resource for all accounting, cost accounting, and financial analysis issues for manufacturing.

• Be a business partner with the manufacturing and sourcing teams.

Required Skills/ Abilities

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with attention to detail.

• Experience with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems.

• Proficiency in financial modeling and analysis tools.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

• Competency deploying manufacturing cost accounting principles.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

• Passion to meet your internal customers' needs and excel at doing so.

• Creative problem-solving and continuous improvement

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field.

• Proven experience as a Financial Analyst, preferably in a manufacturing environment.

TREW's story:

Business gets done working together. Successful business happens when trusted partners work together, to win together. At TREW we know that our customers buy solutions and technology built by people. With over 400 team members, we work fearlessly every day to do the right thing, even when no one is watching. From seasoned professionals to undergraduate co-ops, our team members enjoy seeing the impact of their contributions every day.

Trew and its companies are an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, ajfectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status.