Senior Financial Analyst - Sylmar, United States - PPG Industries

Description

As Senior Financial Analyst, Sylmar and Mojave, you will support two Aerospace plant sites and will be a critical member of the plant leadership teams, contributing to and leading performance improvement initiatives at the facilities. Through detailed and insightful analytics, you will help to identify areas of focus for productivity and cost improvement and will work cross functionally to ensure alignment, engagement and progress toward clearly defined project goals and deliverables.

You will report to the Operations Accounting Manager, Aerospace, who is located in the GBFS headquarters in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. You will be onsite five days a week split between the Sylmar, CA and Mojave, CA manufacturing plants.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in plant meetings to provide insight on results, collect information and challenge performance.
• Support and/ or lead plant initiatives to control costs of production.
• Focus on and improve productivity through analytics and projects including scrap, productivity, capacity utilization and addressing bottle necks.
• Push relevant information and analytics to guide local decision-making.
• Support the generation, analysis and explain the drivers for local and business unit KPIs.
• Work with Operations Accounting to provide variance analysis and full understanding of plant level results.
• Partner with the Operations Supervisor and Analyst in the plant wide budget process coordinating all departments and advocating productivity and cost savings initiatives and targets.
• Partner with the Operations Supervisor and Analyst in developing short- and long-term reliable estimates of the level of expense to be incurred by the plant related to expected volumes.
• Complete month end closing activities such as calculation or approval of journal entries, review of account balances and explanation and presentation of results to business unit finance.
• Work with the plant leadership team to develop and execute a strategic roadmap for capital spending; ensure most critical projects are completed on time, on budget and are embedded in plans.
• Conduct post-completion analysis of critical investments (capital or otherwise) to ensure key deliverables - both financial and operational - are met.
• Work with demand and supply teams to ensure visibility and optimize inventory health in raw materials, WIP, and finished goods .
• Support Operations Accounting and Plant Operations team as the on-site liaison to optimize inventory.
• Ensure inventory accuracy and drive improvement around excess and obsolete inventory and scrap.
• Work with the Operations Supervisor and Analyst to ensure that product costing reflects plant operations at a product level.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field with 6 or more years of experience.
• Prior cost accounting or manufacturing financial support experience required.
• Travel 2-3 times per year to the Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania location.

Benefits: health/dental/vision/life insurance, 401K, PTO and more #LI-Onsite

The base salary range for this position is $90,000- $100,000.

PPG pay ranges and benefits can vary by location which allows us to compensate employees competitively in different geographic markets. PPG considers several factors in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, qualifications and education, licensure and certifications, and other organizational needs. Other incentives may apply.

Our employee benefits programs are designed to support the health and well-being of our employees. Any insurance coverages and benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.