Senior Financial Analyst

Job Summary

The Financial Analyst provides strategic and tactical financial planning and analytical support.

Benefits

At CalPortland, we’re proud to offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package that provides health and financial support to our most important resources: our employees.  Your benefits are an important part of your overall compensation at CalPortland. That’s why we give you a wide range of benefits to choose from.  All regular full time employees may enroll in a variety of health and welfare plans including medical, dental and vision plans.  Other benefits include life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, and retirement program.  The company also has a variety of voluntary benefits for employees to choose from.

Compensation

$90,000-$110,000 DOE 

Responsibilities

• Corporate policies/guidelines and accounting close calendar
• Ensure accuracy of physical inventories in relation to books of record
• Evaluate cost of sales and inventory valuation, internal and external pricing, and profitability of materials movements
• Monthly evaluation and reconciliation of general ledger accounts relating to plant/operating unit performance, inventory valuation and balance transfers
• Develop monthly product costing
• Perform periodic cost modeling for new and changed materials, and periodic revaluations
• Must have familiarity with standard costing concepts and analysis of variances generated
• Develop and support internal performance metrics
• Prepare reports for internal management
• Evaluate the optimal handling of material movements
• Coordinate obtaining business driver information from operating units and convert data into resulting financial costs and financial performance
• Develop standards through knowledge of SAP modules and processes
• Track and report on status and completion of approved capital budget objectives
• Perform regular and ad-hoc evaluations of present and expected financial performance
• Responsible for JSOX compliance on the P&L side
• Gather, interpret and support various financial data
• Maintain and develop internal audit team controls and evaluations to ensure operating units are performing within established guidelines
• Must navigate through multi-faceted transactions and evaluate the appropriate disposition of results from various SAP modules

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business

Requirements/Qualifications

• Knowledge of business functionality and accounting standards
• 3-5 years of experience in an accounting and/or financial planning department
• Familiarity with SAP
• Experience integrating understanding of automated and manual processes
• Experience recommending and implementing process efficiency improvements
• Strong PC skills and Microsoft Office products
• Extreme proficiency in Excel 
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• High degree of accuracy and detail-orientation
• Ability to work well in cross-functional work teams

Preferred:

MBA or CPA

Conditions of Employment

Successful candidate must submit to post-offer pre-employment physical examination, drug/alcohol screen, and background check. Some positions require FMCSA regulated on-going drug and alcohol testing.

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