Operations Finance Analyst in Elkmont, Alabama at Electricfil Corporation

Job Duties:

1. ERP Governance & Accounting Compliance

• ERP Data Accuracy: Keep ERP data (BOMs, routings, work centers) accurate and aligned with what actually happens on the shop floor. Regularly review data, identify errors, and work with teams to correct them.
• Process Integrity: Ensure operational teams follow key processes (receiving, scrap reporting, production closing, etc.). When gaps exist, help design simple processes and make sure they’re followed to avoid financial errors

2. KPI & Operational Support

• KPI Ownership & Problem Solving: Monitor key performance indicators and make sure they are reliable. When results go off track, work directly with the teams to understand why and help drive corrective actions.
• CAPEX Tracking: Track investments from approval to completion. Ensure costs are correctly recorded and assets start depreciating at the right time
• Inventory Accuracy: Support inventory counts and investigate discrepancies. Work with the floor team to find root causes and prevent issues from happening again.

3. Financial Support & Analysis

• Forecast & Budget Support: Support the Finance Manager in building budgets and forecasts using operational data and realistic assumptions.
• Monthly Closing Support: Support the monthly financial closing process by preparing and reviewing journal entries and ensuring accurate cost allocation.
• Annual Audit Support: Assist with external and internal audits by preparing documentation, explaining processes, and ensuring data consistency between ERP and financial statements.
• Business Partnering: Help operations understand the financial impact of decisions. Provide quick analysis, cost breakdowns, and scenarios to support decision-making.
• Expenses Monitoring: Track and analyze non-production expenses. Identify unusual trends and opportunities to reduce unnecessary costs.
• Accounts Receivable (AR): Monitor customer payments, follow up on overdue invoices, and work with sales and customers to resolve disputes.

4. Margin Protection & RFQ Integrity

• Margin Monitoring: Track product margins and identify risks early (e.g., cost increases or inefficiencies). Provide analysis to support pricing or cost improvement actions.
• RFQ & Post-Launch Tracking: Support quoting by ensuring assumptions are accurate. After production starts, compare actual performance to initial estimates and highlight gaps.

Authority:

• All employees have a quality and safety responsibility; therefore, having the authority to stop work processes to correct quality and/or safety problems, or quarantine items in the appropriate designated area until the issues are resolved.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Individual will be held accountable for achieving defined Individual and Continuous Improvement objectives.
• The individual will be responsible for working effectively with other departments that need to be part of EFi Automotive, including involvement of finance department and management in Beynost, France.
• Participate in audits.
• To strictly adhere to Company Safety and other policies as documented in Electricfil Handbook.
• Adhere to and implement everything in his/her power to achieve the Quality, Safety, and Environmental objectives and reduce the environmental impacts related to the activity of Electricfil Corporation.