Manufacturing Finance Analyst

Manufacturing Finance Analyst Weir Minerals Salt Lake City Onsite Purpose of Role: Will lead the Operational Finance for Salt Lake City and St. Louis and take overall responsibility for Financial Analytics, reporting operational performance, developing and ensuring compliance with costing policies, and cost accounting oversight while driving continuous improvement and efficiency in the business operations. Why choose Weir: Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it is exciting. An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives. Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do. Key Responsibilities: Financial Analytics & Driving operational performance Improvements Maintain and enforce the divisional cost accounting principles and policies, including training where necessary to ensure operational teams fully understand the principles and policies Review, report and analyze operational performance of the Salt Lake City and St Louis businesses; with regular interaction with operations leaders to drive performance Lead the cost roll process across the business, validating increases / decreases where required Support development of standard operational KPI reports Develop early warning, gap analysis and countermeasure recommendations for various operations financial KPIs. Strategic operational initiatives and planning Lead finance operations input into the annual budget and quarterly forecasting cycle – including assumptions on costs, recoveries and variances Lead and drive inventory financial analytics / Annual inventory verification and work with Supply Chain leaders to improve processes Provide proactive, reliable, and credible financial advice on a broad range of operational issues to key business partners Develop and implement capital expenditure business cases to support investment decisions and priorities. Ad-hoc operational finance projects as they arise Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture. Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications: Previous Finance Experience in a Product Based Business Large Manufacturing Based company is a Plus Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance At least 5 years finance experience (Several different Finance experiences) Commercial roles, Cost accounting roles and General Finance roles are a plus Experience using SAP or Large ERP System Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives. For additional information about what it is like to work at Weir, please visit our Career Page and LinkedIn Life Page. #LI-JB1 #Minerals We are Weir. And the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing. Quickly adapting. Continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each and every one of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it’s exciting. And it’s one we can’t wait to be part of. Thank you for your interest in joining us. Apply tot his job