Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance to GAAP and GE policy to ensure reporting integrity, safeguard company assets, and identify risks
• Own all site finance activities, including financial planning, forecasting, variance analysis, month-end closing activities, and routine and ad-hoc analytics
• Accountable to drive operations team meet the plant productivity targets or overall cost-out
• Own P&L and balance sheet activities, with a focus on cost, inventory, and P&E.  This includes part cost analysis and tracking, monitoring cost accounting, inventory controls, COGS reporting, functional costs, productivity, P&E, etc.
• Provide proactive/ unsolicited guidance, interpretation, and education of complex financial and operational matters to functional and site leadership to drive business decisions
• Collaborate with Plant Manager and site leadership to explain results, make improvements, manage projects, identify inefficiencies, understand operations, and drive lean transformation
• Support government requests such as Forward Pricing Rate Modelling & audits if required
• Must work across organizational and site functions to achieve site objectives.  Must communicate solutions across own function with impact on other functions
• Lead sub-business or regional teams working on strategic functional initiatives

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 6 years of experience in Finance)
• 5+ years of experience in related finance or cost accounting
• 5+ years of financial planning, reporting and variance analysis experience

Desired Characteristics

• Operational finance acumen
• Intellectual leadership
• CPA, CMA or MBA a plus
• Ability to balance recurring and ad-hoc requests from site and function
• Strong communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to identify, analyze, and resolve problems
• Prior experience working at a manufacturing site or in a centralized cost role
• Inclusive with the ability to build a connection with the site through personal involvement and trust
• Expert proficiency in Excel, Word, and Power Point