Financial Analyst III

Title: Financial Analyst III

Duration: 12 months contract

Location: Princeton, NJ 08540

Shift time: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm

Job description:

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Provide cost planning, analysis, and reporting to senior leadership for the Princeton manufacturing site.

• Conduct cost accounting and analysis including purchase price variance, overhead spending analysis, freight and distribution expense, inventory management, and capital spending.

• Utilize systems including TM1 and ERP (system with detailed transactions) to analyze actuals and investigate variances.

• Prepare accounting journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and monthly reporting packages to Finance and Business leadership.

• Apply GAAP rules to properly record accounting records and be able to guide and explain to senior leadership.

• Identify improvement areas and actively work with Finance and IT to gain efficiency.

• Work with Corporate Finance Shared Service and Division Finance Teams to support ad-hoc requests.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting.

• Strong Accounting background.

• Strong analytical skills to provide data and analysis to support decision making.

• Demonstrated experience in financial and variance analysis working with financial system applications.

• Highly skilled in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.

• 2-5 years of finance experience in a large public company to include roles of increasing responsibility in accounting and/or finance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience performing cost analysis.

• Manufacturing/Supply Chain experience preferred.

• Previous experience working in a matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.

• • Working knowledge of TM1, SAP, Oracle, or MRP system in multimillion dollar companies.