Financial Analyst - Cost Accounting

Financial Analyst – Cost Accounting

Our work is guided by our purpose: creating an energy-resilient world for a better future. This purpose embodies the legacy we bring, with more than 100 years as the global leader in energy resilience, delivering solutions critical to sustain and improve life.

Our teams have the opportunity to provide a critical resource – energy – that ensures safety, security, and independence for people around the world. Our team members are focused on pushing boundaries, continuing to innovate in an ever-changing landscape, and keeping up with the pace required to create solutions for today's world demands.

Our product range includes engines, generators, power conversion, UPS systems, EV components and electrification solutions, microgrid controls and management, and clean energy solutions that serve a broad spectrum of OEM, residential, industrial, and commercial customers. At Rehlko, you have the freedom to identify, create, and deliver solutions – large and small – that help people and communities thrive in the moments that matter.

At Rehlko, our team members are the essential energy that powers our organization's success. We are committed to fostering a safe and sustainable work environment where safety is everyone's responsibility. We empower every team member to actively participate in our Zero Is Possible safety culture by encouraging open communication, proactively reporting hazards, following protocols, and suggesting improvements. Join us in creating an energy resilient world for a better future!

At Rehlko, our Total Rewards programs are designed to accelerate growth, energize performance, and support a culture of inclusion at every stage of life and work. We offer total rewards that are easily understood, recognize results, enable career mobility, and reflect our commitment to valuing diverse needs in a fast-moving world. We provide:

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Work-life flexibility
• Recognition and rewards
• Development and career opportunities
• A safe and inclusive workplace

Why You Will Love this Job

The Financial Analyst – Cost Accounting supports product costing, financial analysis, and accounting control for the Engines business. You'll partner with Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Finance to drive cost transparency and operational decision-making across multiple manufacturing locations. Open to candidates across experience levels.

This role is hybrid-eligible, with primary locations in Kohler, WI and Milwaukee, WI.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and analyze standard costs using cross-functional inputs.
• Review Bills of Material, routings, and material master data to ensure accurate product costs.
• Create and maintain Accounting and Costing views in SAP for new and existing materials.
• Load annual purchase standards, tariffs, freight, and surcharges across assigned plants.

Cost Runs & Variance Analysis

• Coordinate and execute annual standard cost runs (baseline, purchase, BOM change, activity rate).
• Analyze cost changes and communicate impacts to Finance and Operations leadership.

Financial Close & Reporting

• Support monthly close activities including journal entries, SAP data extraction, and reconciliations.
• Compile and distribute recurring reports covering inventory, productivity, and finished goods.

Inventory & Operational Support

• Prepare global inventory status, excess & obsolete, and in-transit inventory reports.
• Resolve invoice posting issues and support quality/blocked inventory reporting.

Cross-Functional & Administrative Support

• Provide backup support across the finance team and assist with ad-hoc projects as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 0–5 years of experience in cost accounting or manufacturing finance.
• Foundational knowledge of cost accounting, inventory accounting, or variance analysis (coursework or internship counts).
• Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, basic financial modeling).
• Familiarity with ERP systems; SAP exposure a plus.

The Salary range for this position is $62,350.00-$93,550.00. The specific Salary rate offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's experience, their education, and the work location.

Rehlko proudly offers a rich history steeped in creativity and commitment to our associates and communities, along with competitive benefits and compensation. Our Purpose—Creating an energy resilient world for a better future—and Values: Curiosity, Trust, Pace, and Excellence, are important cultural components that shape the way we work and relate to one another.

Rehlko is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination and will make decisions regarding employment opportunities, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination, without regard to race, creed, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, genetic information, age, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, caste, mental or physical disability, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, political belief or affiliation, union membership status, military status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national, state, local, or other applicable laws.

It is the policy of Rehlko to comply with all applicable provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and corresponding national, state, local, or other applicable laws. Rehlko will not discriminate against any qualified associate or applicant with respect to any terms, privileges, or conditions of employment because of a person's physical or mental disability. Rehlko will provide a reasonable accommodation to associates or applicants with disabilities, in accordance with applicable laws.

Our Values

Curiosity – Seek, learn, share

Trust – Go farther together

Pace – Focus to go faster

Excellence – Find the win every day