The Role:
A Manufacturing, Performance Improvement Analyst identifies and acts on financial opportunities across manufacturing sites. The role involves building relationships, creating unique analyses, and supporting creative thinking. Success means communizing tools, finding new cost-saving approaches, and acting on financial opportunities
What You’ll Do (Responsibilities):
- Build relationships and collaborate with over 100 plant analysts and managers.
- Develop new ways to analyze operations and identify cost-saving ideas.
- Standardize tools and processes to make work more effective.
- Create presentations for senior leaders to explain issues and opportunities.
- Report on important initiatives and support plant teams with key projects.
- Help with headcount savings and understand how staffing changes affect results.
- Develop tools to better understand outside services and their value.
- Work with HR, Continuous Improvement, and other teams to streamline financial reporting.
- Provide timely, relevant data to help leaders make good decisions.
- Make sure systems and tools are optimized for financial results.
- Lead the development of new forecasting and tracking tools.
- Contribute to special projects, like tariff planning and global tracking.
Your Skills and Abilities (Minimum Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Finance, Accounting, or Manufacturing Operations.
- Strong financial analysis and modeling skills.
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):
- Manufacturing experience.
- Experience with Hyperion, SAP, or similar systems.
- Curiosity and creative problem-solving.
- Ability to present complex data clearly to senior leaders.
- Persistence in improving processes.
- Strong organizational and relationship-building skills.
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