Analyst, Financial

**LOCATION**:Acuna / Coahuila (MX-COA), Mexico |
**BRAND**: Bendix |
**REQUISITION ID**:4049 |
** JOB GRADE**: 16

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:
**Position Summary**:
Responsible for, reporting financial status by preparing and analyzing financial plans, forecasts and reports expense.

**Essential Functions**:

- Prepare, coordinate and review various aspects of the annual and monthly financial forecasts including sales/margin, departmental and capital budgets.
- Prepare, coordinate and review financial forecasts
- Control of and forecasting of capital expenditures and assets
- Analyzing, documenting, and improving financial processes
- Analyze, identify and communicate risks and opportunities in a timely manner
- Provide structured and ad hoc reporting and support to various groups including, FP&A, business units, the Acuña Leadership team
- Prepare various monthly presentation packages for management reviews
- Assist in identifying, evaluating and implementing process improvements as needed
- Cost accounting analysis
- Financial analysis of general ledger
- Commitment control - Expenses Commitment controls of purchases reconciled with forecasts and actuals
- Attend staff meetings - Represent the Finance Department. Especially in US Finance activities
- Perform ROI analysis for project requests
- Open to any activities critical to the success of Acuña Finance
- Tracks financial status by monitoring variances from plan.
- Improves financial status by analyzing results and variances; identifying trends; recommending actions.
- Reconciles transactions by comparing and correcting data.
- Provides information to management by assembling and summarizing data; preparing reports; making presentations of findings, analyses, and recommendations.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
- Accomplishes finance and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
- The employee has the authority to stop the production line, when he/she notices that the product has a quality problem or defect.
- Support PSA activities and procedures with team members
- Performs all those activities that by the nature of the position are required.

**Preform some of the following activities when apply**

A/P - A/R Activities
- A/R corporate, customer claims credit/debit reconciliation
- A/P corporate, supplier differences (MRO, Indirect purchases and Direct Material)
- CONCUR - Credit cards
- US Taxes reconciliation, for USA Emp working in Mexico
- Scrap Sales
- Knows and Communicates the need for product safety.

Financial Operations & Consolidation Activities:

- Review and analysis of monthly headcount requirements.
- Evaluate cost deployment (savings) projects, participate and track monthly performance; create projects in Strong Focus and update in a monthly basis.
- Determine allowance based on projected standard labor versus MOP/budget.
- Prepare and consolidate key financial metrics and monthly financial presentation for leadership (scorecard, OMC, sales per head).
- Provide month end established reports to FP&A in HQ (Elyria) for Acuna plants.
- Prepare, review and reconcile accruals for month end; submit accrual to Assistant Controller according to accrual procedure, track accrual invoices payment during the month.
- For goods receipt and accrual purposes, confirm with PO owners if goods/services are already received so they can provide goods receipt or accrue if necessary.

Accounting, Financial & Planning functions
- Prepare Sales Tax Report
- Fixed Asset management
- Participate on Annual External Audits (fixed assets)
- Review and analyze DL and IDL monthly headcount requirements.
- Evaluate cost deployment (savings) projects, participate and track monthly performance; create projects in Strong Focus and update in a monthly basis.
- For goods receipt and accrual purposes, confirm with PO owners if goods/services are already received so they can provide goods receipt or accrue if necessary.
- Determine efficiency and productivity ratio on a monthly basis.

**Management & Supervisory Responsibilities**:

- Job is NOT directly responsible for managing other employees.

**Knowledge**:

- Extensive knowledge of product costing and pricing principles and methods.
- Working knowledge of cost accounting systems and techniques.
- Extensive knowledge in department budgeting and forecasting.
- Working knowledge of financial statement preparation and interpretation
- Working knowledge of calculation and interpretation of key financial metrics
- Knowledge of discounted cash flow valuation of investment projects, capital projects, sourcing and make / buy decisions preferred
- Working knowledge of financial and accounting systems: GL, A/P, budgeting and forecasting systems
- Working knowledge of variance analysis and presentation
- Reporting Skills, Informing Others, Financial Skills, Foreca