Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Continuously improve processes at the interface between finance and operations.
- Ensure proper general ledger account and cost center usage when coding for factory purchase requisitions.
- Drive / lead cross-functional budgeting and spend reviews.
- Ensure compliance with CAPEX budget and support CAPEX requesters with profitability calculations of investments and challenge assumptions.
- Lead the capital asset tagging process and fixed asset audits as needed.
- Review production order variances with operations teams and help drive to root cause.
- Perform and/or support monthly costing process and perform ad-hoc new material costing requests.
- Closely monitor the production inventory value and reach times.
- Support the operations team with the inventory count.
- Implement and track finance relevant KPIs that complement existing operational KPIs to detect unrealized efficiencies, cost savings potentials and opportunities for productivity improvements.
- Maintain labor/overhead/machine rates for production routings.
- Support the finance team with month-end close processes as needed.
- Support the annual budget and mid-term planning process as well as monthly P&L forecasts for operations.
- Perform and/or support make-or-buy calculations, and ad-hoc financial analytics as requested by executive and leadership team.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s in Finance or Business
- Advanced MS Excel user
- Business mindset, interest in business beyond the numbers
- Strong communication skills
- Very proactive, self-motivated and process oriented
- Hands-on mentality
Preferred:
- SAP knowledge
- At least 5 years of experience in a Financial role in an operations environment
- Continuous Improvement mindset / certification
- Experience working for an international company
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What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries.
We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers.
Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry.
With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis.
No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally.
Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
