Plant Cost & Performance Analyst

CertainTeed; Norwood (MA); On-site; USD 82,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

CertainTeed, a Saint-Gobain brand, seeks a Plant Cost Analyst at our Norwood, MA location to ensure financial statement integrity and internal controls. You will support month-end closes, budgeting, standard costs, and cost reduction initiatives, partnering with plant leadership to drive profitability.

The role demands 2+ years in cost accounting within manufacturing, strong analytical and IT skills, and excellent communication to present insights to multiple levels of the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Minimum 2 years of progressive cost accounting and analysis experience with a manufacturing organization; focus on management accounting, cost and inventory accounting, and GAAP.
• Strong analytical skills to quickly grasp issues impacting the plant's financial results.
• Strong IT aptitude to deliver desktop reporting, utilize business warehouse tools and MS Excel/PowerPoint for analysis and presentations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage projects, work independently, and communicate effectively across all areas and levels.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to build relationships across plant and functional organizations.
• Strong sense of customer service.

Responsibilities

• Manage the timely completion of the month-end financial close assignments.
• Demonstrate awareness of all elements of the plant's financial statements.
• Assist in preparing post-closing plant financial analysis, performance reports and meaningful commentary.
• Partner with the Controller to prepare and coordinate the annual budget at the plant level.
• Partner with the Controller to prepare, maintain and analyze product standard costs.
• Support the analytical needs of the Controller and other financial management.
• Partner with plant management to increase plant efficiency and profitability.
• Prepare analysis to understand the financial ramifications of current and proposed business actions.
• Identify issues and proactively initiate analyses/solutions to plant issues.
• Ensure compliance with CT and SGC policies and procedures.
• Oversee and reconcile inventory cycle counts and annual physical inventory.
• Assist in preparation of capital appropriations requests.
• Track cost reduction projects and maintain required reporting.
• Support six sigma by auditing results, training black belts, and suggesting new projects.

Skills

Cost accounting

GAAP

Analytical skills

IT aptitude

Excel

PowerPoint

Communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

Business Warehouse

Job description

CertainTeed, a Saint-Gobain brand, seeks a Plant Cost Analyst at our Norwood, MA location to ensure financial statement integrity and internal controls. You will support month-end closes, budgeting, standard costs, and cost reduction initiatives, partnering with plant leadership to drive profitability.

The role demands 2+ years in cost accounting within manufacturing, strong analytical and IT skills, and excellent communication to present insights to multiple levels of the organization.