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City of Ashland Kentucky · 1 day ago

Senior FP&A Cost Analyst

US-TX-TEXAS CITY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Ashland Inc. is a global specialty chemicals company seeking a Senior FP&A Cost Analyst to join their team. The role involves providing financial insights and support to operations, optimizing financial reporting, and collaborating with management to improve processes and profitability.

Government Administration

Responsibilities

Provide key decision support and business insight to Operations (manufacturing and supply chain) leadership team and overall Ashland executive leadership team

Optimize the financial reporting process and effectively generate monthly, quarterly and year-end financial statements together with periodic reforecasts and detailed bridges and variance analytics to explain past and projected results. Oversee plant financial operations, lead business planning, assist site manager with expense budgeting, calculate burden rates, and review/adjust allocations and assessments across multiple manufacturing sites

Proactively take on challenges, drive investigative analysis, and implement actions to drive plant efficiencies and optimization

Identify trends and areas for management attention, indicators of business activity, and other analysis and reporting to support executives and senior management

Collaborate with plant management to improve manufacturing processes, identify cost savings opportunities, and increase profitability

Lead economic evaluations of capital projects and other financial models as needed

Participate in special projects. Ad hoc reporting and analysis supporting internal customers as required

Travel less than 20%

Qualification

Finance DegreeCost AccountingFinancial ReportingMS ExcelSAPFinancial PlanningAnalytical SkillsContinuous ImprovementWork Under DeadlinesCPA/CMA/MBACross-functional CollaborationFlexibilityAdaptability

Required

BA/BS Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Management

7-10 years of progressive finance experience, preferably in Cost Accounting, FP&A or Business Analysis with an emphasis in Manufacturing Operations in a complex multi-plant, integrated global business

Strong knowledge of general accounting and financial reporting

Strong knowledge of manufacturing and cost accounting

Strong analytical skills, financial planning and analysis background

High proficiency in MS Excel is required along with a basic knowledge of SAP, Microsoft PowerBI or similar ERP, analytical query applications

Must demonstrate flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to work under tight deadlines

Strive for continuous improvement and be highly self-directed