Business Analyst, Accounting

Company: Flowserve
Location: Norfolk
Posted on: September 11, 2021

Job Description:

Job Description:

Requirements

• Analyze financial results and identify and communicate deviations to plan and forecast.  Make recommendations for potential solutions and improvements.  Promote the active use of financial data to drive business success, and continuously identify and make visible all potential risks and opportunities.

• Actively support and challenge/drive plant(s) manager / plant management team to grow enterprise value (growth > market, > margins, > ROIC, > FCF).  Work alongside business partner to achieve outcomes

• Provide trusted finance decision support, including regular and ad hoc analysis to key stakeholders.  Deliver insight into trends, risks, and opportunities

• Actively collaborate with accounting, shared service, treasury, and tax peers to ensure finance & accounting processes are executed and the function achieves its objectives.  Seek out ambiguity and clarify.  Identify areas lacking role clarity and provide solutions, escalate where required

• Identify/highlight performance trends, high & low-performing products.  Recommend and target actions and projects in collaboration with the management team to improve product volumes and profitability

• Support local implementation of enterprise transfer pricing methodology, standard costing, and product line reporting                                                                                                                    

• Support quarterly / 90-day forecast and monthly outlook processes:

• Ensure forecast output is timely and thoroughly delivered

• Identify and develop key actions in partnership with the management team required to achieve forecast (addressing gaps in performance)

• Strike a pragmatic balance between risk and opportunity, ensuring an acceptable variance to forecast in actual

• In collaboration with the management team, ensure actions are clearly identified, continuous improvement projects are executed and delivered to meet objectives.  Provide regular updates on performance and actions to achieve objectives

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business with an emphasis in Accounting or Finance.

• 3 - 5 years of finance experience in an industrial manufacturing environment preferably as a finance business partner

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