Job Title:  Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Your Impact :

The Financial Planning & Analysis Manager is a key member of the Micro-Poise team and reports directly to the MicroPoise Controller. This position is responsible for all Financial Analysis, Product Profitability Reporting and Cost Accounting. 

Responsibilities :

• Leads Finance team in Financial Analysis, Product Profitability Reporting and Cost Accounting. 
• Responsible for forecasting the monthly P&L forecast and proactively leads actions to drive improvements.
• Analyzes variances between forecasted or expected and actual results. 
• Manages the month-end close for inventory, cost, and variance accounts including accounting, analysis, and account reconciliations, ensuring compliance with accounting procedures and internal controls.
• Completes monthly reporting requirements, including forecasts and actuals, and collaborates with the functional team to ensure alignment of key metrics and assumptions and clear communication between the finance team and functional teams.
• Leads monthly cross-functional meetings to resolve costing and profitability concerns, prepares profitability analysis for potential or actual orders.
• Presents ideas to make improvements and solve problems, and responsible for testing of system or process changes.
• Evaluate accounting policies and procedural controls and work to improve effectiveness and compliance.  This includes monthly SOX testing and maintenance of required documentation in the Corporate SOX database. 
• Analyzes input costs including material, freight, labor, and overhead.  Is responsible for setting inventory standards.
• Performs Ad-Hoc reporting and analysis and supports Corporate reporting requirements for profitability, cash flow, compliance, or tax purposes.

Requirements :

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA or MBA preferred.
• 5-7+ years of relevant accounting experience, manufacturing experience preferred.
• Proven experience with an integrated ERP system, implementation experience a plus.
• Excellent Excel and modeling skills.  
• Strong technical accounting and analytical skills including SOX compliance, general accounting, revenue recognition, forecasting, analysis, and reporting.
• Proactive in identifying issues and resolving concerns by implementing process improvements.
• Must have strong quantitative analytical skills, excellent strategic capabilities, and planning abilities as well as proven ability to work effectively across functions and effectively utilize fiscal tools, models, and reports to make recommendations.
• The individual must have a demonstrated ability to take on great amounts of data and be able to simplify it and communicate it to non-finance stakeholder.
• Superior organizational skills and attention to details.
• Presents ideas and information clearly and succinctly; ability to collaborate cross-functionally and be flexible with priorities. 

Why Us?

Micro-Poise Measurement Systems is a capital equipment manufacturer of measurement production machinery for the tire and automotive industries. Machinery includes Uniformity and dynamic balancer testing systems for tire and tire & wheel assemblies, tire geometry inspection systems, tire x-ray machines with automatic defect recognition, driveshaft and crankshaft balancers for automotive assemblies, and custom driveshafts. Headquartered in Streetsboro, Ohio, Micro-Poise employs about 200 colleagues around the world with sales and service offices in Europe, Asia, and India. Acquired by AMETEK in 2012, Micro-Poise is a unit within AMETEK’s Process Instruments Group.