Sr Financial Analyst - Novelis Oswego Manufacturing Facility

Company Overview

Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of “shaping a sustainable world together,” we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

Position Overview

The Finance & Accounting team located at the Oswego, NY facility is seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst. This role will report to the Controller for the Oswego plant and have two direct reports. This candidate will be responsible for overseeing several plant-based finance functions relating to operating expenses, as well as bridging individual manufacturing units reporting and plant-level reporting. This candidate will work cross-functionally with both plant-based teams and corporate FP&A.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day management of financial analyst team, who are Finance Business Partners for the manufacturing units across the plant. This includes training, performance management and growth & development.
• Performing month-end activities such as completing & uploading journal entries and forecasts in SAP, exporting data from multiple sources to review & analyze actual results against plan and forecast. Non-inventory account reconciliations in OneStream.
• Complete all plant-level budgets & analysis related to hourly wage forecasts, energy, headcount, and overtime.
• Consolidating and summarizing the manufacturing unit data into plant-level reporting for the Controller and leadership team.
• Upload plant OpEx forecasts & plan to SAP and regional SharePoint.
• Work closely with HR to report actual & forecasted headcount.
• Acting as Financial Business Partner for the Central Maintenance and Admin & Support functions. This includes:
  • Supporting in all matters related to OpEx
  • Build analytical models utilizing both financial and non-financial data to forecast and analyze operating results. Clearly articulate these results back to management in order to make better business decisions.
  • Support World Class Manufacturing and continuous improvement activities by participating in cross-functional business projects and gain a comprehensive knowledge of the operational cost drivers to better support project initiatives.
  • Provide training & regular support to their departments regarding matters such as purchase requisitions, RFA submissions, invoice resolutions, valuations, and budgets.
• Periodically attend department meetings with analyst team to stay up-to-date on manufacturing activities and provide support to the teams.

Minimum qualifications

• BS Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in financial planning, forecasting and analysis.
• Advanced proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Excel is a must.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong analytical skills in business performance metrics are required, and financial modeling experience.
• Creative and innovative team player with a positive approach and a focus on business issues.
• Demonstrated ability to build successful relationships with plant leadership and regional office personnel.
• Willingness to take on additional projects and multi-task with changing priorities, as necessary.
• Demonstrated ability to meet tight deadlines with emphasis on sustained accuracy and attention to detail.

Preferred qualifications

• Manufacturing experience.

What We Offer:

Novelis' benefits say a lot about how we care for each other. Our employees and their families have many different needs. As a result, our benefits offer choices on many levels and are high in quality, driven by the marketplace, and affordable. In addition to core benefits, we provide these unique to the industry benefits:

• Family Growth Programs: Paid parental Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility Treatment, Childcare Discount and Nursing Mom Support
• Employee Assistance Programs: free resources available 24/7 to you and your family in the areas of mental health, family life, and career and financial guidance
• Wellness Programs: incentives for wellness activities, wellness spending account, programs for building healthy habits, virtual physical therapy for joint, back, and pelvic health, health management programs and more.
• Diabetes Management Program
• Pet insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• PerkSpot Discount Program
• Tuition assistance and career development programs

This role’s salary starts from $76,600 per year. Individual pay will vary based on qualifications, experience, and performance. In addition to base salary, this position includes participation in a short-term incentive plan (Annual Incentive Plan - AIP or Plant Performance incentive - PPI).

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Novelis Oswego is located in northern Central New York on the shores of Lake Ontario and employs approximately 1200 people. The Oswego plant produces more than one billion pounds of high-quality aluminum sheet each year serving customers in the automotive beverage can and specialty markets. In addition to its downtown shopping and dining district Oswego and the surrounding areas are renowned for fishing hiking snowmobiling and outdoor recreation across all four seasons. Novelis is committed to supporting the community and fosters strong relationships with non-profit and educational organizations like The Children’s Museum of Oswego Oswego County Opportunities State University of New York College at Oswego and the Pathways in Technology Early College High School among many others. Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage and provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants. Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. All terms and conditions of employment at Novelis including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoffs recalls transfers leaves of absence compensation and training are without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial or local laws.

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