Assembly Cost and Inventory Analyst

What You Will Do:

• Performing cost and inventory accounting for all FCA U.S. and Canadian assembly plants.
• Complete monthly accounting close activities.
• Monitoring the status of open Single Inventory Records (SIR) lines and coordinating with Offshore Team to promptly resolve outstanding issues, including reviewing and approving the SIR account sub-ledger to general ledger reconciliations prepared by Offshore Team.
• Reviewing and approving journal entries prepared by Offshore Team, including SIR-adjusting entries during the month, standard recurring month-end entries, and month-end entries requested by plant or Corporate locations.
• Directing a staff of Offshore professional employees.
• Reviewing and/or preparing reconciliations of balance sheet accounts in accordance with established FCA policies and procedures, as well as SOX controls.
• Directly participating in, or materially supporting, the annual Product Cost Study (setting standard costs).
• Supporting business process redesign initiatives affecting SAP and legacy systems and identifying and implementing LEAD initiatives.
• Reviewing and distributing the monthly Controller's Package prepared by Offshore Team, with input from this position.
• Providing support for monitoring inter-plant, inter-company and third-party billing activity and reviewing and approving journal entries as required.
• Supporting other Finance and operational areas for accounting-related issues.
• Keeping desktop procedures current and relevant.

What You Will Learn:

• Teamwork and consultation skills as you work with manufacturing/plant operations, Purchasing, Finance, and ICT.
• Cost Accounting, including the intricate automated transactions used to account for Manufacturing and Assembly inventory transactions.
• Dealing with challenging processes/systems, accounting issue identification, redesign initiatives, and new implementations.
• Plant operating procedures and product configuration.
• Becoming a change agent.
• Project management skills.

Role Will Prepare You For:

• Additional roles within Manufacturing Group Accounting
• Roles in Corporate Accounting, Corporate Product Cost Analysis, Manufacturing Finance, Purchasing Finance, Sales & Marketing Accounting
• Plant Operations

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with focus in Accounting or Finance; or related
• Minimum 5 years of Finance or Accounting experience
• Good working knowledge of accounting principles and SOX controls
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft programs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree
• CPA designation preferred
• Plant finance and/or cost and inventory accounting experience
• Familiarity with SAP and mainframe systems