Blommer Chocolate Company Hiring For Financial Operations Analyst at East Greenville, PA, United States Full Time

Job Description

Overview:


Blommer has been providing delicious, high quality chocolate and cocoa products to customers since 1939. Built as a family business, we are continuing to grow and are looking for motivated and reliable associates to help in our mission of Bringing Chocolate to Life!

Position Title: Financial Operations Analyst

s to: General Manager

Hybrid Role.

Newly Created Position.

JOB SUMMARY:
The Financial Operations Analyst role is a critical team member in each of our facilities, ing directly to the General Manager, with primary responsibility for helping to understanding the main drivers for P&L improvement and understanding of cost structure. The role will provide a plant level ing package (weekly/monthly) for the General Managers and other key stakeholders and develop costing models to provide insight to fixed and variable costs at a SKU level. This data will allow the sales team to better understand how we should price a given product to hit company margin targets. The Operations Analyst will work cross functionally with Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, IT, and R&D.
Responsibilities:

The Financial Operations Analyst is responsible for providing weekly/monthly ing packages on key metrics for the General Managers and gaining insights on cost drivers at an item level.

Plant Level ing Package (weekly/monthly):

• Sales & Production
  • on results vs Plan/Forecast by Production Line
  • Assist in volume (lbs produced) reconciliation
  • on rework metrics – track and on sources & uses of rework material
  • Sales Returns activity
• Margin
  • Analysis on margin over raw materials at plant level including:
    • Overage, defined as selling price minus raw material costs
    • Waste – product that hits the plant floor or is otherwise unsaleable adding to manufacturing costs
    • Scrap – finished goods that are thrown away as a result of aging out or other quality problems that result in non-saleable inventory that must be destroyed.
    • Outside processing costs – tracking costs associated with external production required to meet commitments to customers.
    • Yield – tracking product yields on a given line/asset/product family
• Unrecovered Freight – tracking P&L impacts related to freight income and expense and any portion that is “unrecovered” resulting in a potential focus area for margin improvement
• Packaging cost – tracking packaging costs incurred vs charges to customers.
• Manufacturing Expenses vs. Budget
  • Labor ing – Headcount, Overtime, Temporary labor cost tracking
  • Repair & Maintenance ing
• SG&A Expenses vs Budgeted levels
  • Labor ing – Headcount, Overtime, Temporary labor cost tracking
  • Repair & Maintenance ing
• Tracking and ing on other key metrics
  • Safety
  • Customer Complaints
  • First Pass Quality
  • OEE performance
  • CAPEX Spend vs. Plan
  • Working Capital
  • Inventory Analysis – turns, volumes, age, accuracy

Other Responsibilities:

• Weekly Expense Review Meetings (Controller + Operations Analyst)
  • Review Labor costs
  • Repair & Maintenance (R&M)
• Management Accounting (Costing Model Improvements)
  • Dept Costs – Maintenance, Depreciation, Utilities accurate recording
  • Run Rate Data – Standard vs. Actual
  • Product profitability – Product Type & SKU level (regular review and new SKU’s)
  • Create standards a& routing in prep for ERP
  • Std to Actual Variance Analysis
• Support as needed:
  • Budget-Operations, CapEx (Controller leads with support from Operations Analyst)
  • Capital Efficiency Forms – new projects (Controller leads w/ support from Ops Analyst)
  • Post implementation of Capital Projects Analysis
  • BI (Business Intelligence) data warehouse improvement
  • Cost Reduction Activity Tracking

Note: The employer reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position
Qualifications:

• Undergraduate business, technical or accounting degree
  • Other certifications helpful (CPA, CMA, CGMA, PMP, etc.)
• Requires at least five (2) years of accounting experience with understanding of cost accounting in a production environment.

Blommer Chocolate Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type 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, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.