Job Description

The Financial Analyst - Cost Accounting supports product costing, financial analysis, and accounting control for the Engines business. You'll partner with Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Finance to drive cost transparency and operational decision-making across multiple manufacturing locations. Open to candidates across experience levels.

This role is hybrid-eligible, with primary locations in Kohler, WI and Milwaukee, WI.

Specific Responsibilities:

Product Costing & Standards

• Develop, maintain, and analyze standard costs using cross-functional inputs.
• Review Bills of Material, routings, and material master data to ensure accurate product costs.
• Create and maintain Accounting and Costing views in SAP for new and existing materials.
• Load annual purchase standards, tariffs, freight, and surcharges across assigned plants.

Cost Runs & Variance Analysis

• Coordinate and execute annual standard cost runs (baseline, purchase, BOM change, activity rate).
• Analyze cost changes and communicate impacts to Finance and Operations leadership.

Financial Close & Reporting

• Support monthly close activities including journal entries, SAP data extraction, and reconciliations.
• Compile and distribute recurring reports covering inventory, productivity, and finished goods.

Inventory & Operational Support

• Prepare global inventory status, excess & obsolete, and in-transit inventory reports.
• Resolve invoice posting issues and support quality/blocked inventory reporting.

Cross-Functional & Administrative Support

• Provide backup support across the finance team and assist with ad-hoc projects as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 0-5 years of experience in cost accounting or manufacturing finance.
• Foundational knowledge of cost accounting, inventory accounting, or variance analysis (coursework or internship counts).
• Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, basic financial modeling).
• Familiarity with ERP systems; SAP exposure a plus.

* Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

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