What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Controller position at Dept_PhysLoc_OrgGroup?
Role Purpose: Responsible for month end close and reporting. Assists in the maintenance of the general ledger, financial statement preparation and account reconciliations. Conducts margin analysis. Performs journal entry preparation/entry and balance sheet reconciliations.
Key Responsibilities:
Language Skills: Ability to read, analyse, and interpret financial reports, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and prepare presentation material. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public
Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Basic arithmetic skills including percentages, tables, ratio and bar graphs.
Reasoning Ability: Strong problem-solving skills including capacity to apply reasoning and abstract analysis. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Other Skills and Abilities: Proficiency in the use of Excel, Word, Power Point and related software. SAP is preferred
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee in order to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
Key Responsibilities:
- Month end accounting close and reporting financial results.
- Identifies financial status by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
- Improves financial status by analyzing results; monitoring variances; identifying trends; recommending actions to management.
- Roconciles transactions by comparing and correcting data.
- Completion of numerous journal entries as required for month-end.
- Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.
- Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing publications.
- Review & verification of GAAP control requirements including reconciliation of all accounts.
- Development of standard costing systems to enhance accuracy of financial controls over operational variances and profitability analysis of commercial sales opportunities.
- Prepare year end annual accounts, periodic tax packs, and any other Walterscheid Powertrain Group reporting requirements.
- Prepare budget & forecast schedules.
- Support external year-end audit and internal Walterscheid Powertrain Group audit requirements.
- All other duties as assigned
- SAP is preferred
- B.S. degree in Finance / Accounting and five years of related experience in a manufacturing environment
Language Skills: Ability to read, analyse, and interpret financial reports, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and prepare presentation material. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public
Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Basic arithmetic skills including percentages, tables, ratio and bar graphs.
Reasoning Ability: Strong problem-solving skills including capacity to apply reasoning and abstract analysis. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Other Skills and Abilities: Proficiency in the use of Excel, Word, Power Point and related software. SAP is preferred
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee in order to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, talk, and hear.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, colour vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
- May occasionally be required to lift or move objects of up to 25 pounds
- The position is office based but requiring time in the shop of a traditional engineering facility. This facility includes such processes as: presses, metal forming machines, welding, painting, and warehousing and materials movement equipment
