KSB
Senior Financial Analyst
Port Arthur, TX · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
AccountingERPResearchLeadershipCollaboration
About the role
- The Senior Financial Analyst strengthens cost transparency, product profitability visibility, and operational financial steering at Standard Alloys.
- This role serves as the financial bridge between Operations and Finance at plant level, ensuring reliable cost structures, accurate standard costing, and clear variance analysis.
- The position is hands-on and requires close collaboration with Operations, Industrial Engineering, and plant leadership.
Responsibilities
- Support disciplined cost logic during ERP transition and system changes
- Build on existing operational analyses of standard versus actual labor performance
- Validate and institutionalize labor standards and routing assumptions in collaboration with Industrial Engineering
- Support the GM and Operations in understanding EBIT drivers and prioritizing improvement actions
- ERP Transition Support
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 8-12+ years of manufacturing finance experience
- Experience in plant-level cost accounting
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, labor standards, routing logic, and capacity driver
- Proven ability to work effectively with Industrial Engineering and Operations teams
- Experience in heavy manufacturing or industrial equipment
- Familiarity with structured cost accounting systems that clearly separate variable (product) and fixed (structure) costs
- Strong background in standard costing environments
- ERP experience in a manufacturing environment (implementation exposure preferred)
- Strong analytical skills with hands-on data capability
- Preferred:
- Exposure to high-mix / engineered-to-order environments
- Additional Qualifications
Nice to have
- Hands-on and operationally oriented
- Comfortable working directly with shop-floor teams
- Structured, data-driven, and independent in judgment
- Clear communicator with plant leadership
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- KSB Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Skills
- Own and maintain plant standard costing structure
- Validate and recalibrate cost center rates
- Ensure reliable separation of variable (product-related) and fixed (structure/capacity-related) costs
- Monitor absorption logic and identify over-/under-absorption drivers
- Apply structured manufacturing cost accounting principles aligned with KSB's established methodology
- Maintain contribution margin transparency to support operational decision-making
- Continuously improve cost clarity in alignment with Group standards
- Provide clear product-level and part-family profitability transparency
- Analyze contribution margins and identify structural margin gaps
- Support pricing discussions with cost-based insights
- Ensure alignment between cost assumptions and operational reality
- Ensure cost center rates, routings, and BOM structures accurately reflect operational reality
Compensation
- This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship.
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