Senior Financial Analyst

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Those who came before us helped land a man on the moon, create the world's infrastructure, and introduce renewable energy alternatives. Now you can join the Timken team to write your own unique story and help drive what's next.

A career at Timken means you can have an immediate impact doing Work That Matters to the world— improving the efficiency of today's industrial equipment and preparing for the future of motion on our planet and beyond. New employees can start contributing right away, and there are many opportunities to advance your career at your own pace. Join our global team of 19,000 people in 45 countries and start helping our customers push the limits of what's possible in their world of motion.

Purpose of Position

This position provides analytic support to business leadership on several financial categories of cost and assets, specifically around production costs. This involves occasional recording of transactions to the company’s financial statements (journal entries) as well as frequent, ongoing monitoring and checking of amounts and account balances, as well as checking the work of other Timken associates and coordinating follow-up queries and actions.  This also involves numerous reporting requirements and planning and forecasting amounts, which involves coordination among many information providers and stakeholders.  This position is the primary analyst in the company for global manufacturing variance reporting and other costs related to manufacturing globally.

Essential Responsibilities

• Provide all monthly reporting for manufacturing variances. This includes preparing monthly reports of actuals results and walks vs. plan, forecast and prior period. This task involves coordinating globally to ensure that variances are explained, carefully planned, and forecasted. The task of preparing walks involves investigating variances and then grouping variances by category or otherwise synthesizing a meaningful list of variances for senior management. 
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual presentations for senior management team. Complete inventory cycle count reporting, physical inventory exemption reviews and other ad-hoc inventory management duties.
• Analyze financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision-making purposes.
• Support senior management team and department heads with in-depth analyses. Provide other ad hoc reporting and analysis as necessary to support the organization.

Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance (or related) and 4 years' accounting or finance experience, or
• Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance (or related) and 1 year's accounting or finance experience
• Cost accounting experience is preferred
• Strong analytical thinking for variance and root cause analysis
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel
• Effective communication and team skill

All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences, and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.