Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description:

Confluent Medical Technologies is a financially healthy and rapidly growing medical device company dedicated to working collaboratively with our customers, taking their projects from rapid prototype into high volume production. Our unparalleled technical expertise, proven experience and partnership with our clients has allowed us to perfect the process necessary to deliver world-class medical devices through innovative material science, engineering, and manufacturing. Our primary capabilities include Nitinol components and tubing, balloon expandable stents and catheters, complex catheters, biomedical textiles, and high precision polymer tubing. We take pride in our position as the leader in the medical technology space and are driven by a passion to create products that our clients have envisioned for their customers.

At Confluent, we are committed to our values of teamwork, innovation, accountability, integrity, leadership, and customer focus, and we invest in a team who represents these values. Every member of our team plays a critical role in delivering life-saving medical devices through innovative materials science, engineering, and manufacturing. We are the medical device industry's most trusted partner, and we accomplish this with an organization focused on safety, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our team in Costa Rica. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and making an impact on our life-saving work, this may be a good fit for you! As a uniquely qualified candidate, you will: Be responsible for delivering insightful financial guidance to operations, conduct budgeting & forecasting, value-added business analysis, identify and analyze continuous improvement opportunities to achieve P&L and Balance Sheet targets for the site / Platforms / Value Streams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide financial leadership in Support of the Finance Director to deliver Operational and Financial results.
• Provide counsel to business leaders and value stream managers to drive and optimize revenue growth, profitability, inventory, cash, and capital investment while identifying Risks and Opportunities
• Provide business decision support and guidance of site financial planning, analysis, and internal controls
• Business partner to the site Finance Director & the entire plant staff collaborating to meet P&L targets.
• Perform detailed budgeting, forecasting, and business development support
• Ensure predictability of financial results by driving effective AOP and monthly forecasting processes resulting in accurate estimates of the sites Revenue, COGS, headcount, and Profit
• Provide support to the Finance Director for Production Readiness (PRR) and Product Solution (PSR) reviews
• Provide local support & analysis on Capital Appropriation (CAR) requests
• Establish, maintain, and enforce proper internal control policies and procedures
• Review Operating results, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend actions to improve overall operational and financial performance
• Reconcile plant operational and financial performance while developing bridges accordingly
• Work closely with manufacturing operations and Cost Accounting to ensure accuracy of material, labor, and overhead cost allocated to jobs
• Participate in the month-end close process, including proposing and analyzing journal entries and analysis of various operating reports, coordinating with Cost Accounting on journal entry creation to address corrections to the reported results, and preparing flash reports and walks
• Assist in preparing monthly Trend review information and support
• Provide insight on optimizing inventory performance and Days-On-Hand/Turns, while ensuring accuracy of inventory valuation and influencing appropriate disposition of reserves
• Provide deep analysis of weekly Spend reporting and against Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
• Assist focus on site level continuous improvement ideation, measurement, and reporting.
• Work closely with operations to implement and achieve lean initiatives
• Support Finance Director and site leadership in day to day activities
• Prepare ad-hoc financial analysis to support senior management decisions
  
  

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• 5 + years of finance or accounting experience (2 years cost accounting) with at least 2 years in manufacturing environment
• MBA, CPA, CPIM, or CIRM a plus
• Experience with Workday Adaptive for Financial planning or systems such as Hyperion, Cognos, TM1
• Experience with LEAN Cost Accounting a plus
• Analytical and data driven
• Strong Excel skills and experience with ERP systems such as Epicor, JD Edwards, or SAP
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to communicate with cross-functional business partners
• English requirement of at least 90% proficiency (both oral and written)
  
  

This position description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job. It is not intended to be all-inclusive of the work to be performed. The incumbent(s) will typically perform other related job objectives, special assignments and less significant responsibilities.