Financial Accountant

Step beyond traditional accounting and take on a finance role with real visibility into projects, profitability, and global operations. Join a global industrial technology leader with 5,000 employees worldwide, where you’ll gain hands-on exposure to project costing, margin and variance analysis, multi-entity financial activity, and ERP-driven finance while supporting a complex international business.

The Financial Accountant will support a complex global business through a combination of financial analysis, project accounting, and corporate accounting. This role will take an active part in project costing, contribution margin analysis, accruals, forecasting, intercompany activity, and month-end close while helping business leaders understand variances and improve project profitability.

Responsibilities

• Complete monthly and annual financial close activities for assigned business areas.
• Perform month-end closing activities across project, purchasing, and inventory modules.
• Reconcile high-volume and high-value General Ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies.
• Analyze project costs, sales, cost of sales, contribution margins, and overall profitability.
• Perform variance analysis and identify necessary financial adjustments with business unit stakeholders.
• Review project accruals, unbilled accounts receivable, and project close activities.
• Analyze intercompany sales and contribution margin allocations across multiple entities.
• Consolidate monthly results and prepare financial data for management reporting.
• Monitor multi-currency transactions and their impact on projects and General Ledger accounts.
• Review financial activities involving foreign branches and subsidiaries.
• Analyze major expense accounts, warranty reserves, and concession costs for significant variances.
• Partner directly with business units to investigate financial issues and improve reporting accuracy.
• Support financial and tax analysis involving international operations and foreign entities.
• Assign project labor rates and support project-based financial reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline required.
• 4 years of professional accounting or finance experience, including 3 years of financial analysis experience.
• Experience with GL reconciliations, variance analysis, accruals, sales and cost analysis, and month-end close.
• Demonstrated project costing, project accounting, or project profitability analysis experience.
• Proficiency with ERP financial modules; Oracle ERP experience strongly preferred.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills and experience analyzing high-volume financial data.
• Multi-entity, multi-currency, or international operations experience preferred.
• Experience with foreign subsidiaries, intercompany transactions, or international taxation preferred.
• Experience within a foreign-owned or Japanese-owned organization is a plus.
• CPA or CMA certification preferred.