Title: Financial Analyst
Location: Plymouth, MN (Hybrid)
Job Type: Contract (6 Months)
Compensation: $36.00-38.00/hr
Industry: Powersports
Non-Local candidates are not being considered at this time
About the Role
We are partnering with a leading global powersports and mobility manufacturer to hire a Financial Analyst to support their Operations Finance team. Our client is a well-established organization known for designing and producing innovative recreational and industrial vehicles, with a strong global footprint in manufacturing, sourcing, and distribution. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to critical month-end close, forecasting, and materials reporting processes within a fast-paced, cross-functional finance environment.
Job Description
The Financial Analyst will support the Operations Finance team with recurring month-end close, materials reporting, forecasting, and department expense processes. This position is responsible for the accurate and timely preparation of Purchase Price Variance (PPV) and inventory revaluation journal entries, consolidation of materials actuals, PPV forecast coordination, loading of forecasts into the reporting system, and ownership of Global Sourcing department expense actuals and forecast reporting. The role is designed to provide reliable execution support for recurring finance processes while partnering with Operations Finance and Global Sourcing stakeholders to ensure reporting is complete, consistent, and deadline-driven. A successful candidate will be detail-oriented, organized, comfortable working independently, and experienced in finance, accounting, and month-end reporting processes.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare and book monthly Purchase Price Variance (PPV) and inventory revaluation journal entries, including related support, review, and reconciliation.
- Consolidate and report monthly materials actuals, primarily PPV, while also incorporating tariffs, finished goods variance (FGV), inventory revaluation, and other related materials cost drivers.
- Coordinate PPV forecast inputs, consolidate forecast updates, and load approved forecast data in accordance with the monthly forecasting calendar.
- Own Global Sourcing organization department expense actuals, variance analysis, forecast updates, and recurring reporting deliverables.
- Prepare recurring month-end reporting packages and supporting schedules for Operations Finance and Global Sourcing leadership.
- Partner with finance and sourcing stakeholders to gather inputs, validate results, explain variances, and resolve data or reporting questions.
- Maintain process documentation, standard work, and supporting files to ensure recurring activities can be completed accurately and consistently.
- Support additional related month-end close, reporting, forecasting, and ad hoc analysis activities as assigned.
Working Conditions:
- Dynamic, fast-paced, cross-functional team environment.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Basic accounting and finance knowledge.
- Strong Excel skills, including heavy use of pivot tables, ability to work with large data sets, summarize financial results, and maintain recurring reporting files.
- Experience with month-end close, journal entries, reconciliations, variance analysis, and recurring financial reporting.
- Must be local to the Minneapolis area to be considered
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and ability to meet recurring deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Ability to communicate clearly with finance and business partners, ask effective follow-up questions, and document assumptions or process steps.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with recurring deliverables, shifting priorities, and confidential financial information.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or related field.
- 2+ years of experience in finance, accounting, FP&A, operations finance, cost accounting, or related analytical roles.
- Experience with forecasting systems, ERP systems, and reporting tools; OneStream experience is a plus.
Benefits
Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary: https://www.dahlconsulting.com/benefits-w2fta/.
How to Apply
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Equal Opportunity Statement
As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!
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