Finance Associate - 1st Shift - Non - Technical - OCU

Job Summary

Prepares basic financial analyses and reports for management. Supports the annual budget and forecasting processes. Performs activities under moderate supervision.

• Coordinates all aspects of an accounting or finance operation or subsystem; resolves problems that arise in daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual processes involving various customers.
• Develops and analyzes data to support management reports, forecasts, and plans; explains expense variances and heightens spending awareness within the organization; reviews reports for areas of emphasis and follow-up.
• Educates customers on accounting processes; coordinates customer inquiries and associated processes. Loads actual and forecast data into system; prepares journal entries, invoices, and other accounting documentation; performs account reconciliations as part of the closing process.
• Supports other daily financial processes such as purchase requisitions, invoice reconciliation, supplier payments, and requests for checks, and questions concerning monthly budget data.
• Initiates, develops, leads, and participates in improvement processes; actively participates in self- and team audits and resulting process improvements.
• Develops and conducts training programs.
• Understands the structure of the organization and maintains a strong network across departments; draws on network to answer questions, solve problems, and successfully execute responsibilities. Demonstrates confidentiality in execution of all responsibilities. Performs other duties as required, to get the job done.
• Travel as required by work.

• Action oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Instills trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Nimble learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
• Financial Analysis - Interprets financial data by analyzing trends, variances, opportunities and risks to provide insight to stakeholders regarding financial impact to drive business improvement; evaluates financial results against targets to communicate conclusions to all stakeholders; ensures integrity of financial data by investigating variances and determining corrective actions to resolve identified issues.
• Financial Reporting - Analyzes financial data by evaluating results and solutions to support business decisions; prepares and presents financial information by summarizing data to communicate results in compliance with regulations and stakeholder expectations; partners with stakeholders to drive financial performance that aligns to organizational goals and strategies.

• High school diploma, GED or equivalent required.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Excel.

• Three year experience/education requirement accomplished through one of the following:
  Bachelors degree, associates degree and at least one year of relevant experience, or at least three years of relevant experience required.
• College Degree or work experience in accounting preferred.

• Supports the daily financial processes such as purchase requisitions, invoice reconciliation, supplier payments, requests for checks, and processing of payments via Ariba.
• Assist the tax department in the budgeting and forecasting of consulting
• Maintain user information for various websites for the department.
• Prepares assigned tax returns and reports.
• Sorts, delivers and handles incoming and outgoing mail and email.

Job:
Finance

Organization:
Cummins Inc.

Role Category:
On-site with…