Accounting Associate

Industry: Manufacturing

Work Location: Moline IL 61265

Job Title: Accounting Associate

Duration: 1 Year (Strong possibility of extension)

• Duties:
  Maintains and processes accounting transactions to assist with accurate financial reporting.
• Reconciles the more complex accounts, identifies discrepancies found, and provides the corrective action to be taken.
• Assists with month end close activities and preparing financial exhibits.
• Communicates with others within the department or outside of the work area (employees, customers, suppliers) in order to exchange information and to answer questions or resolve issues.
• Prepares various financial reports.
• This position will support the ongoing analysis required for cost management and strategic sourcing in the area of price changes and cost management; additionally, this individual will support process and efficiency improvement initiatives of the department.
• Major duties may include publishing monthly and quarterly reports of various degrees of complexity and preparation requirements.
• Understand published reports, publish them, and answer questions.
• Analyze price change requests, support the price and material adjustment process, validate parts are correctly matched to the client’s parts, validate current price match, validate if rate change is valid, review for outliers, investigate or escalate issues, update the system with validated information and current rate information.
• Surcharge process / foundry rate approval - track and approve surcharge submittals from suppliers, review indices and various published rates, confirm surcharge rate is valid, work with suppliers/units on supplemental documentation as necessary, and communicate with supplier and client factories.

• MUST HAVES: Spreadsheet skills with a strong understanding of Excel, including VLOOKUP, pivot tables, and charts.
• Good communication and ability to work with a team.
• Strong analytical skills and good organizational skills.
• Strong proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel.

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