Financial Analyst

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Full Time Professional Muskegon, MI, US

5 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $80,000.00 To $ Annually

Beacon Recycling is looking for a Financial Analyst who can turn complex operational and financial information into clear, reliable insights that help us make better business decisions.

We operate four recycling yards and a large industrial shredder, which creates a wide range of data across purchasing, sales, inventory, material recovery, equipment performance, throughput, margins, and operating costs.

The right person for this role is analytical, precise, curious, self-directed, and comfortable working through complex information to understand what is really driving results.

This is not a position where you simply prepare the same report every month. You will help build the dashboards, KPIs, reporting processes, and analytical tools our leadership team uses to understand performance and identify opportunities for improvement.

You will analyze financial and operational information from across the company to identify trends, explain results, and help leadership make better decisions.

You will:

• Analyze profitability by location, product, customer, supplier, and operational activity.
• Monitor financial and operating performance and investigate meaningful variances.
• Identify trends, anomalies, and performance drivers within large datasets.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc analyses for management.
• Help leadership understand not only what happened, but why it happened.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.
• Assist with capital investment and return-on-investment analysis.
• Analyze and maintain sales contract information.

A major part of this position will be improving how Beacon collects, analyzes, and presents information.

You will:

• Develop, maintain, and improve Power BI dashboards
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• Create standardized KPI scorecards for our recycling yards and shredder operation.
• Build executive dashboards that make complex information easier to understand.
• Automate reporting that is currently completed manually.
• Reduce unnecessary spreadsheet work.
• Develop repeatable reporting processes that can scale as Beacon grows.
• Improve the accuracy and reliability of information used for decision-making.

Our goal is not simply to create more reports. It is to create better information with less manual work.

Our financial results are driven by what happens in our recycling yards, purchasing processes, inventory, and shredder operation.

You will analyze areas such as:

• Shredder throughput and recovery rates.
• Material yield.
• Downtime and cost per ton.
• Feedstock purchasing performance.
• Inventory levels and inventory turns.
• Operational efficiency.
• Location and product profitability.

You will also work directly with managers and operational leadership to understand what is driving the numbers and where improvement opportunities may exist.

Our information comes from multiple systems, and real-world operational data is not always perfectly organized.

You will:

• Extract and validate information from ERP, scale, accounting, and operational systems.
• Investigate unusual results and reconcile information when data sources do not agree.
• Improve data consistency and reporting reliability.
• Establish repeatable methods for collecting and analyzing information.
• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and eliminate unnecessary manual processes.

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