Plant Cost and Assets Control Analyst

Plant Cost and Assets Control Analyst

Location:

Branchburg, NJ (HO) - US Hwy 22 W - Advanced materials

The science of electronics is transforming exponentially through innovation and connectivity around the planet. Every day, breakthroughs are making technologies – from micro-processors, memory chips and flat panels to photovoltaic cells – even smaller and more powerful, opening up countless new possibilities in how the world lives, works and connects. Air Liquide Advanced Materials grows by enabling our customers to innovate.

Our ALOHA™ and Voltaix® products are critical to the manufacturer of the newest computer chips required for Big Data and the Internet of Things.

The Plant Cost and Assets Control Analyst is responsible for facilitating a detailed analysis of site costs, which means all aspects of understanding and improving the cost management practices at the manufacturing sites or the profit center level, and support site management to control on-site inventory, assets, and spare-parts. These goals will be achieved via a combination of (a) assisting with month-end close under the direction of the entity's Finance organization and delivering detailed cost reporting, under the direction of the Senior US Plant Cost and Assets Controller, for relevant cost centers (Global Planning, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Engineering, etc.)

to site management, (b) preparing recurring and ad-hoc site-level data analysis under the direction of Ops Control to ensure the proper categorization of costs, (c) developing asset, inventory, and consumable spare-parts management discipline (d) supporting site management to identify the opportunities to ultimately eliminate inefficiencies throughout all aspects of the manufacturing sites and, (e) enabling Investment Management and Ops Control to review operating asset performance vs expectation.

The role will also ensure that costs are appropriately classified, and reported accurately. The analyst will enable the Operations Control team, Financial Reporting team, Planning, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Quality and Safety teams to help develop and analyze costs, assets and investments to support the site's ambitions. This position will offer a unique experience with enriching contact between Manufacturing and Finance. This position will report directly to the Senior US Plant Cost and Assets Controller.

The position is based out of Air Liquide Advanced Materials' Head Office in Branchburg, New Jersey but requires cycling on-site presence and is not hybrid or remote.

• Enable the Senior US Plant Cost and Assets Controller to review, and analyze the evolution of monthly costs, including determination of trends, and assist in maintaining costs within budget assigned by operations control;
• Facilitate the efficiency program at site level, under the direction of site leaders and the Senior US Plant Cost and Assets Controller, to enable site management to achieve the cost optimization objectives set by Site Management and Ops Control;
• Ensure the performance of valuated inventory cycle counts, and the biannual physical count by site personnel in accordance with Internal Controls criteria, under the supervision of Entity Finance;
• Ensure the performance of annual mobile asset counts and maintain accuracy of valuated mobile assets
• Provide monthly inventory, mobile asset, and consumable spare-parts consumption analysis
• Explain any deviations vs expectation to entity Finance and Ops Control managers in close collaboration with the team on site;
• To plan for, and rationalize mobile asset and fleet investments required by the site in close coordination with Operations, Product Management, Technical Market, under the leadership of the Central Mobile Asset Management organization
• Implement robust, standardized processes to manage and oversee spare parts consumption;
• Support site management, Operations Control, and Investment Control to enable the review of the realization of expected benefits for investments (fixed and mobile) on-site;
• Review exception reports from SAP, and enable site management to maintain the quality…