Why Badger Meter?
Badger Meter is a leading global water technology company, with a mission to preserve and protect the world’s most precious resource. For more than 100 years, cities and businesses have utilized our innovative and trusted solutions to enhance operational efficiency and conserve water while making it more affordable, clean and resilient. Just like every drop counts, at Badger Meter every employee counts because our contributions have a lasting impact on the world!
What You Will Contribute:
This position will be responsible for providing finance business support to our Turnkey Operations team including finance / accounting support for invoicing, inventory management, related transactions and reconciliations in our ERP system and related financial analysis. While reporting into the accounting and finance team, this role will be heavily involved with and supporting the Turnkey Operations team. Eventually this role will expand its scope to include the bids / proposal phase of the projects and supporting associated accounting and revenue recognition considerations and working with technical resources within the accounting team.
Business needs and priorities will dictate the required tasks, projects, and analyses to be conducted by the Senior Analyst – Turnkey Finance. Prioritization and direction of key projects will be provided by the Operational Finance Manager, the Director of Accounting & External Reporting, and the Director – Turnkey Operations.
This is an individual contributor (i.e. no direct reports) and project-based role that will routinely interact with cross-functional leadership to support and aid business decision-making to drive positive financial outcomes. This role requires flexibility both in terms of priorities as well as location depending upon business needs.
Essential job duties:
The primary responsibilities of the Senior Analyst – Turnkey Finance include, but are not limited to, the following activities:
- Assist the project managers with monthly project tasks including:
- Timely invoicing of each turnkey project including associated product, installation and ancillary invoicing amounts
- Recording the appropriate transactions associated with each turnkey project
- Performing a reconciliation of inventory on a monthly basis and supporting quarterly physical inventory counts of each warehouse
- Assisting with collections of invoices and explaining invoiced amounts to customers as needed
- Liaison with the broader accounting team to ensure appropriate adjustments and journal entries are recorded related to each turnkey project
- Providing a monthly forecast of revenue to be recognized / billed to customers to support the global financial projection performed by the FP&A team.
- Support of turnkey projects from bid / RFP response through project wrap-up and final closure of the project. This includes:
- Duties mentioned above
- Working with cost accounting to set up inventory part numbers and appropriate costing
- Review of quote entry into the ERP system
- Reviewing and summarizing third party installer information to determine monthly invoicing
- Manage customer credits, as necessary
- Reviewing proposed contracts for unusual elements outside of typical product shipment, installation services and associated BEACON (SaaS) revenue.
- Assist with and lead the implementation of finance / accounting related improvements resulting from recent Turnkey Kaizen Event. Update and revise processes in the future to meet the needs of the business and proper accounting activities.
- Leverage existing data and data made available through continuous improvement efforts to develop metrics and financial analytic tools to support informed decision making within the Turnkey Operations team. This includes:
- Identification of baseline (current state) and required (future state) metrics to support informed decision making and communication.
- Partnering with finance / accounting, Turnkey Operations and other cross-functional teams to identify and develop financial performance metrics.
- Use of Badger Meter-defined software to develop high-quality reports / models for finance / accounting and Turnkey Operations teams with the goal of automating and streamlining business processes.
- Use of financial analysis tools and techniques to develop and provide predictive forecasts for finance / accounting and Turnkey Operations teams.
- Use of financial analysis tools to identify new business process improvement and optimization opportunities.
- Provide project-specific trend analysis across Turnkey project portfolio.
- Other projects / duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) preferred
- Multiple years of progressive accounting/finance experience in roles such as financial planning and analysis, controlling, cost accounting, customer profitability, and other finance special projects.
Required Competencies:
- Excellent communication skills for working with management, functional leaders, peers and internal customers
- Ability to adjust to changing priorities-- ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines.
- Flexibility to travel and work remotely depending upon business circumstances, project needs, and/or staffing requirements.
- Successful candidate will be a highly motivated team player with excellent interpersonal, analytical and problem solving skills.
- Self-motivated and proactive, both with respect to managing workload and own professional development—strong work ethic.
- Proven ability to impact, influence, and interact across various levels of the organization to achieve desired outcomes through building effective relationships.
- Coordinate assistance from Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Operations and Finance to develop optimal resolution to open issues and/or address project reporting obligations.
Competitive Total Rewards at Badger Meter:
- Competitive Pay
- Annual Bonus
- Eligible for Annual Pay Increases
- Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental Coverage
- 15 days Paid Time Off + 11 Paid Holidays
- Two Ways to Save for Retirement: Badger Meter contributes 25 cents for every dollar you contribute to the plan, up to 7% of your eligible compensation. In addition to the match, the company will also contribute 5% of your eligible compensation to your Defined Contribution account on an annual basis. Additional access to a certified financial planner to help ensure your money is working for you, at no cost!
- Employer Paid benefits including: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Basic Group Life Insurance, Short Term Disability, and more
- Educational Assistance – Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250
- Voluntary benefits including: Additional Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Accident and Critical Illness coverage
- Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Applicants can learn more about their rights regarding equal opportunity in employment by viewing the federal "EEO is the Law" poster and the “EEO is the Law” poster supplement at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm
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