Senior Financial Planning Analyst

The Senior Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst plays an important role in supporting Ohio Gratings' financial planning, reporting, forecasting, and operational analysis efforts. Reporting directly to the Vice President of FP&A, this position is responsible for gathering and validating financial and operational data, preparing recurring management reporting, performing financial and operational analysis, and supporting budgeting and forecasting processes.

Initially, this position will focus heavily on the collection, organization, validation, and analysis of financial and operational information used in management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and business performance analysis. The Senior FP&A Analyst will work closely with the Vice President of FP&A and CFO to interpret results, identify trends and business drivers, evaluate risks and opportunities, and develop recommendations for management.

As a faith-based organization rooted in biblical principles, Ohio Gratings strives to reflect these values in our work, relationships, and decision-making. We expect all associates to learn, embrace, and actively model our core values through their actions, choices, and collaboration with others. This commitment is essential to sustaining our culture and achieving shared success.

This job description does not describe all activities, duties, responsibilities, or physical demands required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, activities, physical demands, and work environment may change at any time with or without notice.

• Gather, organize, validate, and reconcile financial and operational data from ERP systems, accounting records, operational reports, and other source systems; investigate discrepancies or inconsistencies.
• Independently own assigned recurring reporting and analytical responsibilities from data collection and validation through completed analysis and preliminary conclusions, ensuring accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timely completion.
• Perform detailed monthly variance analysis comparing actual results to budget, forecast, prior-year results, and other relevant benchmarks.
• Identify and investigate significant financial and operational variances and work with the Vice President of FP&A, accounting, and operational teams to understand underlying business drivers.
• Prepare financial analyses, management reporting packages, dashboards, and clear supporting commentary for review with the Vice President of FP&A and CFO.
• Support the preparation and development of annual operating budgets, rolling forecasts, cash flow forecasts, and long-range financial plans.
• Gather, validate, and analyze financial and operational assumptions, historical results, operating trends, backlog, and other relevant business drivers supporting budgets and forecasts.
• Compare actual performance to previous forecasts, identify underlying causes of forecast variances, and support efforts to improve forecast quality and accuracy.
• Support the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning deliverables for executive leadership.

• Develop a strong understanding of Ohio Gratings' manufacturing processes, cost structure, products, customers, and key operational and financial drivers.
• Prepare and analyze manufacturing variances, including material, labor, overhead, purchase price, usage, and other significant cost variances, as applicable.
• Support gross margin and profitability analysis by customer, product, market, project, business unit, or other relevant dimensions.
• Analyze pricing, material costs, product mix, volume, labor, freight, and other factors affecting margins and profitability.
• Support inventory and working…