Financial Analyst

The Financial Analyst supports PCC Structurals Carson City by providing financial analysis, reporting, forecasting, and operational insight to help drive business performance. This position partners closely with the Plant Controller, Accounting Manager, Operations, and plant leadership to analyze financial and manufacturing results, identify trends and opportunities, and provide meaningful information that supports business decisions.

The Financial Analyst plays an important role in connecting plant operations to financial performance through analysis of manufacturing costs, labor, inventory, scrap, productivity, capital spending, and other key performance indicators. This role develops reporting and analytical tools that improve visibility into business performance and supports the plant's financial planning, forecasting, and continuous improvement efforts.

• Prepare recurring financial and operational reports for plant leadership.
• Analyze actual financial performance against budget, forecast, prior periods, and established business targets.
• Perform detailed analysis of revenue, cost of sales, operating expenses, EBIT, working capital, and other key financial measures.
• Identify significant trends, variances, risks, and opportunities and communicate findings to the Plant Controller and appropriate business leaders.
• Develop clear financial analyses and summaries that help leadership understand business performance and make informed decisions.
• Perform ad hoc financial analysis in support of operational and strategic initiatives.
• Maintain accurate supporting schedules, financial models, and analytical work papers.

• Analyze manufacturing performance, including labor utilization, overhead absorption, scrap, rework, material usage, production efficiency, and other manufacturing variances.
• Partner with Operations and Production leaders to understand the operational drivers behind financial results.
• Analyze product and manufacturing costs to identify trends, unfavorable performance, and improvement opportunities.
• Support standard cost development, analysis, and maintenance activities.
• Assist with analysis of inventory levels, inventory turns, excess and obsolete inventory, and other working capital measures.
• Support cycle count and physical inventory activities, including analysis of inventory adjustments and trends.
• Analyze the financial impact of operational improvement and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Develop tools and reporting that improve visibility into manufacturing performance.
• Support development of the annual operating plan, forecasts, and long-range financial plans.
• Prepare and maintain financial models supporting sales, labor, operating expenses, capital expenditures, inventory, cash flow, and profitability.
• Work with functional leaders to develop assumptions and gather information required for forecasts and financial plans.
• Analyze forecast performance and identify changes in business conditions that may impact expected results.
• Support scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis to evaluate business risks and opportunities.
• Assist the Plant Controller with preparation of financial presentations and planning materials for plant and division leadership.

• Partner with Operations, Production, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, and other functional teams to understand business performance and financial impacts.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze key financial and operational performance indicators.
• Assist leaders in understanding how operational decisions impact cost, profitability, inventory, and working capital.
• Provide data and financial analysis supporting productivity, cost reduction, scrap reduction, labor efficiency, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participate in operational meetings and provide financial insight as appropriate.
• Develop reporting that translates financial data into actionable information for non-financial leaders.

• Support preparation and financial evaluation of capital expenditure requests.
• Perform return-on-investment, payback, and other financial analyses for proposed capital projects.
• Track capital spending against approved budgets and identify significant variances.
• Support post-investment analysis to evaluate actual results against project assumptions and expected benefits.
• Perform financial analysis supporting new business opportunities, operational changes, make/buy…