Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

Brooks Safety Solutions (BSS) is the nation's premier fire, life safety and security solutions provider. Through a family of more than ten brands and 20+ locations nationwide, we offer value-added product distribution, fire and life safety integration and monitoring, workforce readiness and training, and eCommerce. The products we sell and ship protect life and property in all 50 states. With 85 years of history and a growing family of brands, we are established enough to be steady and growing fast enough to be exciting.

Behind every BSS brand is one shared services team — Finance, IT, HR and Marketing — supporting the whole family, so your work touches every business we own from one seat. Learn more at our careers page.

The opportunity

FP&A at BSS is being rebuilt as the analytical engine of the business — owning the budget, the forecast and the long-range plan, and establishing business cases as the common language for every investment decision we make. You will be a core part of that build, with direct exposure to the CFO, the executive team and our investors.

The role is a business partner first and a modeler second. You will sit with operating leaders, understand what drives their P&L and working capital, and bring that back into forecasts and investment analysis that leadership can act on. Strong performers here grow into FP&A leadership.

What you'll do

Budgeting and forecasting

• Build and own driver-based models for the annual budget and rolling forecast across business units, brands and the consolidated company.
• Lead variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior year; explain what happened and what to do about it, not just what the number is.
• Produce the monthly business review package for leadership and investor reporting, with the bridges and KPIs that show how the business is actually performing.

Long-term planning and strategy

• Support the three- to five-year plan and value creation initiatives: organic growth, pricing, margin, working capital and the contribution of acquired businesses once they are in the numbers.
• Model scenarios for leadership and investor discussions and help translate strategy into targets and scorecards.

Business case and investment analysis

• Own the business case framework: build and review cases for new initiatives, capital projects and operating investments using discounted cash flow, IRR, NPV and payback.
• Run post-investment reviews so the organization learns what worked and what did not.
• Set the standard for how a business case is built here, and hold it.

Business partnering

• Partner with operating leaders across the business: performance reviews, scorecard support, controllable versus allocated results, and working-capital discipline.
• Translate financial results into operating language and operating questions into financial analysis.

Process, systems and automation

• Reduce spreadsheet sprawl: standardize models, build reusable templates, and move reporting into Power BI and the Dynamics 365 data environment as it matures.
• Partner with the Finance Systems team on planning-tool evaluation and the reporting layer of the new ERP.
• Look continuously for faster, more automated ways to produce the same or better insight.

First-year priorities

What you bring

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or…