Senior Financial Analyst

Overview

Charter Manufacturing is a fourth-generation family-owned business where our will to grow drives us to do it better. Join the team and become part of our family!

This role will be hybrid, 3 days a week in office at our Saukville, WI or Cleveland, OH location. Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. Charter Manufacturing is unable to sponsor for employment visas at this time.

Senior Financial Analyst – Metallics & Operations Technology

Position Purpose

We are seeking a highly experienced Finance professional to serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders, with primary support for Metallics, and Operations Technology initiatives. In this role, you will drive financial insights, influence business decision-making, and support initiatives that improve performance, reduce costs, strengthen financial visibility, and enhance operational decision support.

You will work cross-functionally to solve complex financial and operational challenges, support forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning, and provide analysis for metallics, raw materials, capital projects, and operations technology-related initiatives. This position offers strong visibility and the opportunity to support financial strategy, continuous improvement, and transformation efforts through improved cost visibility, financial modeling, dashboards, KPIs, and business decision support.

This role is a senior individual contributor position. The ongoing need is for a finance partner who can maintain, enhance, and execute established reporting, analytical tools, processes, and business partnerships while continuing to improve visibility, accuracy, and usability for the business. The role is expected to bring insights to Operations, Supply Chain, Metallics, Procurement, Engineering, IT, and Finance partners and help operationalize those insights through actions, KPIs, controls, dashboards, process changes, and recurring management routines.

• Act as a trusted financial advisor to business leaders, providing insights that support strategic decisions and performance goals for metallics, raw materials, operations, supply chain, capital projects, and operations technology initiatives
• Partner with cross-functional teams to address complex financial challenges and opportunities related to cost drivers, sourcing changes, inventory trends, usage patterns, market movements, capital investments, and operating performance
• Translate financial results into clear, actionable recommendations for both finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Partner with Metallics, Procurement, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, IT, site leaders, and Finance to evaluate initiatives, operating processes, financial impacts, and performance improvement opportunities
• Bring financial insights to Operations and Supply Chain partners and help convert those insights into practical actions, KPIs, dashboards, controls, process improvements, or recurring review routines

• Lead financial reporting and variance analysis, delivering clear insights into performance trends for metallics, raw materials, capital projects, and Operations Technology initiatives
• Prepare and review forecasts, budgets, and long-range plans, including operational spending, raw material cost impacts, project forecasts, and materials-related business assumptions
• Support month-end close activities, reconciliations, reporting deliverables, and financial reviews related to metallics, raw materials, inventory, sourcing, usage, capital projects, and operating performance
• Provide analysis on key metrics and financial performance drivers to inform decision-making
• Analyze cost drivers, purchasing impacts, inventory trends, usage patterns, sourcing changes, raw material market movements, Value-In-Use metallics strategies, and operational performance
• Prepare recurring and ad hoc financial reports for leadership, including analysis of key business processes, project forecasts, cost trends, benefit tracking, and relevant KPIs
• Support reporting accuracy, data integrity, financial controls, and audit-related…