Financial Analyst

Job Summary

The Financial Analyst plays a key role in driving financial performance and operational effectiveness across the WCB business unit. This individual partners closely with plant leadership, supply chain, and commercial teams to provide timely financial insights, support decision‑making, and improve core financial processes.

This role requires a strong analytical foundation with the ability to independently own key deliverables, including components of the monthly close, forecasting, and operational analysis. The ideal candidate combines technical financial skills with a hands‑on, problem‑solving mindset and the ability to translate data into actionable business insights in a manufacturing environment.

• Analyze Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flows to identify trends and business drivers.
• Support and take ownership of key components of the monthly close process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of results.
• Develop and maintain forecasts for labor, absorption, and key operational metrics in partnership with plant leadership.
• Perform variance analysis for the business unit and product lines, providing clear insights, identifying root causes and corrective actions.
• Partner with site leadership to support productivity tracking, cost reduction initiatives, and inform operational decision‑making.
• Build and enhance financial models to support business cases (capital investments, sourcing, make‑vs‑buy) and partner with factory leadership to provide decision support (NPV, payback, cost structure analysis).
• Prepare and deliver recurring site‑level financial reporting (weekly, monthly, quarterly), ensuring consistency and clear messaging and providing actionable insights to support cost reduction initiatives and sourcing decisions, including labor efficiency, absorption, and manufacturing variances (PPV/OMV).
• Support the part replacement decision‑making process by maintaining and enhancing the make‑vs‑buy financial evaluation template and approval process, partnering with cross‑functional teams to assess cost implications.
• Analyze capital expenditure requests from the business and provide recommendations for capital deployment decisions based on ROIC and timeline to value creation.
• Support the development and rollout of annual functional level budgets.
• Identify, standardize, and improve financial processes, reporting, and data quality through automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Take ownership of assigned deliverables and ensure accuracy, consistency, and timeliness across financial reporting and analysis.
• Support cross‑functional initiatives focused on cost competitiveness, inventory optimization, and operational efficiency.

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills and ability to move beyond reporting into insights.
• Solid foundation in accounting principles and financial statements with the ability to connect financials to business drivers.
• Strong attention to detail with a focus on data accuracy and integrity.
• Ability to work with ambiguous data and translate it into structured insights.
• Intellectual curiosity and desire to understand how a manufacturing business actually operates.
• Ability to multitask and learn independently in a fast‑paced environment.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both finance and non‑finance stakeholders.
• Understanding of accounting systems, processes, procedures, and internal controls.
• Proficiency in the following systems:
• One Stream (or similar tools)
• SAP and SAP Business Warehouse
• Microsoft Power BI
• Microsoft Office (primarily Excel and PowerPoint)

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in corporate finance/accounting or public accounting.
• Experience at a Big 4 or leading regional accounting firm is strongly preferred.
• Exposure to manufacturing, inventory, or cost accounting is a plus.
• Demonstrated interest in transitioning into FP&A, operational finance, or business partnering.

• Communication:
  Obtains consensus and collaboration…