Senior Financial Analyst, Manufacturing Finance

Pay: $95,000.00 - $ per year

Location: This is a hybrid role with regular in-person collaboration at a nearby plant or facility. The preferred location is Riverside, CA, but we are also open to candidates located near Houston, TX, Conley/Atlanta, GA, Sacramento, CA, or Clackamas/Portland, OR.

Note: Manufacturing finance experience is required. Candidates with experience in food manufacturing, industrial manufacturing, consumer products, packaging, or related production environments are strongly encouraged to apply.

• Serve as a key financial partner to plant and operations leadership.
• Analyze production costs, labor, overhead, usage, yield, efficiency, and manufacturing variances.
• Maintain and support standard costing, including labor rates, overhead rates, and cost components.
• Prepare accurate daily, weekly, and monthly financial reports for plant performance.
• Support month-end close, including journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and plant-level P&L reporting.
• Lead inventory reconciliation processes for raw materials, work in process, and finished goods.
• Support physical inventory counts, cycle counts, and audit-related activities.
• Partner with Plant Directors and operations leaders on annual budgets and rolling forecasts.
• Identify trends, cost-saving opportunities, waste reduction opportunities, and areas for improved operational efficiency.
• Translate financial data into clear, practical insights for production and plant leadership.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 2+ years of manufacturing finance, cost accounting, plant finance, or operational finance experience.
• Experience preparing financial statements, reconciliations, variance analysis, and month-end close support.
• Strong Excel and financial modeling skills.
• Experience with ERP systems.
• Power BI or similar data analysis tools preferred.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to reconcile complex data across multiple systems.
• Ability to communicate clearly with finance, operations, production, and plant leadership teams.

• Dental insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Paid holidays
• 401(k) with company match