Senior FP&A Analyst

The Senior FP&A Analyst will be a key member of the finance team, reporting to the Director of FP&A in a fast-paced, PE-backed manufacturing and distribution environment. This role provides analytical and reporting support to the senior leadership team across both commercial & operational finance, partnering with the Director of FP&A to deliver insight that drives decision-making. The Senior Analyst will handle a broad mix of financial planning, reporting, and analysis while continuously improving processes and tools.

• Support the Director of FP&A in delivering financial insight to the VP of Sales and commercial leadership team
• Prepare weekly and monthly channel, customer, and product-level reporting with variance commentary and trend analysis
• Lead commercial variance analysis: identifying drivers of performance vs. budget, forecast, and prior year
• Build and maintain customer and product profitability analyses; surface margin opportunities and underperforming SKUs, customers, and channels
• Partner with the Pricing Manager on pricing analytics, providing price/volume/mix decomposition and financial modeling to support proposed pricing actions
• Incorporate market and industry data into volume forecasts and demand analyses to understand how TAM dynamics, end-market trends, and competitive shifts are impacting performance
• Support commercial OPEX budgeting, tracking, and reporting
• Assist with sales budgeting and forecasting, including pipeline-driven revenue forecasts and bridge analyses vs. budget and prior year

• Support daily, weekly, and monthly KPI reporting for the supply chain and manufacturing teams
• Prepare monthly plant financial reporting and variance analysis
• Support the annual operating budget for manufacturing and distribution facilities
  
  Track CAPEX spend by project and assist with developing proposals for new CAPEX investments (ROI, NPV, IRR)
• Develop and maintain labor and overhead (L&OH) rates supporting standard cost calculations across manufacturing facilities
• Track synergy savings and integration progress on newly acquired operations (M&A)

• Build and maintain financial models supporting strategic initiatives, scenario planning, and investment decisions for the Director of FP&A and CFO
• Perform ad hoc financial analysis on short turnaround for senior leadership and the PE sponsor, and continuously improve reporting and forecasting tools, templates, and processes
• Perform other tasks and duties, as assigned by the Director of FP&A

• 5 – 7 years' experience as a Financial Analyst, Senior Financial Analyst, Cost Accountant, or related FP&A role
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field; MBA a plus
• Strong knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost accounting, and investment analysis (ROI, NPV, IRR)
• Exposure to both commercial / sales finance and operations / manufacturing finance strongly preferred
• Experience working in Great Plains or a similar ERP system
• Experience with BI and reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar) preferred
• Advanced Excel skills, including complex modeling, large data sets, and pivot-driven analysis
• Experience in a PE-backed environment is a plus

• Self-directed and independent — capable of taking a reporting or analytical request and running with it from start to finish
• Ambitious, with a clear desire to grow into a larger leadership role within FP&A over time
• Ability to be flexible and pivot quickly across commercial, operational, and ad hoc priorities
• High energy, analytical, and results driven, striving to improve processes every day
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple work streams and a high-volume workload with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation
• Exceptional communication skills, strong relationship building skills, and a positive professional attitude
• Discreet, able to handle confidential and proprietary information appropriately; high level of integrity

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