Senior Financial Analyst - Cost Accounting

Senior Financial Analyst

Woodbury, MN | Hybrid $100,000 - $120,000

Are you a finance professional who enjoys getting beyond the numbers and influencing business decisions?

We're seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to partner directly with the CFO and operational leaders to improve profitability, optimize production performance, and support strategic growth initiatives. This role offers a unique combination of product costing, operational finance, business analytics, and ERP transformation, along with a clear path toward future Finance Manager advancement.

• Direct exposure to executive leadership and key business decisions.
• Opportunity to become a trusted advisor to operations and production leaders.
• Clear growth potential into a Finance Manager role.
• Lead Finance's involvement in a major ERP implementation initiative.
• High-impact position influencing pricing, margins, inventory, and capital investment decisions.
• Opportunity to build reporting automation and business intelligence capabilities.
• Blend strategic finance work with hands-on operational analysis.
• Play a key role in improving efficiency, profitability, and long-term scalability.
• Work in a collaborative environment where your recommendations drive action.

• Lead product costing activities and ensure accurate cost and profitability analysis across the business.
• Analyze production, inventory, capacity utilization, and operational performance to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop financial models, ROI analyses, forecasts, and business scenarios to support strategic decisions.
• Create and enhance management reporting, dashboards, and analytics tools to improve business insight.
• Partner with operations, production, and leadership teams to translate financial data into actionable recommendations.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, pricing analysis, and inventory valuation initiatives.
• Help strengthen financial processes and lead finance work streams during ERP implementation.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• 5+ years of financial analysis experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong experience with standard costing and activity-based costing methodologies.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP systems.
• Power BI experience preferred.
• ERP implementation experience strongly preferred.

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