The Senior Analyst-FP&A will provide financial support to the Operations group by analyzing logistics costs, assisting with budgeting, creating financial models, and delivering insights. Responsibilities include market trend analysis, strategic cost reduction efforts, Capex control, and improving forecasting accuracy.
This Role will provide financial support to the Operations group (Supply Chain and Manufacturing) in day-to-day activities and during the budget process. Will support closely the SO&P process, the analysis of the logistics costs related to the Inventory management, procurement financial strategy, manufacturing plant spending and capex, manufacturing variances/absorption, cost reduction strategies, and cost/spending projection. This analyst needs to understand our business model, build dynamic financial models, accurately report results, and deliver insights to the leadership team and others in the organization, facilitate planning, develop forecasts, analyze, and explain variances from expectations. This role works with teams across the company to develop data-driven models that help us evaluate risks and opportunities, recommend changes that drive company improvement and profitable growth.
Duties and responsibilities
- Analyze market trends, suppliers’ performance, internal spend data, and industry benchmarks to identify procurement opportunities and risks.
- Support the SO&P process by providing accurate data and financial insights to help in the decision-making process. Work with the Accounting and Supply team to understand the levels of inventories and the expected turnover and try to mitigate the risks of inventory losses.
- Support execution of various stages of strategic cost reduction, zero based budgeting and operations value transformation programs.
- Create analysis to understand the spending of the manufacturing plants and help to find possible savings.
- Control the Capex spending and provide explanations for the variances versus the approved budget.
- Strong business partner with the ability to deliver top-tier results in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Work closely with accounting and finance partners to ensure accurate data and information gathering and will support the build-out of the company's operating model.
- Improve forecast accuracy, streamline, and help create cohesive processes.
- Develop complex, dynamic financial models that utilize key business drivers.
- Generate metrics for the business to measure growth, profitability, expenses, efficiency, and productivity.
- Deliver innovative, accurate financial information that will enable the leadership team to make strategic decisions.
- Help drive the company’s bottom-up budgeting process, collaborating with department heads to ensure accountability to the budget.
- Deliver monthly financials and report on variances vs budget and forecast, ability to tell the story behind the numbers.
- In-depth understanding of the company’s operating model and ability to guide long-term decisions via modeling the financial implications of various strategies.
- Drive improvements in reporting accuracy, timeliness, and insightfulness.
Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required, Finance or related field, MBA is a plus
- 5+ years of financial and data analysis experience
- Expert in Microsoft Excel
- Experience with Power BI and Power Query a plus
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Leadership skills
- Creative and resourceful problem solvers who can work autonomously.
- High energy, self-starter, and ambitious.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to interface with all levels of the organization.
- Experience and comfort operating in a remote working environment.
- Willingness to travel up to 10%
Top Skills
Excel
Power BI
Power Query
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