Finance Analyst
Role Overview
Mustang Cat seeks a business-minded Financial Analyst to support financial planning, operational analysis, and strategic decisions.
The role partners with leaders in Operations, Sales, Fleet, Service, and Finance to provide insights on growth, profitability, productivity, and return on capital.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Mustang Cat seeks a business-minded Financial Analyst to support financial planning, operational analysis, and strategic decisions.
The role partners with leaders in Operations, Sales, Fleet, Service, and Finance to provide insights on growth, profitability, productivity, and return on capital.
Planning and performance analysis
- Support monthly forecasts, annual budgets, long-range planning, and annual operating plans.
- Model revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA, and capital investments.
- Analyze scenarios involving growth initiatives, pricing, fleet investments, and operational changes.
- Compare performance with budgets, forecasts, and prior-year results; identify drivers of revenue, utilization, productivity, margins, and profitability.
- Analyze trends across branches, districts, and business segments and recommend performance improvements.
Reporting and capital analytics
- Build and maintain dashboards, KPI reports, and recurring management reports, including revenue, gross margin, EBITDA, utilization, productivity, and cost-to-serve measures.
- Support monthly business reviews and executive reporting packages and help standardize reporting definitions and metrics.
- Analyze fleet investments, capital allocation, equipment disposition, utilization, and return on investment.
- Assist with ROIC reporting and fleet productivity metrics; assess fleet growth, transfers, and capital deployment.
- Prepare executive presentations, business cases, and leadership summaries; improve reporting through automation and continuous improvement.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
- 2–5 years of experience in FP&A, Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, or a related field.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including financial modeling and data analysis.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Strong understanding of financial statements and operational performance metrics.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including translating complex data into business recommendations.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting operational or asset-intensive businesses is preferred.
- Experience in equipment rental, construction, industrial services, manufacturing, or distribution is preferred.
- Power BI, Tableau, or similar business intelligence platform experience is preferred.
- Experience with large datasets and business reporting tools is preferred.
Success profile
The employer seeks someone analytical, detail-oriented, curious, proactive, results-driven, accountable, collaborative, and comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Business-mindedness and commercial acumen are valued.
Benefits and workplace
- Advertised benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) with company match; paid vacation, sick time, and holidays; tuition reimbursement; and career growth opportunities.
- The posting does not specify a workplace arrangement.
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