Financial Analyst, Category Controlling

Role Overview

How You'll Make an Impact

• Analyze category revenue, gross margin, pricing, product mix, profitability, and key business drivers.
• Perform financial analysis and scenario modeling for product category evaluation, prioritization, and investment decisions.
• Develop and evaluate business cases with Product Category and Engineering teams; validate assumptions and investment opportunities.
• Evaluate post-launch product performance against business case assumptions, profitability targets, and return expectations.
• Reconcile actual results against budget and forecast; identify variances, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop and maintain financial models, category reporting, dashboards, and KPIs.
• Support annual Global R&D budgeting across shared engineering resources and product categories.
• Ensure financial data integrity across ERP and reporting systems.
• Improve reporting efficiency and data visibility through automation and process improvements.
• Support special projects, strategic initiatives, and ad hoc analysis.

What Makes You a Strong Fit

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in financial analysis, FP&A, commercial finance, business partnering, category finance, or a similar role.
• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and business case development skills.
• Experience partnering with non-finance stakeholders and influencing decisions through data-driven insights.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills; able to make clear recommendations from complex information.
• Able to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and operate effectively in a dynamic environment.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience working with SAP or another ERP system and large datasets.
• Flexibility to collaborate with global teams.

Pay Information

• Pay rate type is listed as salary; no salary amount or payment cadence is provided.

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