Financial Analyst

Role overview

How you'll make an impact

• Analyze category revenue, gross margin, pricing, product mix, profitability, and business drivers; provide actionable insights.
• Perform financial analysis and scenario modeling for category evaluation, prioritization, and investment decisions.
• Partner with Product Category and Engineering teams on business cases, financial assumptions, and investment opportunities.
• Assess post-launch product performance against business cases, profitability targets, and return expectations.
• Reconcile actuals against budget and forecast and identify variances, risks, and opportunities.
• Maintain financial models, category reporting, dashboards, and KPIs.
• Support the annual Global R&D budget across shared engineering resources and product categories.
• Maintain 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• At least five years of relevant 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 using data-driven insights.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills; able to make complex information clear.
• Able to work independently, manage priorities, and operate in a dynamic environment.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience using SAP or other ERP systems and working with large datasets.

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