Operations Finance Analyst

About Ketjen

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Operations Financial Analysis
• Provide financial analysis and decision support to the Operations Finance Leader and operations teams.
• Analyze manufacturing costs, production variances, yields, productivity, and other operational performance drivers.
• Build financial models, scenarios, and business cases to evaluate operational opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights and recommendations for business stakeholders.
• Manufacturing Cost & Productivity
• Monitor manufacturing cost performance and identify key drivers of favorable and unfavorable results.
• Partner with site and operations teams to evaluate productivity initiatives and quantify expected and realized financial benefits.
• Support standard cost, variance, and cost-center analyses, including investigation of performance gaps.
• Develop recurring analyses and reporting that improve visibility into manufacturing economics and cost trends.
• Inventory & Working Capital
• Analyze inventory levels, movements, valuation, reserves, obsolescence, and working capital performance.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance to identify opportunities to improve inventory efficiency.
• Support inventory forecasting, reconciliations, and performance reviews through accurate and timely analysis.
• Evaluate the financial impact of inventory decisions and communicate risks and opportunities.
• Capital Effectiveness & Decision Support
• Support capital investment analysis, including business cases, return calculations, scenario modeling, and project tracking.
• Monitor capital spending and project financial performance against approved plans and forecasts.
• Create and maintain dashboards, reports, and analytical tools that provide actionable operations finance insights.
• Identify opportunities to improve or automate recurring reporting, data quality, and finance processes.

Required Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of finance experience, preferably in operations finance, manufacturing finance, cost accounting, financial planning and analysis, or a related discipline.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience working with large or complex data sets.
• Ability to connect financial results to operational drivers and communicate insights to financial and non-financial stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong alignment with Ketjen’s core values: curiosity, care, collaboration, humility, accountability, and integrity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience analyzing manufacturing costs, productivity, inventory, or capital expenditures.
• Experience in specialty chemicals, petrochemicals, refining, manufacturing, or another asset-intensive environment.
• Knowledge of standard costing, variance analysis, forecasting, and operational performance management.
• Experience with enterprise financial systems, manufacturing cost systems, Power BI, or other analytical tools.
• Demonstrated ability to improve or automate financial reporting and analytical processes.
• Benefits of Joining Ketjen
• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits package
• A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.
• Apply today and help Ketjen unleash the POTENTIAL of advanced chemistry for industries that power the world.