Senior Financial Analyst- Operations

About nLIGHT

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Build financial models and scenario analyses for business decisions, investments, and alternative outlooks; identify trends, risks, and opportunities and recommend actions.
• Partner with operations, accounting, product management, and business leaders to explain performance, identify drivers, challenge assumptions, and support decisions.
• Develop and improve forecasts for capacity, hiring, spending, inventory, capital, and working-capital requirements with budget owners.
• Document assumptions, explain variances, assess risks and opportunities, and recommend improvements to financial and operational outcomes.
• Design and automate reporting and analytics for operational teams and executives, producing decision-ready insights that reduce manual work.
• Improve forecasting tools, data, processes, functionality, controls, and efficiency.
• Lead projects from problem definition and analysis through recommendations, implementation, and results tracking; coordinate stakeholders and communicate progress and risks.
• Build cross-functional partnerships and bring financial and operational perspectives to problem solving and key initiatives.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field.
• At least 6 years of work experience in finance or accounting.
• Strong understanding of financial statements.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and BI-tool skills.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills; ability to collaborate across functions and manage multiple priorities.
• High integrity, ownership, and willingness to learn.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in standard costing or cost accounting environments.
• Experience using ERP systems for financial research, reporting, and analysis.
• Experience in high-tech, semiconductor, or other manufacturing companies.
• Experience improving or automating financial reporting, forecasting, or planning processes.

Compensation and benefits

• Starting salary for the Senior Financial Analyst is $100,000–$123,000; pay depends on qualifications.
• Target cash bonus is 5% of earned wages; eligible employees may receive restricted stock unit grants.
• Benefits include four weeks of paid time off, 10 paid holidays, health benefits, medical, dental and vision coverage, spending and savings accounts, an employee stock purchase plan, and a 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting.
• The employer also provides short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, and an employee assistance program.