Senior FP&A Analyst
Role Overview
Support financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and business analysis.
Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, Engineering, and Manufacturing to provide financial insights that support performance and profitability.
Contribute to annual planning, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, financial reporting, and strategic initiatives in a manufacturing environment.
Key Skills for This Role
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Position summary
Support financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and business analysis.
Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, Engineering, and Manufacturing to provide financial insights that support performance and profitability.
Contribute to annual planning, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, financial reporting, and strategic initiatives in a manufacturing environment.
Financial planning and analysis
- Support annual operating plans, budgets, and STRAP forecasts; maintain monthly and quarterly forecasts.
- Analyze revenue, labor, materials, overhead, SG&A, and capital expenditures; assess risks and opportunities.
- Develop financial models and prepare monthly management reporting packages and KPI dashboards.
- Explain actual, budget, forecast, and prior-year variances; prepare quarterly balance-sheet and P&L variance analyses.
- Monitor spending, trends, profitability, and cash flow; recommend improvements.
Operational finance and partnership
- Analyze manufacturing performance, labor efficiency, overhead absorption, working capital, cost improvement, productivity, and profitability with Operations and Supply Chain.
- Partner with department leaders on budgets and forecasts and provide financial guidance to operational and functional teams.
- Develop business cases for capital investments and strategic initiatives; analyze pricing, margins, and profitability across products, customers, and programs.
- Work with Program Management, Operations, and Accounting on contract-level EACs and ETCs, POC revenue recognition, cost variances, and forecast changes affecting revenue, margin, and cash flow.
Process improvement and controls
- Support finance continuous improvement, reporting accuracy, and financial data integrity.
- Document and enhance planning and reporting processes; comply with company policies and internal and external control requirements.
- Participate in special projects and cross-functional initiatives and help build financial accountability.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 5–7 years of experience in FP&A, Finance, Accounting, Corporate Finance, or related roles.
- Strong understanding of financial statements and financial analysis techniques.
- Advanced Excel skills, including PivotTables, lookups, financial modeling, and data analysis.
- Experience supporting manufacturing, industrial, aerospace, defense, or engineered-products businesses is preferred.
- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and reporting.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, quantitative, communication, and presentation skills; manage priorities and deadlines with attention to accuracy.
- US citizenship.
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