Sr. FP&A Analyst
Role Overview
The Senior FP&A Analyst is the business unit’s lead source of financial insight and reports directly to the CFO.
The role owns monthly financial reporting, analyzes results and trends, and turns findings into actionable messages for senior leadership.
This is an on-site role based in Seneca, South Carolina. CORE Transformers is not providing immigration sponsorship at this time.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Senior FP&A Analyst is the business unit’s lead source of financial insight and reports directly to the CFO.
The role owns monthly financial reporting, analyzes results and trends, and turns findings into actionable messages for senior leadership.
This is an on-site role based in Seneca, South Carolina. CORE Transformers is not providing immigration sponsorship at this time.
Financial analysis and reporting
- Analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, and EBITDA.
- Perform variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior periods; identify root causes and business drivers.
- Analyze product-line, customer, and order profitability, including material, labor, and overhead costs in transformer manufacturing.
- Track backlog, bookings, pricing, cost per unit, inventory, and working capital KPIs.
- Build models for pricing decisions, capital investments, capacity planning, and business cases.
- Own the monthly financial reporting package; partner with Accounting to ensure data accuracy and reconciliation.
- Maintain standardized reports, dashboards, and KPI scorecards; prepare close schedules and commentary for audits and CFO requests.
Leadership, planning, and improvement
- Present results, trends, risks, and opportunities to the CFO and senior leaders in clear, actionable formats.
- Translate financial data into executive summaries, presentations, and recommendations; partner with operations, sales, and supply chain leaders.
- Prepare leadership meeting, board presentation, and business review materials as directed by the CFO.
- Lead or support annual budgeting and periodic rolling forecasts; develop assumptions with operational leaders and monitor performance against plan.
- Conduct scenario and sensitivity analysis for changes in demand, commodity costs such as copper and steel, and other variables.
- Improve reporting, analysis, and close processes, including automation and system enhancements; support special projects and ad hoc analysis.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a related analytical role.
- Experience preparing monthly financial reporting packages and performing variance analysis.
- Ability to present financial results and recommendations to senior or executive leadership.
- Advanced Excel skills, including financial modeling, pivot tables, lookups, and complex formulas.
- PowerPoint proficiency for executive-ready presentations.
- Working knowledge of GAAP and core accounting principles.
- Experience with an ERP system such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Epicor, or similar.
- Ability to work on-site daily at the CORE Transformers facility.
Preferred qualifications
- Manufacturing experience, ideally in electrical equipment, power transformers, or industrial products.
- Knowledge of cost accounting, standard costing, and inventory valuation.
- Experience with Power BI or Tableau; familiarity with Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, or Hyperion.
- Experience supporting a growing or private-equity-backed business.
About CORE Transformers
CORE Transformers serves commercial and industrial markets with electrical power transformers and describes itself as a small business with big-business results.
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