Analyst, Finance Planning

Analog Devices•Wilmington, MA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Analyst, Finance Planning will support GO&T Finance consolidation, month-end close, forecast, and OPEX management activities. This role is responsible for maintaining key finance files, supporting variance analysis, coordinating inputs across site finance teams, and ensuring financial results are accurate, timely, and aligned across SAP, Anaplan, Fiori, and internal consolidation tools. The ideal candidate is highly detail-oriented, collaborative, comfortable working under close deadlines, and able to translate financial data into clear, concise insights for finance leadership. This role also requires strong partnership with team members across different regions and time zones, especially during close week, to ensure timely follow-up, issue resolution, and completion of close deliverables.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or related field.
A minimum of 2 years of professional experience.
Strong financial analysis, accounting, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate variances and explain key drivers clearly.
High attention to detail and strong ownership of recurring close and forecast deliverables.
Ability to work effectively under tight monthly and quarterly close deadlines.
Strong Excel skills; experience with large datasets, reconciliations, formulas, pivots, and structured reporting files.
Strong communication skills and ability to coordinate across multiple finance stakeholders and site analysts.
Continuous improvement mindset, with interest in automation, dashboarding, and building scalable reporting processes.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with SAP, Fiori, Anaplan, Power BI, or similar ERP, planning, and reporting tools preferred.
Finance, accounting, FP&A, operations finance, or manufacturing finance experience preferred.
Experience in semiconductor, manufacturing environments is a plus.
Working knowledge of cost accounting, OPEX management, variance analysis, or financial close processes preferred.
CPA, CMA, MBA progress, or relevant finance/accounting certification is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

Support monthly and quarterly close processes, including roll-forward of manufacturing site files, consolidation files, variance review files, and OPEX commentary files.
Prepare and maintain consolidation SharePoint files, coordinate analyst submissions, track due dates, and follow up with site finance teams to ensure timely completion of variances inputs.
Perform spend, applied, and variance reviews across site files and system data; investigate differences between SAP/Fiori, Anaplan, MfgSite files, and consolidation files.
Support OPEX reporting by refreshing actuals and forecast data, preparing commentary files, collecting analyst inputs, and summarizing key drivers for leadership review.
Assist with variance forecast processes by coordinating with site analysts for timely submission of inputs and updating variance review files
Support journal entry preparation, including spend vs. applied adjustments, variance deferrals, and related close entries as needed.
Upload variance and inventory data to Anaplan and tie out P&L, inventory, and variance information across required systems and reporting files.
Support BlackLine reconciliations, SOX compliance activities, external audit requests, and other control activities to ensure timely support, documentation quality, and audit readiness.
Identify process gaps, recurring manual work, and reporting inefficiencies; partner with the team to improve close, forecast, and analytics processes.