Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

Fujifilm•College Station, TX

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis partners with site leadership at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies’ College Station, Texas manufacturing facility to translate operational activity into accurate plans, clear insights, and timely actions. The role supports cost discipline, forecast accuracy, performance, transparency, controls, on-time delivery, and quality. The analyst plans, forecasts, and models site performance; manages assigned portions of the annual budget, re-budget, rolling forecasts, and monthly forecasts; and maintains indirect overhead budgets, financial models, planning assumptions, reconciliations, and performance indicators. The role prepares monthly outlooks and executive-ready reports, dashboards, and presentations, and improves recurring reporting through automation. The position monitors actuals against budget, forecast, and prior periods; investigates and explains cost-center variances; identifies trends, risks, opportunities, and forecast gaps; and works with budget owners and operational leaders on root causes and corrective actions. It supports month-end reporting and reconciliations, partners with Accounting on overhead-related close activities, and reviews accrual estimates and open commitments. The analyst manages indirect overhead cost visibility across departments, spending categories, and financial drivers. This includes tracking commitments and full-year outlooks; reviewing purchase orders, invoices, contracts, recurring expenses, and other inputs; developing scorecards and trend analyses; and evaluating cost-saving opportunities while considering operational needs, compliance, service levels, and business continuity. The role collaborates with Operations, Commercial, Program Management, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Information Technology, Accounting, Procurement, Facilities, and Corporate Finance. It supports cost allocations, shared-service analyses, financial tools, controls, audits, process improvements, and special projects. The position is based at the College Station facility and requires onsite presence at least three days per week. The working environment is an office, with minimal travel required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business administration, or a related field.
Three or more years of relevant experience in financial planning and analysis, cost analysis, manufacturing finance, accounting, or a related discipline.
Experience preparing or supporting budgets, forecasts, monthly reporting, and variance analysis.
Experience managing, monitoring, or analyzing indirect overhead or other manufacturing-site operating costs.
Experience partnering with operational or functional leaders to understand spending drivers and improve cost visibility.
Knowledge of financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, cost accounting concepts, financial modeling, and management reporting.
Demonstrated experience analyzing and managing indirect overhead or operating expenses in a manufacturing, industrial, life sciences, or comparable site environment.
Ability to understand cost-center structures, expense categories, budget ownership, spending drivers, and financial controls.
Ability to convert financial and operational data into concise, actionable insights for business partners.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, reconciliation, and variance-analysis skills.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, lookups, data analysis, and financial modeling.
Experience with an enterprise resource planning system, such as SAP or a comparable system.
Working knowledge of general ledger activity, accruals, prepayments, purchase orders, commitments, and month-end close processes.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain financial information to non-Finance stakeholders.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet recurring reporting deadlines, and maintain accuracy in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
High ownership, attention to detail, sound judgment, and a continuous-improvement mindset.
Ability to build effective working relationships with cost-center owners and cross-functional partners.
Ability to sit for prolonged periods, stand intermittently, perform repetitive hand, wrist, and finger motions, and occasionally lift up to 10–15 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise planning or business intelligence tools such as Anaplan, Adaptive, Hyperion, Microsoft Power BI, or Tableau.
Working knowledge of revenue recognition, financial controls, and audit support.
Experience supporting finance activities at a manufacturing site or other complex operating location.
Experience with SAP or a comparable enterprise resource planning system.
Experience with Anaplan, Adaptive, Hyperion, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, or comparable planning and reporting tools.
Experience supporting financial controls, Japan Sarbanes–Oxley and Sarbanes–Oxley requirements, and internal or external audits.
Experience analyzing labor, contractor, facilities, maintenance, utilities, procurement, or shared-service costs.
Progress toward a professional certification, such as Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, or an equivalent credential.

Responsibilities

Lead assigned portions of the annual budget, re-budget, rolling forecasts, and monthly forecasts in accordance with site and corporate timelines.
Build and maintain indirect overhead budgets and forecasts by department and cost center, including financial models, hierarchies, planning assumptions, templates, reconciliations, and key performance indicators.
Prepare monthly outlooks, executive-ready reporting packages, dashboards, and presentations; automate recurring reports.
Track actuals against budget, forecast, and prior periods across indirect overhead categories and explain variances with actionable insights.
Produce monthly cost-center reports and narratives covering business drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
Identify emerging cost trends and forecast gaps, investigate root causes with budget owners and operational leaders, and escalate material issues to the Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis.
Support Day 3 flash and other periodic reporting by gathering, validating, and analyzing operational and financial information.
Reconcile information across the general ledger, enterprise resource planning system, planning tools, and reporting outputs, and resolve inconsistencies.
Partner with Accounting on month-end overhead activities, including accruals, prepayments, and cost reclassifications; review accrual estimates and open commitments with business owners.
Maintain visibility into indirect overhead structures, cost centers, spending categories, and financial drivers; validate assumptions related to operating requirements, production activity, staffing, facilities, and approved initiatives.
Track commitments and full-year outlook; review purchase orders, invoices, recurring expenses, contracts, and other inputs to identify timing issues, duplicate charges, unplanned spend, and forecast changes.
Create cost-center scorecards and trend analyses, including cost metrics where reliable data is available.
Support corrective action plans for unfavorable variances and evaluate cost-saving opportunities while balancing operational needs, compliance, service levels, and business continuity.
Standardize cost-management practices, definitions, reporting calendars, and forecast assumptions across site functions.
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and validate expense timing, staffing plans, purchase commitments, and service agreements with cost-center owners.
Support cost allocation, shared-service, and interdepartmental charge analyses, and promote effective use of enterprise resource planning, planning, business intelligence, and reporting tools.
Follow financial policies and internal controls, including Japan Sarbanes–Oxley and Sarbanes–Oxley requirements.
Prepare schedules, reconciliations, explanations, and documentation for internal and external audits.
Lead or support ad hoc financial analyses, cost-control initiatives, process improvements, and special projects as assigned.