Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

Fujifilm•College Station, TX

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis partners with site leadership at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies Texas’ College Station 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 across the facility. The analyst plans, forecasts, and models site performance; manages assigned portions of budgeting and forecasting; and owns detailed indirect-overhead budgets, reporting, and cost management. The position works with cost-center owners and cross-functional partners to explain results, identify risks and opportunities, improve financial visibility, and support operational decisions. It also supports month-end reporting, reconciliations, accounting activities, audits, compliance, process improvements, and special projects. The role is based at the College Station, Texas facility. It is an office-based position with onsite presence expected at least three days per week and minimal travel. The company describes its work environment as flexible and its culture as focused on energy, passion, and drive (Genki).

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 ERP 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.
Onsite presence at the College Station, Texas facility at least three days per week.

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise planning or business intelligence tools such as Anaplan, Adaptive, Hyperion, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, or comparable tools.
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 ERP system.
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 line with site and corporate timelines.
Build and maintain indirect-overhead budgets and forecasts by department and cost center, including financial models, planning assumptions, templates, reconciliations, hierarchies, and KPIs.
Prepare monthly outlooks, executive-ready reporting packages, dashboards, and presentations; automate recurring reports.
Track actual results against budget, forecast, and prior periods across indirect-overhead categories, and produce monthly cost-center reports with concise variance explanations and recommended actions.
Identify cost trends, forecast gaps, risks, and opportunities; 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, ERP system, planning tools, and reporting outputs, and resolve inconsistencies.
Partner with Accounting on month-end indirect-overhead activities, including accruals, prepayments, and cost reclassifications; review accrual estimates and open commitments with business owners.
Monitor indirect-overhead cost structures, cost centers, spending categories, financial drivers, commitments, and full-year outlooks.
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 supported metrics such as cost per unit, employee, or department.
Support corrective action plans for unfavorable variances and evaluate cost-saving opportunities while accounting for operational needs, compliance, service levels, and business continuity.
Standardize cost-management practices, definitions, reporting calendars, and forecast assumptions across site functions.
Partner with Operations, Commercial, Program Management, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Information Technology, Accounting, Procurement, Facilities, and Corporate Finance to improve financial transparency.
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 ERP, 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.