Financial Analyst

Johnson Electric Group • Springfield, TN

9d • Onsite

About The Position

The Financial Analyst serves as a strategic financial partner to plant, regional, and senior leadership in a fast-paced automotive manufacturing environment. The role uses financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and business intelligence to help leaders understand business drivers, improve profitability, and make informed operational decisions.

The analyst leads and supports budgeting and forecasting, evaluates financial performance and operational cost drivers, and turns complex information into actionable insights for finance and non-finance stakeholders. The position partners across Operations, Materials, Customer Service, Supply Chain, Sales, and other functions; develops reports and dashboards using Excel, Power BI, ERP systems, and other technologies; and supports reporting automation and continuous improvement, including responsible exploration of AI and emerging tools.

This is an onsite, full-time position based in Springfield, Tennessee. Work is primarily office-based, with occasional visits to manufacturing and production areas.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• At least three years of experience in financial analysis.
• Strong knowledge of general accounting and cost accounting principles.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting.
• Understanding of manufacturing and operational cost drivers.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience working with ERP systems.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
• Ability to turn complex data into clear business insights.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate with finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and willingness to learn new technologies.
• Commitment to developing expertise in AI, automation, data analytics, and emerging tools.
• Ability to use appropriate personal protective equipment, including safety glasses and steel-toe shoes, when entering designated production areas.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in automotive or manufacturing environments.
• Power BI dashboard development experience.
• Experience with plant-level financial planning and analysis.
• Knowledge of sales and volume bridge analysis.
• Experience analyzing EBITDA, headcount, CAPEX, and cost-reduction performance.
• Experience integrating financial, EDI, sales, and manufacturing data.
• Experience automating recurring financial reports and analytical processes.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted financial analysis and reporting tools.
• Experience supporting manufacturing cost-improvement or capacity-planning initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and monthly plant forecasting.
• Integrate financial, sales, volume, EDI, and operational data into planning models.
• Review and challenge forecasting assumptions with business teams, improve forecast accuracy, and communicate expected financial performance to leadership.
• Identify resource requirements, financial risks, and business opportunities, and prepare planning updates for leadership review.
• Analyze actual financial performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods, including sales and volume bridges and significant variances.
• Analyze EBITDA, headcount, CAPEX, cost reductions, and other business drivers; recommend actions to improve profitability and business performance.
• Prepare clear reporting and presentations for finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Partner with Operations, Materials, Customer Service, Supply Chain, Sales, and other functions to understand manufacturing performance and operational cost drivers.
• Analyze material, labor, overhead, production, and investment trends and support cost-improvement and profitability initiatives.
• Provide financial analysis on headcount, capacity, resource allocation, operational efficiency, investments, and manufacturing performance.
• Develop and improve financial reports, KPI dashboards, analytical tools, and scalable reporting solutions using Excel, Power BI, ERP systems, and other available technologies.
• Consolidate financial and operational information into management reports and dashboards; investigate the underlying causes of results.
• Improve data accuracy, consistency, accessibility, and reporting efficiency, and support standardization and automation of recurring FP&A reports.
• Explore practical AI and automation applications in FP&A, identify manual or repetitive activities to simplify, and validate new tools and results before implementation.
• Maintain appropriate controls, accuracy, and professional judgment when using new technologies.
• Take ownership of responsibilities, proactively identify issues and opportunities, follow them through to resolution, and communicate progress.
• Build trusted cross-functional relationships, consider broader business impacts, remain receptive to feedback, and deepen understanding of the business.
• Comply with company safety policies and training requirements, use required personal protective equipment in designated areas, and promptly report unsafe conditions or incidents.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits.
• Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development through training programs and workshops.
• A collaborative and supportive work environment.
• Opportunities to work on international projects as part of a global company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level