Financial Analyst - Manufacturing

Suburban Enterprises•Appleton, WI

About The Position

The Financial Analyst – Manufacturing provides financial and operational analysis to improve profitability, cost accuracy, and business performance. The role analyzes customer and product profitability; monitors labor, material, purchasing, and manufacturing variances; and partners with cross-functional teams to identify root causes and corrective actions. It supports cost standards, quoting, repricing, sourcing, and continuous-improvement decisions; develops forecasts; monitors invoicing and order-to-cash performance; and translates complex data into clear insights for monthly and quarterly business reviews. The position develops quote-to-actual analyses and measures manufacturing costs and profitability across customers, products, parts, assemblies, work orders, and work centers. It also compares quoted labor and material costs with actual performance, tracks financial impacts and corrective actions, prepares rolling quarterly forecasts, and owns data preparation and leadership presentations for business reviews.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline, and three or more years of experience in financial analysis, manufacturing finance, cost accounting, operations analysis, or a related manufacturing environment; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
Strong analytical, organizational, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, with demonstrated ability to analyze large data sets.
Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems, item masters, BOMs, routings, work orders, inventory transactions, customer orders, and invoicing processes.
Understanding of standard costing, actual costing, labor variance, material variance, PPV, contribution margin, and product/customer profitability.
Experience creating executive-level financial and operational business review presentations.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain quote-to-actual analysis of labor, material, outside processing, freight, scrap, rework, revenue, margin, and manufacturing variances.
Measure profitability and true manufacturing cost by customer, product family, top-level part number, assembly/SKU, work order, and work center.
Compare quoted labor hours and costs with actual performance by work order, SKU, customer, and work center, and quantify favorable and unfavorable variances.
Partner with Manufacturing, Planning, Quality, and Engineering to identify labor-variance drivers, including staffing, training, process flow, downtime, quality, rework, shortages, engineering changes, and quote assumptions.
Compare quoted BOM and material costs with actual purchase cost and consumption; track material contribution and Purchase Price Variance (PPV) by customer, SKU, supplier, and product family.
Track financial impact, root cause, corrective action, owner, due date, expected recovery, and validated results.
Translate demand, backlog, open orders, and production schedules into a rolling quarterly forecast of sales, revenue, labor, material requirements, margin dollars, and margin percentage.
Own financial and operational data preparation and leadership presentations for Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews, covering forecast performance, profitability, labor, materials, PPV, manufacturing variances, inventory, corrective actions, risks, and opportunities.
Support cost standards, quoting, repricing, sourcing, and continuous-improvement decisions.
Develop forecasts and monitor invoicing and order-to-cash performance.