Financial P&A Analyst

Celestica International LP•Fort Worth, TX

10d

About The Position

The Financial P&A Analyst supports financial planning, forecasting, and performance management for an assigned manufacturing site. The role provides analytical insights, improves operational visibility, and partners with site leadership to improve financial outcomes. The analyst tracks site-level results, prepares plant reporting packages, and supports strategic initiatives to strengthen site profitability and operational efficiency. The analyst helps develop and improve site budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range plans; consolidates and validates financial inputs from manufacturing operations; and prepares analyses of revenue, margin, costs, and cash flow. The position supports monthly and quarterly management reporting, analyzes production and financial trends, translates results into actionable insights, and helps investigate deviations from plan. The role collaborates with site and operations leaders on financial accountability and supports cost-reduction, yield-improvement, and productivity initiatives. It also maintains financial models and planning tools, supports relevant system implementations, promotes reporting standardization and automation, ensures compliance with policies and controls, and tracks completed CAPEX projects against their original business cases and forecasts.

Requirements

Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities.
Familiarity with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or HFM, or similar systems.
Knowledge of standard costing.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including the ability to interpret complex operational and financial data.
Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present insights clearly to non-finance site stakeholders.
3–5+ years of experience in FP&A, cost accounting, or financial analysis roles within a manufacturing environment.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

Experience with BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
Experience in a global manufacturing, high-tech, or industrial environment, specifically within publicly traded companies.

Responsibilities

Help develop, maintain, and improve site budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range plans.
Support the Site Controller or Site Finance Manager in consolidating financial inputs from manufacturing operations and ensuring their accuracy, consistency, and alignment with corporate guidelines.
Prepare reporting summaries and analyze revenue, margin (PCM), cost (TPS), and cash-flow results to support local decision-making.
Identify financial risks and opportunities and communicate their impact to site leadership.
Support preparation of monthly and quarterly plant management reporting packages, including variance analyses, KPIs, and operational dashboards.
Analyze trends in production costs, direct labor, overhead, yield and scrap, productivity, and profitability across plant lines and departments.
Translate financial results into actionable insights for site management and operations, supply chain, and engineering teams.
Support root-cause analysis for deviations from plan (AOP, BOQ, Flash) and recommend corrective actions.
Collaborate with area managers, operations managers, and functional site leaders to drive financial accountability.
Provide financial support for site initiatives such as cost-reduction programs, yield improvements, and productivity projects.
Participate in cross-functional plant reviews and present financial insights to site leadership.
Maintain and enhance site financial models, reporting templates, and planning tools.
Support system implementations or upgrades related to site FP&A and shop-floor operations.
Drive standardization and automation of reporting across the manufacturing site.
Ensure compliance with corporate policies, internal controls, and audit requirements.
Systematically track completed site CAPEX projects to validate the original business case and forecast.