Financial Planning & Admin Analyst

GCC•Rapid City, SD

17d•$85,000 - $100,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The ideal candidate is a highly analytical finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing or industrial environment and enjoys partnering with operations leaders to drive business performance. You have a strong foundation in FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis, with the ability to connect operational activities to financial results and identify opportunities to improve profitability. Comfortable working with large data sets, ERP systems, and business intelligence tools, you can transform complex information into clear insights that support decision-making. You are collaborative, detail-oriented, and proactive, with a proven ability to build relationships across finance, operations, sales, and accounting teams. Experience in construction materials, cement, aggregates, ready-mix, asphalt, or other heavy industrial industries is highly valued, along with a passion for continuous improvement and delivering measurable business impact. This role can be located in Rapid City, SD, Denver, CO, or El Paso, TX. What You Will Do The FP&A Analyst supports financial planning, performance analysis, and decision support across GCC’s multi-product construction materials business, including aggregates, ready-mix, asphalt, and cement. This role is highly operationally focused, partnering with general managers, commercial teams, and accounting to analyze volume, pricing, cost drivers, and logistics. The Analyst plays a key role in improving margin visibility and financial discipline across a complex customer and product mix.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or related field required.
5+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, operations finance, or a related field, with exposure to construction materials manufacturing (aggregates, cement, ready-mix, or asphalt) and/or heavy industrial or manufacturing environments.
Advanced proficiency in Excel, including financial modeling, forecasting, and analysis of large data sets.
Experience working with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or similar enterprise platforms.
Familiarity with production and operational systems such as BCMI, FastWeigh, or comparable applications.
Proficiency with business intelligence and reporting tools, including Power BI, Prophix, or similar platforms.
Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into actionable business insights.
Ability to connect financial performance to operational drivers and identify opportunities to improve business results.
Strong business partnering and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across finance and operations teams.
Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy in high-volume, fast-paced transactional environments.
Willingness and ability to travel domestically up to 10–15% of the time.

Nice To Haves

Experience within the construction materials industry, including aggregates, cement, ready-mix, or asphalt operations.
Background in manufacturing, industrial production, or other heavy industrial environments.

Responsibilities

Lead the development of annual budgets, rolling forecasts, long-range plans, and capital budgets across multiple product lines and regions.
Partner with operations and commercial teams to align financial plans with market demand, production capacity, and business objectives.
Administer and optimize CAPEX approval processes, ensuring compliance with budgets, policies, and capital planning goals.
Analyze key cost drivers, including raw materials, energy, transportation, labor, equipment utilization, maintenance, and downtime.
Perform variance analysis and provide actionable insights on business performance, risks, and opportunities.
Monitor and report operational and financial KPIs, including production volumes, throughput, plant efficiency, utilization, and margin trends.
Develop dashboards, reports, and executive presentations that provide visibility into performance across regions, plants, product lines, and key customers.
Serve as a strategic finance partner to operations, sales, accounting, and business leaders by translating operational data into financial insights and recommendations.
Drive continuous improvement through process standardization, workflow optimization, and enhanced financial reporting capabilities.
Other duties as assigned.