FP&A Analyst

Waldom Electronics • Rockford, IL

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About The Position

The FP&A Analyst will support global financial planning, analysis, and strategic business initiatives. This role plays a critical part in providing insights into company performance, with a primary focus on cost reduction, and supply chain efficiency including Freight, Inventory, and broader Business FP&A activities. This position offers visibility to business leaders and progression opportunities including Sr Analyst and manager roles. The ideal candidate has a minimum of 5 years of business or financial analysis experience, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across departments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of business or financial analysis experience.
• Strong understanding of financial statements and operational metrics.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in freight, logistics, inventory analysis, or supply chain finance.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills required.
• Excellent communication and business partnering skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with NSPB (NetSuite Planning & Budgeting), Hyperion and NetSuite ERP preferred.
• Experience in global distribution environments and/or trade compliance preferred.
• Familiarity with BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual budget cycles owing key components, quarterly forecasts, and monthly financial reporting partnering with stakeholders.
• Conduct variance analysis, identifying trends, performance drivers, risks, and opportunities with actionable insights to finance and stakeholders.
• Enhance financial models and forecasting tools to support strategic decision-making.
• Prepare financial presentations and dashboards for leadership review.
• Analyze freight spending and trends across global transportation lanes.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain and Logistics teams to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Maintain KPIs and dashboards to improve visibility into freight efficiency.
• Monitor inventory levels, reserves, turnover, and aging across global operations.
• Support forecasting for inventory requirements and working capital needs.
• Analyze landed costs and collaborate with operations to assess margin impacts.
• Support executive reporting and financial review processes.
• Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Supply Chain, Accounting, and Logistics.
• Drive process improvements in financial reporting, planning, and analysis.
• Ensure data accuracy and alignment across financial systems.

Benefits

• Top quality medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans Waldom pays the majority of the medical plan cost.
• Fourteen (14) days of paid time off (PTO) annually accrued at 2.15 hours per week for the first four (4) years of employment
• 8 Paid holidays plus 1 floating holiday.
• 8 hours of paid volunteer time off annually.
• Corporate Discount Program.
• Employee Assistance Program 100% Waldom Paid!
• Generous Paid Maternity & Paternity Leaves.
• Tuition Reimbursement Program.
• Scholarship Program: for your eligible children, grandchildren & legal dependents, up to $8k a year.

What This Job Offers

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