Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

Data Analysis Inc.•Plano, TX

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A sits at the intersection of finance and manufacturing operations for O'Neil Digital Solutions (ODS), DAI's manufacturing business. In this role, you will turn revenue, margin, and plant performance into clear insights that help leaders understand results, identify opportunities, and make better decisions. This is a role for someone who wants to master how a manufacturing business makes money. You will build deep expertise in the customer, product, pricing, volume, mix, labor, material, and plant drivers behind financial performance - moving beyond what changed to explain why, quantify the impact, and help shape the response. You will own assigned FP&A workstreams end-to-end, including budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, variance analysis, financial modeling, and business partnership. Working directly with business leaders, plant teams, Accounting, Shared Services, and other functions, you will investigate questions, resolve issues, and deliver conclusions that are accurate, well-supported, and useful for decisions. Success in this role comes from combining technical strength with curiosity, precision, pace, and the initiative to find the answer. We are hybrid in the Plano office, 3 days a week and as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
3–5 years of relevant Financial Planning & Analysis experience, preferably including manufacturing FP&A and cost or margin analysis.
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, including experience with large datasets, financial modeling, complex analysis, and clear management reporting.
Strong understanding of financial concepts, accounting principles, and business economics.
Strong analytical and research skills, including the ability to independently investigate financial and operational questions and develop supported conclusions.
Demonstrated ability to perform detailed variance and driver analysis, including rate/price, volume, and mix decomposition.
Strong understanding of manufacturing margin, including labor efficiency, materials, yield and scrap, overhead absorption, freight, and product or customer mix.
Experience with major ERP and EPM systems, including data extraction and validation, data relationships, and reporting or reconciliation issues.
Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to spot discrepancies, inconsistencies, and subtle errors.
Ability to manage competing priorities independently while meeting time-sensitive reporting and business requirements.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present financial findings clearly to business partners.
Proactive, resourceful approach to investigating issues and developing solutions independently.

Nice To Haves

MBA and/or relevant professional certification, such as CPA or CMA.
Prior FP&A experience in manufacturing or another operating environment with meaningful revenue, cost, and gross-margin complexity.

Responsibilities

Own budgeting and forecasting for assigned ODS P&L areas, building a detailed understanding of the business and operational variables that drive performance.
Analyze consolidated, departmental, and plant-level results, with particular emphasis on revenue, cost of goods sold, gross margin, and manufacturing profitability.
Lead detailed root-cause analysis of actual results versus budget, forecast, prior year, and other relevant comparisons. Decompose material variances into measurable business drivers and determine what changed, why it changed, and what action should follow.
Build and explain price/rate, volume, and mix analyses and bridges. Evaluate the broader manufacturing drivers of margin performance, including labor efficiency, material cost, yield and scrap, overhead absorption, freight, and other operating factors affecting profitability.
Translate financial results into operational terms that business partners can act on. Separate symptoms from underlying causes, quantify the impact of the primary drivers, and surface risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
Build deep expertise in ODS gross margin and manufacturing economics, including how customer, product, pricing, volume, mix, labor, material, and plant performance shape financial results.
Partner directly with business leaders and operating teams to understand performance, validate assumptions, challenge explanations when needed, and provide actionable financial insight.
Work closely with Accounting and Shared Services throughout the close process to ensure results are complete, accurate, appropriately recognized, and understood. Own financial questions within the assigned workstream through resolution.
Create clear, accurate reporting and commentary that explains performance, key business drivers, relevant metrics, risks, opportunities, and recommended next actions.
Build and maintain robust financial models, pro forma analyses, and other decision-support tools for recurring FP&A activities and corporate or business-unit initiatives.
Support FP&A leadership on ODS financial matters, including process development and improvement, ERP/EPM implementation and enhancement, reporting improvements, and other initiatives within the team's scope.
Tackle ad hoc financial modeling, analysis, and reporting in support of business decisions, operational questions, and corporate projects.