Senior Financial Analyst – Manufacturing & Materials FP&A

Mercury Systems•Chantilly, VA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Processing Technologies Business Unit is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst focused on Manufacturing and Materials FP&A. The role serves as a strategic link between shop-floor operations and enterprise financial planning, partnering with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Executive Leadership. It converts large transactional datasets into financial models, operational narratives, and actionable business decisions, helping identify cost drivers, mitigate manufacturing variance, improve working capital, and implement continuous process improvements. The position supports development of financial controls and processes to streamline Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet reporting, and contributes to product execution and the planning, forecasting, and analysis of financial performance in a high-tech, complex manufacturing environment in the Aerospace and Defense industry. It supports teams across Andover, Massachusetts; Hudson, New Hampshire; Chantilly, Virginia; and Phoenix, Arizona, and reports to the Sr. Director, Finance. The role follows a standard hybrid schedule, with occasional in-office attendance outside that schedule potentially required for meetings, execution, or team events. Phoenix is the preferred hybrid work location. The position requires access to information subject to U.S. export regulations. Access is limited to U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or individuals eligible to obtain the required U.S. government authorizations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
Typically 4 or more years of progressive experience in FP&A, Operations Finance, Plant or Manufacturing Cost Accounting, or Supply Chain Financial Analysis.
Expert modeling skills, including Power Query, dynamic arrays, complex multi-variable lookup matrices, scenario modeling, and sensitivity tables.
Demonstrated success building semantic models using DAX and Star Schema and developing published executive dashboards.
Hands-on experience with ERP systems.
Deep knowledge of standard costing, routings, absorption accounting, scrap allocation, and manufacturing P&L mechanics.
Ability to investigate variances independently, engage cross-functional teams, and drive process improvements.
Ability to meet applicable U.S. export-regulation eligibility requirements to access restricted information.

Nice To Haves

Direct hands-on experience with Oracle.
Commercial manufacturing and DoD program finance experience.
Preference for working in a hybrid capacity from Phoenix, Arizona.

Responsibilities

Consolidate, synthesize, and automate complex datasets spanning manufacturing facilities, bills of materials, standard costing systems, and supply chain logistics.
Extract, manipulate, and audit transactional, inventory, and cost-ledger data using Oracle ERP, Cloud ERP, Amazon Datalake, and Power BI.
Design and deploy executive-ready interactive Power BI dashboards providing operational visibility into metrics such as purchase price variance, scrap rates, plant throughput, and labor absorption.
Design and maintain scalable Excel financial models using Power Query, dynamic arrays, scenario managers, and advanced formulas.
Direct the Annual Operating Plan, quarterly updates, and monthly rolling forecasts for manufacturing plants, direct material spend, freight, and conversion costs.
Analyze standard-versus-actual performance, including purchase price variance, material usage variance, labor efficiency, volume variance, and under- or over-absorption.
Work with Procurement to track commodity price indices, supplier contract renegotiations, currency fluctuations, and macroeconomic inflation or deflation trends.
Monitor inventory turns, analyze safety-stock thresholds, and model excess and obsolete reserves to optimize cash flow.
Translate manufacturing metrics and financial variances into executive summaries, visual bridge charts, and strategic narratives.
Prepare and support Monthly Business Reviews with Plant Managers, VPs of Lines-of-Business, and the CFO, providing visibility into financial trajectory, risks, and opportunities.
Identify cost leakages, operational bottlenecks, and scrap anomalies, and partner with plant engineering to establish root-cause corrective actions.
Establish standardized reporting cadence, cost-tracking methodologies, and inventory governance across plant operations.