Senior Financial Analyst – Corporate FP&A

Brady Corporation•Milwaukee, WI

About The Position

Brady Corporation is seeking an analytical, strategic, and collaborative Senior Financial Analyst – Corporate FP&A. In this global role, you will serve as a key finance business partner supporting business units and functional areas across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Reporting directly to the Director, Global FP&A, you will work closely with the broader finance organization to deliver comprehensive financial statement support, driving both operational excellence and strategic growth across FP&A, accounting, and compliance functions.

Requirements

Analytical, strategic, and collaborative skills.
Ability to serve as a key finance business partner.
Experience supporting business units and functional areas globally.
Experience delivering comprehensive financial statement support.
Experience driving operational excellence and strategic growth.
Experience in FP&A, accounting, and compliance functions.
Experience with budgeting and forecasting processes.
Experience partnering with senior leadership and cost center owners.
Experience establishing financial targets aligned with corporate sales and profitability goals.
Experience conducting deep-dive analysis of financial results against budget and prior periods.
Experience identifying key macroeconomic and operational drivers.
Experience communicating performance variances to regional management.
Experience acting as a strategic advisor to global functional areas (HR, IT, Legal, Marketing, etc.).
Experience developing high-impact analytics to measure sales and profitability.
Experience evaluating product-line performance, payroll analysis, discretionary / vendor spend.
Experience assisting with financial and operational integration of acquisitions.
Experience maintaining and ensuring proper accounting for global business units.
Experience collaborating with shared services teams on month-end closing procedures.
Experience ensuring accurate, timely GAAP compliance.
Experience championing a strong control environment.
Experience ensuring strict compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements.
Experience with rigorous account reconciliations and analytics.
Experience partnering with HR teams to support payroll processes.
Experience overseeing payroll accruals, bonus calculations, and tracking employee status changes.
Experience identifying and executing opportunities to simplify, automate, and streamline reporting workflows and finance obligations.
Experience participating in and influencing multi-functional project teams.
Experience supporting special projects.

Responsibilities

Own key elements of the Total Company annual budget process. Partner with senior leadership and cost center owners to establish financial targets aligned with overall corporate sales and profitability goals.
Conduct deep-dive analysis of actual financial results against budget and prior periods. Identify key macroeconomic and operational drivers, and effectively communicate performance variances to regional management.
Act as a strategic advisor to other global functional areas including HR, IT, Legal, Marketing, etc. Develop high-impact analytics to measure sales and profitability, evaluating product-line performance, payroll analysis, discretionary / vendor spend (e.g., T&E, advertising).
Assist with the financial and operational integration of recent corporate acquisitions.
Maintain and ensure proper accounting for global business units. Collaborate with the India Shared Services team on month-end closing procedures to ensure accurate, timely GAAP compliance.
Champion a strong control environment by ensuring strict compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements, including rigorous account reconciliations and analytics.
Partner with the HR team to support the North American payroll process from a finance lens, overseeing payroll accruals, bonus calculations, and tracking employee status changes.
Identify and execute opportunities to simplify, automate, and streamline reporting workflows and finance obligations.
Participate in and influence multi-functional project teams tasked with evaluating, recommending, and monitoring new corporate initiatives.
Support special projects as assigned.