Senior Financial Analyst

Lightera•Norcross, GA

31d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst position is a hybrid role responsible for analyzing financial data to support decision-making, improve profitability, and ensure compliance with financial regulations in the manufacturing sector. Responsible for analyzing and summarizing financial and operational data across Lightera LLC regions. Services provided to the Management team and Business units will include budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis reporting and communicating with individual business units/manufacturing locations. Hybrid role located in Norcross, GA, with a minimum of 2 days/week in the office and additional days as required by the role.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting.
5+ years’ experience in FP&A in a global, manufacturing environment.
Experience supporting U.S. and foreign countries manufacturing operations.
Strong knowledge of budget and forecast modeling.
Accounting systems knowledge, preferably SAP.
Required to communicate in both English and Japanese.

Nice To Haves

Preferred fluency in Japanese

Responsibilities

Conduct cost analysis for manufacturing processes and provide insights for cost-saving initiatives and operational improvement.
Analyze, consolidate, and interpret monthly financial results and variances to forecasts and budgets, prepare detailed reports, highlighting variances in expenses and identifying trend in revenue and costs.
Assist in the preparation of budgets and periodic forecasts.
Performs Business Cases (including for CAPEX request) and ad-hoc reporting.
Work closely with various departments
Other duties and projects as assigned.
Minimal travel required