Senior Operations Finance Analyst

Good Works Talent•Wichita, KS

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Turn Operations Finance From Reporting What Happened Into Anticipating What Happens Next. Good Works Talent is partnering with a large, established organization in the agriculture and manufacturing sector to recruit a Senior Operations Finance Analyst for its Wichita-based operations finance team. This is an FP&A role with a broader mandate than producing forecasts and explaining variances. You’ll work across a multi-site North American manufacturing network, helping leaders understand how reliability, production, lost opportunity, cost, and other operating drivers translate into financial performance and what they should do next. You’ll also help modernize how finance works by improving forecasting and planning models, strengthening business insights, experimenting with AI and automation, and shifting analyst time from assembling information toward interpreting it. There’s an immediate leadership dimension as well. You’ll mentor early-career analysts and help raise the analytical capability of the team, creating an opportunity to build leadership experience without waiting for a formal management title.

Requirements

Solid foundation in FP&A, finance, accounting, economics, analytics, or business support.
Experience working with forecasts, plans, or business performance.
Comfortable learning technology rather than defining yourself by one particular tool.
Curiosity, learning agility, and knowing how to use technology to solve business problems.

Nice To Haves

Manufacturing experience is helpful, but not required.
A strong FP&A professional from another industry can succeed if you know how to unpack a forecast, understand the business levers behind it, and translate analysis into recommendations.
A more traditional accounting background can also work if your mindset extends beyond closing the books.
The environment includes Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, AI/Copilot-style tools, automation, and evolving data capabilities.

Responsibilities

Become a trusted FP&A partner. During your first 90 days, you’ll learn the economics and operating drivers behind a complex manufacturing network, build relationships with site analysts and finance partners, and develop command of the team’s forecasting, reporting, and planning processes. The goal isn’t simply knowing where the numbers come from you’ll need to explain what they mean.
Strengthen forecasting and planning. You’ll take increasing ownership of monthly forecasts, actual-to-plan analysis, quarterly forecasting, and annual planning. You’ll dig beneath variances to understand the operational variables driving them and turn that understanding into scenarios, recommendations, and forward-looking insights.
Help leaders understand reliability and lost opportunity. You’ll connect operating performance to economic impact, investigating root causes, assumptions, reliability factors, and lost production opportunities so leaders can better understand where value is being created—or left on the table.
Modernize operations finance. You’ll evaluate forecasting models, reporting processes, data flows, and recurring deliverables to determine what can be simplified, automated, standardized, or redesigned. One of your first opportunities will be helping automate a recurring operations results presentation used by senior leadership. The objective is to automate repeatable compilation work so analyst time can shift toward commentary, business drivers, recommendations, and what comes next.
Develop the analysts around you. You’ll mentor early-career analysts in financial analysis, business judgment, data literacy, problem solving, and communication while building toward broader leadership responsibility.