Financial Analyst Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Four or more years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, manufacturing finance, corporate finance, cost accounting, accounting, or related financial analysis roles.
• Strong financial analysis skills and ability to organize, validate, analyze, and interpret financial and operational data.
• Strong understanding of financial statements and fundamental accounting concepts.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data analysis, financial modeling, and working with large datasets.
• Experience preparing financial reports, variance analyses, budgets, forecasts, or related management analyses.
• Analytical curiosity and demonstrated ability to investigate results, identify business drivers, and resolve data or reporting inconsistencies.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate financial information and analytical conclusions.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of responsibilities, manage multiple priorities, and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to walk throughout manufacturing facilities, climb stairs, and stand for extended periods as needed.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods while working at a computer workstation.
• Must comply with safety procedures and personal protective equipment requirements when working in production areas.

Nice To Haves

• Manufacturing or industrial environment experience is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of cost accounting, inventory accounting, manufacturing variances, and manufacturing finance concepts.
• Experience performing gross margin, customer profitability, product profitability, or operational performance analysis.
• Experience with ERP systems and understanding of underlying financial and operational data structures.
• Experience with Power BI, Power Query, Power Pivot, or other business intelligence and data visualization tools.
• Experience supporting multi-entity organizations.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, cash flow forecasting, and financial modeling.
• Experience supporting ERP, financial reporting, or business intelligence system implementations.
• CPA, CMA, FPAC, MBA, or another relevant professional certification or advanced degree is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Gather, organize, validate, and reconcile financial and operational data from ERP systems, accounting records, operational reports, and other sources; investigate discrepancies.
• Own assigned recurring reporting and analytical responsibilities from data collection and validation through analysis and preliminary conclusions, ensuring accuracy and timely completion.
• Perform monthly variance analysis comparing actual results with budgets, forecasts, prior-year results, and other benchmarks.
• Investigate significant financial and operational variances with FP&A, accounting, and operations teams to understand underlying business drivers.
• Analyze income statements, balance sheets, cash flow, and operational results to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and areas for further investigation.
• Prepare financial analyses, management reporting packages, dashboards, and supporting commentary for review with the Vice President of FP&A and CFO.
• Help maintain consistent and accurate reporting across Ohio Gratings and affiliated business entities.
• Support annual operating budgets, rolling forecasts, cash flow forecasts, and long-range financial plans.
• Gather, validate, and analyze assumptions, historical results, operating trends, backlog, and other business drivers for budgets and forecasts.
• Maintain and enhance financial models for forecasting, planning, cash flow analysis, and management decisions.
• Compare actual performance with previous forecasts, investigate forecast variances, and support improvements in forecast quality and accuracy.
• Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses for changes in volume, pricing, material costs, labor, productivity, capital investment, and other business drivers.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning deliverables for executive leadership.
• Develop knowledge of manufacturing processes, cost structure, products, customers, and operational and financial drivers.
• Work with accounting and operations to analyze production costs, material costs, direct labor, manufacturing overhead, inventory, and other operational metrics.
• Prepare and analyze manufacturing variances, including material, labor, overhead, purchase price, and usage variances, as applicable.
• Support gross margin and profitability analysis by customer, product, market, project, business unit, or other relevant dimensions.
• Analyze pricing, material costs, product mix, volume, labor, freight, and other factors affecting margins and profitability.
• Support inventory and working capital analysis, including levels, turns, aging, significant adjustments, and opportunities to reduce costs and improve productivity, margins, and efficiency.
• Maintain a regular presence in manufacturing operations to understand processes, gather insights, and validate assumptions used in financial analysis.
• Prepare recurring management reports, dashboards, KPIs, and analyses for executive and operational leaders; help maintain performance indicators aligned with organizational objectives.
• Support analysis of capital expenditures, pricing decisions, customer and product profitability, working capital, cost reduction initiatives, and other business opportunities.
• Perform ad hoc financial and operational analyses requested by the Vice President of FP&A, CFO, and other leaders.
• Develop analyses that explain why results occurred and assess potential implications for future financial performance.
• Work with the Vice President of FP&A and CFO to evaluate results and develop recommendations and potential management actions.
• Use ERP systems, Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and other analytical tools to gather, validate, analyze, and communicate financial information and resolve data integrity issues.
• Improve repeatable reporting processes to reduce manual data gathering and increase time available for analysis and decision support.
• Support development and automation of financial reports, dashboards, and analytical tools.
• Support implementation and optimization of financial systems, reporting tools, and business intelligence capabilities, including validation, development, testing, documentation, and implementation support.
• Identify opportunities to improve budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analytical processes.
• Collaborate with accounting, operations, sales, supply chain, procurement, and other teams to obtain information and build knowledge of company operations, financial drivers, products, customers, and priorities.
• Initially work with the Vice President of FP&A and CFO to review performance, interpret results, and develop recommendations for operational and functional leaders.
• As business knowledge and experience develop, take on greater responsibility for presenting financial results and analyses to department and operational leaders.
• Progress toward independently supporting assigned business units, departments, or functional areas with reporting, forecasting, performance analysis, and decision support.
• Translate financial and operational results into actionable insights, including root causes, forward-looking implications, risks, opportunities, and potential management actions.
• Build effective working relationships and develop into a trusted financial resource and business partner.