Senior Financial Analyst

How You Will Help:

• Own forecasting budgeting and monthly close support for the Columbia manufacturing site with a strong focus on cost productivity and throughput.
• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards that connect financial results with operational drivers (labor hours scrap downtime yields inventory turns).
• Partner directly with operations leaders to turn real-time and automated insights into specific actions that improve margin efficiency and working capital.
• Analyze labor efficiency overhead absorption material usage and conversion cost using data-driven and where applicable predictive techniques.
• Support capital investments make-vs-buy decisions and continuous improvement initiatives through practical scenario modeling and AI-assisted analysis.

• Support standard cost development cost rollups and annual updates with a clear understanding of routing BOMs labor standards and overhead drivers.
• Investigate and explain purchase price usage labor and overhead variances clearly separating operating issues from accounting noise.
• Improve inventory accuracy and visibility through cycle count analysis reserves and data-enabled variance tracking.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies while continuously improving the speed accuracy and automation of plant financial reporting.

• Act as the finance partner to plant leadership not just reporting results but challenging assumptions and shaping decisions.
• Deliver clear operator-level insights through dashboards and visuals that resonate on the shop floor as well as in leadership reviews.
• Support lean productivity and continuous improvement initiatives with financial rigor grounded in real operational drivers.

What You Will Bring:

• 5 years of manufacturing finance experience with strong exposure to standard costing and plant operations.
• Working knowledge of labor efficiency scrap downtime absorption and inventory mechanics.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; ERP experience (SAP Oracle M3 preferred).
• Hands-on experience with Power BI (or similar tools) building dashboards that link operational KPIs to financial outcomes.
• Comfort using emerging AI tools to accelerate analysis forecasting variance detection or scenario modeling.
• Ability to explain complex financial results to non-financial operations-focused audiences.