Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

• Lead the annual budget and rolling forecast processes including timeline management template design and consolidation across business units.
• Build and maintain driver-based financial models tied to operational inputs such as volume unit cost capacity utilization and freight rates.
• Deliver monthly and quarterly variance analysis (actual vs. budget forecast and prior year) with clear explanation of root cause not just the delta.
• Partner with accounting during close to ensure accruals reclasses and reporting assumptions are understood and reflected accurately.

• Act as the embedded finance contact for assigned functional leaders providing decision support on make/buy staffing capital requests and cost initiatives.
• Translate financial results into plain-language insight for non-financial stakeholders and challenge assumptions constructively.
• Support operations and supply chain with analysis of standard cost purchase price variance manufacturing variances inventory turns and landed cost.
• Contribute to customer product and channel profitability reviews that inform commercial strategy.

• Develop scenario and sensitivity models to quantify the financial impact of demand shifts input cost inflation tariffs capacity changes and footprint decisions.
• Build business cases and ROI/payback analysis for capital expenditures automation projects ROI/payback new product ROI analysis facility optimization analysis or facility investments.
• Prepare executive and board-level materials that present complex analysis clearly and defensibly.
• Support long-range planning working capital analysis and cash flow forecasting.

• Own and enhance recurring management reporting packages dashboards and KPI reporting.
• Reduce manual effort by improving data flows between SAP planning tools and BI platform; replace spreadsheet-heavy processes where practical.
• Document processes and establish repeatable standards so analysis is consistent auditable and transferable.
• Assist in data collection consolidation and analysis for M&A activities.

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics or a related field.
• 7 years of progressive FP&A corporate finance or cost/financial analysis experience.
• Direct experience in light manufacturing (automotive aftermarket preferred) distribution or other inventory-carrying environments.
• Advanced Excel skills including complex modeling large data sets and model design that others can follow.
• Working with large data sets and reconciling financial and operational data.
• Strong understanding of GAAP fundamentals cost accounting concepts and the mechanics of the three financial statements.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate financial concepts to non-finance audiences and influence without direct authority.

• MBA CPA CMA or CFA.
• SAP S4/HANA experience preferred but not required
• Experience in AI prompt writing to quickly and efficiently leverage AI tools
• Proficiency with BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• SQL Python or Power Query skills applied to finance data.
• Experience in a multi-site multi-entity or private equitybacked organization.
• Exposure to standard costing bills of material and routing structures.

• In the first 90 days: you understand our cost structure reporting cadence and data sources well enough to produce the monthly package independently.
• In the first six months: functional leaders come to you before making decisions not after.
• In the first year: at least one significant reporting or planning process is faster cleaner and less manual because you rebuilt it.

The Coats Company is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race color national origin religion ancestry sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) age marital status disability veteran status citizenship status sexual orientation gender identity or expression and other characteristics protected by law.