Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Coats; Lavergne; Sur place; EUR 95 000 - 146 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Coats in Lavergne, TN, is seeking a Senior FP&A Analyst to partner with operations, supply chain, and leadership. You will own planning cycles, build driver-based forecasts, and present insights from cost and inventory data to drive business decisions.

This onsite role requires deep analytical skills, experience with manufacturing finance, and the ability to translate complex data into clear guidance for senior management and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years FP&A or cost/financial analysis experience.
• Experience in light manufacturing or inventory environments.
• Advanced Excel modeling with large data sets.
• Strong GAAP and cost accounting knowledge.
• Ability to translate data into actionable insights for leadership.

Responsabilités

• Lead the annual budget and rolling forecasts with consolidation across units.
• Build driver-based financial models using volume, cost, capacity, and freight inputs.
• Deliver monthly/quarterly variance analysis with root-cause explanations.
• Partner with accounting during close to ensure accurate accruals and reporting assumptions.
• Provide decision support on make/buy, staffing, capital requests, and cost initiatives.
• Develop scenarios to quantify impact of demand shifts and input cost changes.

Connaissances

Advanced Excel

Financial Modeling

Cost Accounting

GAAP

Data Analysis

Communication

Formation

Bachelor's in Finance/Accounting

Outils

SAP S4/HANA

Power BI

Tableau

Python/SQL

Description du poste

Department | Finance |
| Location | LaVergne, TN: Onsite, 5 days per week |
| Employment Type | Full-time, Exempt |

Position Summary

We are a light manufacturing business focused in the automotive maintenance sector seeking a Senior FP&A Analyst to serve as a trusted financial partner to leaders across operations, supply chain, and executive management. This is a high-visibility role for someone who is equally comfortable building a driver-based forecast model, walking the plant floor to understand a cost variance, and presenting findings to senior leadership. You will own core planning cycles, translate operational activity into financial insight, and continuously improve how our finance team gets to answers. If you enjoy working where the numbers connect to physical product — inventory, production, costing, freight, and margin - this role will keep you engaged.

Key Responsibilities

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• 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.

Business Partnering

• 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.

Modeling & Scenario Analysis

• 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.

Systems, Reporting & Process Improvement

• 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.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s 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.

Preferred

• 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 equity–backed organization.
• Exposure to standard costing, bills of material, and routing structures.

What Success Looks Like

• 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.

Work Environment & Physical Requirements

This is an onsite role based in LaVergne, TN with regular presence on the production floor and in operational meetings. Occasional travel to other facilities may be required. Standard office environment.

Equal Opportunity

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.