Employee-Owned Manufacturing Finance Analyst

Suburban Enterprises, Inc.; Appleton (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team Member Ownership

Safety

Career Growth

Continuous Learning

Collaborative Culture

Comprehensive Benefits

Job summary

Suburban Enterprises, Inc. is seeking a Financial Analyst – Manufacturing to drive profitability and cost accuracy through rigorous financial and operational analysis.

You will analyze customer and product profitability, monitor variances, and partner with cross-functional teams to identify root causes and corrective actions. You will develop forecasts, prepare leadership presentations, and translate complex data into insights for monthly and quarterly reviews, owning data preparation and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related discipline with 3+ years in financial analysis or manufacturing environment.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel with ability to analyze large data sets.
• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems, item masters, BOMs, routings, work orders, inventory transactions, customer orders, and invoicing processes.
• Understanding of standard costing, actual costing, labor variance, material variance, PPV, contribution margin, and product/customer profitability.
• Experience creating executive-level financial and operational business review presentations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain quote-to-actual analysis of labor, material, outside processing, freight, scrap, rework, revenue, margin, and manufacturing variances.
• Measure profitability and true manufacturing cost by customer, product family, top-level part number, assembly/SKU, work order, and work center.
• Compare quoted labor hours and costs with actual performance by work order, SKU, customer, and work center; quantify variances.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Planning, Quality, and Engineering to identify labor-variance drivers such as staffing, training, process flow, downtime, quality, rework, shortages, engineering changes, and quote assumptions.
• Compare quoted BOM and material costs with actual purchase cost and consumption; track material contribution and PPV by customer, SKU, supplier, and product family.
• Track financial impact, root cause, corrective action, owner, due date, expected recovery, and validated results.
• Translate demand, backlog, open orders, and production schedules into a rolling quarterly forecast of sales, revenue, labor, materials, margin dollars, and margin percentage.
• Own financial and operational data preparation and leadership presentations for Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews, covering forecast performance, profitability, labor, materials, PPV, manufacturing variances, inventory, corrective actions, risks, and opportunities.

Skills

Analytical skills

Excel proficiency

ERP/MRP knowledge

Costing & PPV understanding

Executive presentations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Excel

ERP/MRP systems

BOMs and routings

Job description

Suburban Enterprises, Inc. is seeking a Financial Analyst – Manufacturing to drive profitability and cost accuracy through rigorous financial and operational analysis.

You will analyze customer and product profitability, monitor variances, and partner with cross-functional teams to identify root causes and corrective actions. You will develop forecasts, prepare leadership presentations, and translate complex data into insights for monthly and quarterly reviews, owning data preparation and