FP&A ANALYST

Novvia Group; Franklin (TN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Novvia Group in Franklin, Tennessee seeks an FP&A Analyst to support financial planning, reporting, and operating finance activities. You will partner with corporate and operating leaders to translate data into actionable insights and improve visibility into performance.

The role covers monthly close, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting. Responsibilities include inventory analysis, product/customer profitability, cost analysis, and working capital improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
• 2–5 years of FP&A, financial analysis, or related role.
• Proficient in financial statements, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Experience supporting monthly close and recurring reporting.
• Advanced Excel with financial modeling, pivot tables, lookups, and large data handling.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Accounting and business leaders during monthly close to ensure complete, accurate results.
• Prepare recurring monthly management reporting, including income statement and KPI analyses.
• Analyze actual results vs budget/forecast and explain drivers of performance.
• Create variance bridges and financial walks for revenue, gross profit, OOE, EBITDA, working capital.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning; consolidate inputs and results.
• Maintain reporting models and data sets used by finance teams.
• Improve consistency, accuracy, and timeliness of financial reporting.

Skills

Financial analysis

FP&A

Excel modeling

Variance analysis

Management reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

2–5 years FP&A or related

Tools

Excel

Power BI

ERP systems

Job description

Reporting to the Finance leadership team, the FP&A Analyst will support Novvia Group’s financial planning, reporting, and operational finance activities. Based in Franklin, Tennessee, this role will partner with corporate and operating company leaders to improve visibility into performance, explain business drivers, and translate financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights.

The FP&A Analyst will play an important role in the monthly close and reporting cycle, budget and forecast processes, variance analysis, and management reporting. The role will also support operational finance priorities, including inventory analysis, aged and excess inventory disposition, product and customer profitability, cost analysis, and working capital improvement. The successful candidate will be highly analytical, accurate, curious, and comfortable working across functions in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

POSITION DETAILS

• Department: Finance
• Location: Franklin, Tennessee (on-site, hybrid)
• Reports to: Finance Leadership Team
• Employee type: Full-time, exempt
• Direct reports: None

Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning, Close & Reporting

• Partner with Accounting and business leaders during the monthly close process to ensure results are complete, accurate, and understood.
• Prepare recurring monthly management reporting, including income statement and key performance indicator analyses.
• Analyze actual results versus budget, forecast, prior year, and prior period; identify the underlying operational and financial drivers of performance.
• Prepare clear variance bridges and financial walks for revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, EBITDA, working capital, and other key metrics.
• Support annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-range planning processes by coordinating inputs, validating assumptions, and consolidating results.
• Maintain reporting models, templates, and data sets used by corporate and operating company finance teams.
• Improve the consistency, accuracy, timeliness, and usefulness of financial reporting across the organization.

Operational Finance & Business Analysis

• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, and local leadership to identify and execute disposition plans for aged, excess, and obsolete inventory.
• Track aged inventory actions and financial outcomes, including sell-through, supplier returns, transfers, markdowns, scrap, and reserve adjustments.
• Perform cost and margin analyses, including purchase price changes, freight, labor, warehousing, product costs, customer profitability, and price-cost performance.
• Investigate cost, inventory, and gross margin variances; reconcile analytical findings to reported financial results and explain root causes.

Decision Support & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Work cross-functionally with Accounting, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, IT, and operating company leadership to gather information and solve business problems.
• Translate complex data into concise, decision-ready recommendations for finance and business leaders.
• Develop a strong understanding of Novvia’s business model, operating companies, products, customers, suppliers, and systems in order to provide relevant financial insight.
• Help standardize and automate recurring reporting and analyses while strengthening data quality and financial controls.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• Approximately 2–5 years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, operational finance, accounting, or a related analytical role.
• Working knowledge of financial statements, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Experience supporting a monthly close and producing recurring financial or operational reporting.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including financial modeling, pivot tables, lookups, data validation, and the ability to work accurately with large data sets.

Preferred

• Experience with ERP, reporting, business intelligence, or data visualization tools; familiarity with Power BI or Tableau is a plus.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Analytical & Technical Capabilities

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down ambiguous or complex questions into a practical analytical approach.
• Ability to identify trends, isolate business drivers, reconcile inconsistencies, and distinguish meaningful insights from noise.
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail, with disciplined review and reconciliation of work before distribution.
• Strong Excel and financial modeling skills, with an interest in improving and automating reporting processes.
• Ability to learn new businesses, systems, data structures, and analytical techniques quickly.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders.

Ways of Working

• Collaborative and approachable, with the ability to build productive relationships across functions, operating companies, and levels of the organization.
• Curious and proactive, with a willingness to ask questions, pursue root causes, and follow analyses through to a clear conclusion.
• Comfortable balancing recurring deadlines with ad hoc requests and shifting business priorities.
• Ownership mindset and strong follow-through, with the ability to work independently while knowing when to seek input or elevate issues.
• Practical, hands-on, and willing to work through imperfect data to develop the best available answer while clearly communicating assumptions and limitations.

Company Background & Culture

Novvia Group is a national leader in packaging distribution and supply chain solutions, providing a comprehensive portfolio of packaging products and services to customers across a diverse range of end markets. Through its family of operating companies, Novvia combines the scale and capabilities of a national platform with the responsiveness and customer focus of local businesses. The company has built a reputation for exceptional service, strong supplier relationships, and strategic growth through acquisition. Novvia continues to expand its market presence through organic growth initiatives and a disciplined M&A strategy.

Novvia’s culture is entrepreneurial, collaborative, and results oriented. Team members are expected to take ownership, solve complex business challenges, and work across functions to support customers, business partners, and the company’s long-term growth. Novvia values integrity, accountability, innovation, and a relentless focus on customers and business partners.

PRIVATE EQUITY PARTNER

Novvia is a portfolio company of Kelso & Company("Kelso"), a leading private equity firm focused on partnering with middle-market companies.

Kelso is one of the oldest and most established firms specializing in private equity investing. Since 1980, Kelso has invested over $17 billion of equity capital in over 140 transactions. Kelso was founded by the inventor of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and, as a result, the principles of partnership and alignment of interest serve as the foundation of the firm’s investment philosophy. Kelso benefits from a successful investment track record, deep sector expertise, a long-tenured and stable investing team, and a reputation as a preferred partner to management teams and corporates.