FP&A Analyst

AMETEK Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Abaco Systems, a global leader in rugged embedded computing, seeks an FP&A Analyst to support planning, forecasting, reporting, and strategic decision-making while leveraging AI and advanced analytics.

In this role you will build models, automate reports, and partner with Finance, Operations, and IT to drive forecast accuracy and actionable business insights. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in FP&A, strong Excel and BI skills, and experience with SAP/Power BI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Analytics, Business, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years in FP&A, financial analysis, or related finance role.
• Experience with AI tools to improve productivity and decision-making.
• Ability to design AI prompts/workflows and evaluate AI outputs.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and financial performance analysis.
• Build financial models and AI-assisted forecasts for revenue, margin, expenses and cash flow.
• Automate recurring reports, dashboards, variance analysis, and management commentary.
• Develop prompts and workflows to improve FP&A speed and accuracy.
• Analyze trends, risks, and opportunities; translate findings into recommendations.
• Validate AI outputs against approved data sources before use.
• Prepare business cases and evaluate investments, pricing, and growth opportunities.
• Partner with Finance, Operations, IT, and leadership to improve planning and reporting.
• Ensure responsible AI use, data privacy, and governance.

Skills

Advanced analytics

AI fluency

Financial storytelling

Cross-functional partnering

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics/Data Analytics/Business

Tools

SAP

Power BI

SQL

Python

Job description

Abaco Systems is a global leader in modular, high performance, open architecture, standards-based rugged embedded computing for the most demanding applications in defense and industry. Our products and solutions are found in high-profile military/aerospace sea, land and air programs, plus commercial and industrial organizations in which rugged reliability is mission critical. Abaco Systems is a business unit of AMETEK, Inc.

As a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst, you will support planning, forecasting, reporting, and strategic decision-making. You will use AI, automation, and advanced analytics to improve forecast accuracy, streamline reporting, identify risks and opportunities, and deliver actionable business insights.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and financial performance analysis.
• Build financial models and AI-assisted forecasts for revenue, margin, expenses, cash flow, and business scenarios.
• Automate recurring reports, dashboards, variance analysis, and management commentary using approved AI and analytics tools.
• Develop effective prompts and workflows that improve FP&A speed, accuracy, and productivity.
• Analyze trends, anomalies, risks, and opportunities and translate findings into clear recommendations.
• Validate AI-generated outputs against approved data sources before business use.
• Prepare business cases and evaluate investments, pricing, cost reduction, and growth opportunities.
• Partner with Finance, Operations, IT, and business leaders to improve planning and reporting processes.
• Protect confidential data and follow company requirements for responsible AI, cybersecurity, and data governance.
• Present concise financial insights and recommendations to senior leadership.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Analytics, Business, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
• Five or more years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial analysis, management reporting, business partnering, or a related finance role.
• Demonstrated experience using approved AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, analytical quality, and cost effectiveness. The successful candidate must be able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.
• Proven ability to identify high-value AI use cases, design effective prompts and workflows, and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs before business use.
• Experience with financial modeling, annual planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, variance analysis, and executive-level reporting.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and presentation tools, with experience using business intelligence and data visualization platforms.
• Experience working with SAP, planning, consolidation, or enterprise performance management systems.
• Working knowledge of data structures, data quality concepts, automation, statistical analysis, and predictive modeling; experience with SQL, Python, Power Query, Power BI, or similar tools is preferred.
• Understanding of responsible AI principles, including data privacy, confidentiality, bias awareness, model limitations, human oversight, and documentation.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong financial acumen and the ability to connect operational activities to financial outcomes.
• Advanced analytical, statistical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with large and complex data sets.
• AI fluency, including prompt development, workflow design, output validation, and practical application of generative and predictive AI in finance.
• Sound judgment regarding when AI should support a task and when direct human analysis, review, or escalation is required.
• Ability to detect unsupported assumptions, hallucinations, bias, data-quality issues, and other limitations in AI-generated outputs.
• Strong business intelligence, data visualization, dashboarding, and data-storytelling capabilities.
• High attention to detail, accuracy, internal controls, and reconciliation of analytical results to source systems.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet recurring deadlines, and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex analysis into concise executive-level insights.
• Strong collaboration, influencing, and relationship-building skills across Finance, Operations, IT, and senior leadership.
• Intellectual curiosity and a continuous-improvement mindset, with a willingness to test new technologies and scale successful solutions.
• Commitment to responsible handling of confidential business information and adherence to company AI, cybersecurity, data-governance, and compliance requirements.

Abaco is a Department of Defense (DoD) supplier and as such employees may work with or be exposed to export controlled information and/or information that has been designated as classified information. This information may only be seen or handled by US citizens or qualified permanent residents or those with proper clearances.