FP&A Lead for Manufacturing & DTC Growth

Montana Knife Company; Missoula (MT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Job summary

Montana Knife Company is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to own budgeting, forecasting, and SKU-level demand planning in Missoula. You will build the annual budget, run variance analyses, and analyze manufacturing costs to preserve margins while supporting growth.

You will collaborate with operations, production, supply chain, and marketing to implement a scalable finance infrastructure on-site, with the shop floor visibility essential to accurate planning and decision-making.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive FP&A experience, with clear growth in scope and ownership.
• Advanced financial modeling: three-statement models, driver-based forecasts, and scenario analysis built from scratch.
• Expert-level Excel: comfort working with large, messy data sets.
• Strong grounding in accounting fundamentals- you can read a P&L and a balance sheet and know when something is wrong.
• Ability to explain financial results to people who don't work in finance.

Responsibilities

• Develop the annual budget alongside department owners, challenging assumptions and translating plans into numbers.
• Consolidate department budgets into a company-wide plan.
• Run the monthly budget-vs-actual cycle, including variance meetings with department owners.
• Translate variances into plain-language and provide specific corrective recommendations.
• Maintain a rolling forecast across P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Build pro formas for new products, capital equipment, hiring plans, business expansions, and facility decisions, including modeling working capital and cash implications.
• Build demand forecasts by SKU and translate them into purchase and production order recommendations.
• Balance service levels against inventory investment, and own the analysis behind stock-out and overstock outcomes.
• Partner with operations and supply chain on production planning while considering manufacturing capacity, lead times, and cash implications.
• Analyze material, labor, and overhead variances, including purchase price variances, usage, rate/efficiency, and overhead absorption.
• Maintain and audit standard costs and BOMs: investigate drift between standard and actual.
• Quantify margin by product, category, and channel, and identify where cost is leaking.
• Build reporting and dashboards that people outside of finance actually use.
• Support NetSuite go-live and help shape reporting, costing, and segmentation.
• Bring forward the analysis nobody asked for when the numbers say someone should have.

Skills

FP&A experience

Financial modeling

Advanced Excel

Accounting fundamentals

Self-directed

Communication

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Montana Knife Company is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to own budgeting, forecasting, and SKU-level demand planning in Missoula. You will build the annual budget, run variance analyses, and analyze manufacturing costs to preserve margins while supporting growth.

You will collaborate with operations, production, supply chain, and marketing to implement a scalable finance infrastructure on-site, with the shop floor visibility essential to accurate planning and decision-making.