Operations Finance Analyst

Albemarle; Georgia; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

Professional resources

Job summary

Ketjen Corporation is seeking an Operations Finance Analyst to provide financial analysis across manufacturing costs, productivity, and working capital. The role partners with the Operations Finance Leader to deliver insights that improve manufacturing economics.

The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, a finance background, and interest in operations finance within a chemical/manufacturing context. This is a hands-on role supporting cost, inventory, and capital expenditure analyses.

Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of finance experience, preferably in operations/manufacturing finance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• Strong analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Excel and handling large data sets.
• Ability to connect financial results to operational drivers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial analysis and decision support to the Operations Finance Leader and operations teams.
• Analyze manufacturing costs, production variances, yields, productivity, and other operational drivers.
• Build financial models, scenarios, and business cases for opportunities and risks.
• Translate complex data into clear insights and recommendations for stakeholders.
• Monitor manufacturing cost performance and identify key drivers of results.
• Partner with site and operations teams to quantify productivity benefits.
• Support standard cost, variance, and cost-center analyses and gaps investigation.
• Develop recurring analyses and reporting for visibility into manufacturing economics.
• Monitor capital spending and project financial performance against plans.
• Create dashboards and tools for actionable operations finance insights.

Skills

Financial modeling

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

ERP systems

Job description

Are you ready to move your career forward and help shape our company’s and customers’ futures?

If you aspire to challenge yourself, work with the best in the industry and join a successful team where you can make a meaningful contribution, then we invite you to join us at Ketjen Corporation, a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. Together, we can create a legacy marked by innovation, excitement, and energy.

SUMMARY

About Ketjen

Ketjen Corporation is a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. Our company is driven by a strong set of core values: curiosity, care, collaboration, humility, accountability, and integrity. These values guide our decisions, shape our culture, and define how we work together to deliver exceptional value to our customers and communities.

About the Role

The Operations Finance Analyst provides financial analysis across manufacturing costs, productivity, operational performance, inventory, and capital expenditures. This role partners closely with the Operations Finance Leader and operations teams to deliver insights that support informed business decisions and improved manufacturing economics. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills, a solid finance foundation, and an interest in operations and manufacturing finance.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Operations Financial Analysis

• Provide financial analysis and decision support to the Operations Finance Leader and operations teams.
• Analyze manufacturing costs, production variances, yields, productivity, and other operational performance drivers.
• Build financial models, scenarios, and business cases to evaluate operational opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights and recommendations for business stakeholders.

Manufacturing Cost & Productivity

• Monitor manufacturing cost performance and identify key drivers of favorable and unfavorable results.
• Partner with site and operations teams to evaluate productivity initiatives and quantify expected and realized financial benefits.
• Support standard cost, variance, and cost-center analyses, including investigation of performance gaps.
• Develop recurring analyses and reporting that improve visibility into manufacturing economics and cost trends.

Inventory & Working Capital

• Analyze inventory levels, movements, valuation, reserves, obsolescence, and working capital performance.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance to identify opportunities to improve inventory efficiency.
• Support inventory forecasting, reconciliations, and performance reviews through accurate and timely analysis.
• Evaluate the financial impact of inventory decisions and communicate risks and opportunities.

Capital Effectiveness & Decision Support

• Support capital investment analysis, including business cases, return calculations, scenario modeling, and project tracking.
• Monitor capital spending and project financial performance against approved plans and forecasts.
• Create and maintain dashboards, reports, and analytical tools that provide actionable operations finance insights.
• Identify opportunities to improve or automate recurring reporting, data quality, and finance processes.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of finance experience, preferably in operations finance, manufacturing finance, cost accounting, financial planning and analysis, or a related discipline.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience working with large or complex data sets.
• Ability to connect financial results to operational drivers and communicate insights to financial and non-financial stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong alignment with Ketjen’s core values: curiosity, care, collaboration, humility, accountability, and integrity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience analyzing manufacturing costs, productivity, inventory, or capital expenditures.
• Experience in specialty chemicals, petrochemicals, refining, manufacturing, or another asset-intensive environment.
• Knowledge of standard costing, variance analysis, forecasting, and operational performance management.
• Experience with enterprise financial systems, manufacturing cost systems, Power BI, or other analytical tools.
• Demonstrated ability to improve or automate financial reporting and analytical processes.

Benefits of Joining Ketjen

• Competitive compensation

• Comprehensive benefits package

• A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.