Senior Financial Analyst

PrideStaff Financial; Budd Lake (NJ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

PrideStaff Financial in Mount Olive, NJ, is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to bridge supply chain operations and commercial finance. You will build and maintain financial models, analyze gross margins, freight costs, and inventory metrics to optimize profitability across product lines.

The role partners with procurement, logistics, and sales leadership to support pricing, discounts, and deal-margin analysis while delivering monthly forecasts and executive dashboards.

Qualifications

• 6–9 years FP&A or business analysis with a focus on supply chain, inventory, global distribution or commercial finance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a quantitative field.
• Advanced Excel skills with ERP exposure and BI tools.

Responsibilities

• Partner with procurement, logistics and warehouse ops to monitor gross margins and freight costs.
• Track inventory velocity, turnover, and working capital trends to optimize stock levels.
• Analyze COGS variances and PO variances to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Model profitability across customer accounts, territories, product categories and channels.
• Support pricing, rebates, contracts, and deal-margin analysis with commercial leadership.
• Deliver monthly revenue/margin forecasts for commercial teams and track customer profitability.
• Build dynamic Excel models to simulate scenarios and pricing changes.
• Maintain KPI dashboards and executive reporting on margin trends and risks.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Detail-oriented

Communication skills

Financial modeling

Education

Bachelor's in Finance/Accounting/Economics

Tools

SAP

NetSuite

Oracle

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Senior Financial Analyst – Supply Chain & Commercial Finance

• Location: Mount Olive, NJ (Onsite)

About the role:

The Senior Financial Analyst will serve as a key business partner bridging supply chain operations and sales strategy at our Mount Olive headquarters. This high-impact role focuses on inventory financial modeling, global logistics/freight cost analytics, product margin optimization, and sales performance tracking to maximize bottom-line profitability across our product lines.

Key Responsibilities

Supply Chain & Inventory FP&A

• Partner closely with procurement, logistics, and warehouse operations to monitor and analyze gross margins, freight costs, importing expenses, and landing costs.
• Track inventory velocity, turnover, dynamic holding costs, and working capital trends to optimize stock levels and cash flow.
• Analyze cost of goods sold (COGS) variances, purchase order variances, and operational supply chain metrics to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Track, model, and report on profitability across customer accounts, sales territories, product categories, and distribution channels.
• Partner with commercial leadership to support pricing strategies, rebate structures, contract modeling, and deal-margin analysis.
• Evaluate customer acquisition profitability and deliver monthly revenue/margin forecasting packages for commercial teams.
• Build and maintain flexible, dynamic quantitative models in Excel to simulate operational scenarios, logistics impact, and volume pricing changes.
• Maintain operational KPI dashboards and executive reporting decks highlighting margin trends and operational risks/opportunities.
• Collaborate with IT and finance leadership to refine data integrity, reporting workflows, and inventory tracking within ERP systems.

Qualifications

• Experience: 6-9 years of progressive FP&A or business analysis experience, with a heavy background in supply chain, inventory, global distribution, or commercial/sales finance.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a quantitative business field.
• Technical Skills: Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency (complex modeling, dynamic arrays, pivot tables) paired with hands-on ERP experience (SAP, NetSuite, Oracle) and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau).
• Core Competencies: Strong analytical drive, high attention to detail, and the communication skills to translate operational logistics data into actionable insights for leadership.