Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

Erie Strayer Company; Erie (Erie County); On-site; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Erie Strayer is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A, to lead budgeting, forecasting, and profitability analysis across revenue, costs, and EBITDA. You will partner with Sales, Engineering, Operations, and Finance to deliver actionable insights, support pricing decisions, and improve financial visibility for growth opportunities.

Strong modeling and cross-functional collaboration are essential. The role emphasizes scenario analysis, dashboard reporting, and capital planning alignment with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics, or related field.
• 5 to 7 years of FP&A, financial analysis, cost analysis, or related analytical experience.
• Strong financial modeling skills including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and profitability analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills and comfort with ERP, CRM, reporting, or BI data.
• Ability to partner cross-functionally with Sales, Engineering, Operations, and Finance.
• High attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support the annual budgeting process, monthly forecasting, and P&L analysis.
• Partner with Sales and Engineering to provide financial analysis and decision support.
• Provide pricing decision support, margin modeling, and profitability analysis.
• Evaluate quotes and bids for revenue, cost, and profitability impact.
• Analyze job, customer, and product profitability to identify trends and improvements.
• Build backlog, bookings, win-rate, capacity, and throughput analytics.
• Support capital planning, business case analysis, and project tracking.
• Develop capacity, labor, production, and throughput models for planning.
• Perform scenario analyses on pricing, volume, and costs.
• Prepare dashboards and ad hoc analyses communicating insights to stakeholders.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting & forecasting

Profitability analysis

Pricing analysis

Financial modeling

Advanced Excel

Cross-functional partnership

Education

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

Tools

ERP systems

CRM systems

BI tools / dashboards

Job description

Erie Strayer is a U.S.-based manufacturer of concrete batch plants and related equipment serving customers across construction, infrastructure, ready-mix, and industrial markets. Based in Erie, Pennsylvania, the company has a long-standing reputation for engineering durable, customized equipment and supporting customers through design, manufacturing, installation, parts, and service. As a private-equity-backed business, Erie Strayer is focused on scalable growth, operational discipline, stronger financial visibility, and continuous improvement across the organization. The company is investing in stronger financial processes, improved reporting, better systems, and enhanced cross-functional accountability to support its next stage of growth and long-term value creation.

Position Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A will support Erie Strayer’s financial planning, operational analysis, and business decision-making processes, with a primary focus on P&L budgeting, forecasting, profitability analysis, pricing support, and commercial and operational analytics. Reporting to the Controller, this role will partner closely with Sales, Engineering, Operations, and Finance to provide timely, accurate, and actionable analysis that improves visibility into performance, supports better pricing and bid decisions, and strengthens the company’s ability to plan for growth. The ideal candidate is analytically strong, highly curious, comfortable working with operational data, and able to translate financial information into practical recommendations for business leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the annual budgeting process, monthly forecasting, and recurring P&L analysis, including revenue, margin, operating expense, and EBITDA performance.
• Serve as a finance business partner to Sales and Engineering by providing financial analysis, reporting, and decision support for commercial, quoting, project, and product-related activities.
• Provide pricing decision support, including margin modeling, price-volume-mix analysis, competitive considerations, discount analysis, and evaluation of profitability trade-offs.
• Support quote and bid analysis by evaluating expected revenue, cost, margin, capacity impact, risk factors, and alignment with company profitability targets.
• Analyze job, customer, and product profitability to identify trends, margin leakage, pricing opportunities, and operational improvement areas.
• Develop and maintain backlog, bookings, win-rate, pipeline, and conversion analytics to improve visibility into demand, revenue timing, and sales effectiveness.
• Support capital planning and management, including business case analysis, capital project tracking, post-investment reviews, and alignment of capital spend with strategic priorities.
• Build and maintain capacity, labor, production, and throughput models to support planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and constraint identification.
• Perform scenario and sensitivity analysis to evaluate changes in pricing, volume, mix, labor capacity, material costs, backlog timing, and other business drivers.
• Prepare recurring dashboards, reporting packages, and ad hoc analyses that clearly communicate key financial and operational insights to Finance, Sales, Engineering, Operations, and leadership.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics, or a related field.
• 5 to 7 years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, cost analysis, commercial finance, operations finance, or a related analytical role.
• Strong financial modeling skills, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, scenario analysis, and profitability analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills and comfort working with ERP, CRM, reporting, or business intelligence data.
• Ability to partner cross-functionally with Sales, Engineering, Operations, and Finance to gather data, understand business drivers, and communicate insights.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical curiosity, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a hands-on environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing, job-cost, project-based, engineer-to-order, custom equipment, or industrial services environments.
• Experience supporting pricing, quoting, bid analysis, product profitability, or commercial decision-making.
• Advanced Excel skills with the ability to build reliable models, dashboards, and recurring reports today, while helping introduce BI, ERP reporting, CRM, or other data visualization tools over time.
• Exposure to private-equity-backed, growth-oriented, or process improvement-focused environments.

Core Competencies

• Strong analytical and financial modeling capability with the ability to identify key business drivers.
• Commercial and operational mindset with a focus on practical decision support.
• Clear communication style, including the ability to explain analysis to non-finance stakeholders.
• High attention to detail, data accuracy, and follow-through.
• Comfort working in a growing, hands-on environment with evolving processes and priorities.

Success Measures

• Establishes reliable P&L forecasting and variance analysis that improves visibility into revenue, margin, and operating performance.
• Provides meaningful pricing, quote, bid, and profitability analysis that supports better commercial decisions.
• Builds useful backlog, bookings, win-rate, capacity, and throughput reporting that helps leadership understand demand and execution constraints.
• Improves the quality, timeliness, and consistency of financial and operational reporting used by Sales, Engineering, Operations, and Finance.
• Develops scenario and sensitivity models that help leadership evaluate growth, pricing, capacity, and investment decisions.