Senior Financial Analyst – Manufacturing, Growth & Equity

Nashoba Valley Chamber of Commerce; Harvard (MA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

VulcanForms is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support financial planning, operational performance analysis, and strategic reporting within a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This role partners with Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, and Leadership to improve visibility into plant performance, product profitability, and business trends.

You will develop monthly forecasts, budgets, and long-range plans; analyze costs, variances, and profitability; and build financial models for pricing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in financial analysis and manufacturing analytics.
• Hands-on experience with ERP systems in manufacturing.
• Advanced Excel skills including Power Query, Pivot tables, and financial modeling.

Responsibilities

• Develop monthly forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range financial plans
• Analyze revenue, gross margin, material costs, labor costs, burden absorption, and manufacturing variances
• Perform detailed variance analysis between standard cost vs. actual cost, forecast vs. actual results, production plan vs. operational output
• Support monthly close through financial reporting and business performance reviews
• Build financial models to evaluate pricing decisions, capital investments, capacity utilization, customer profitability
• Analyze manufacturing performance including labor efficiency, scrap rates, purchase price variance, inventory turns, on-time delivery, throughput
• Track backlog, bookings, and shipments to improve revenue visibility
• Partner with operations leaders to identify cost savings and process improvements
• Monitor inventory valuation and excess/obsolete inventory exposure
• Support SIOP / demand planning with financial insights
• Extract and analyze data from Epicor ERP
• Develop and maintain financial dashboards, KPI scorecards, Operational performance reporting
• Build automated reporting in Microsoft Power BI
• Support forecasting and planning processes in Workday Adaptive Planning
• Improve data integrity across item costing, BOM structures, labor reporting, inventory transactions
• Assist with report writing, BAQs, and data validation in Epicor

Skills

ERP systems

Advanced Excel

Financial analysis

Manufacturing analytics

SQL

Power BI

Workday Adaptive Planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Epicor ERP

Workday Adaptive Planning

Job description

VulcanForms is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support financial planning, operational performance analysis, and strategic reporting within a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This role partners with Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, and Leadership to improve visibility into plant performance, product profitability, and business trends.

You will develop monthly forecasts, budgets, and long-range plans; analyze costs, variances, and profitability; and build financial models for pricing