Senior Financial Analyst, Reporting & Analytics

Valmont Industries; Nebraska; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Valmont Industries is seeking a senior finance reporting and analytics resource to support the Utility business and broader Finance organization. The role combines technical reporting expertise with business acumen to improve financial visibility and automate reporting.

You will lead or support dashboards, KPI reporting, forecasting, and leadership reporting packages, while partnering with IT Data teams and business stakeholders to ensure data quality and governance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in finance, reporting, analytics, FP&A, operations finance, or business support roles.
• Experience leading or supporting recurring financial reporting, dashboards, KPI reporting, forecasting support, and management reporting.
• Experience leveraging business intelligence and automation.

Responsibilities

• Operate in a matrixed finance reporting model, partnering closely with utility finance and FP&A teams to support accurate business-relevant reporting.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled tools, BI platforms, and reporting automation technologies to improve efficiency.
• Lead and support recurring financial and operational reporting, dashboards, analytical models, and leadership reporting packages.
• Translate business needs into clear reporting requirements, KPI views, dashboards, and outputs while aligning with standards and data governance.
• Perform and review hands-on analysis of revenue, margin, backlog, invoicing, working capital, and cost performance.
• Provide technical leadership and prioritization for reporting and analytics while remaining involved in development and data validation.
• Partner with stakeholders to improve data quality, automate reporting, and advance scalable analytics and AI capabilities.
• Support forecasting, monthly reviews, product line reporting, and balance sheet reporting with actionable insights.
• Communicate clearly with leaders at multiple levels and convert complex analyses into concise insights.

Skills

Finance analytics

Analytics

FP&A

Operations finance

Business intelligence

Education

B.S. degree in Accounting/Finance/Analytics

Tools

BI platforms

Job description

Why Valmont

We’re Here to Move the World Forward.

Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. We are the modern workforce. Are you ready to move the world forward?

A Brief Summary of This Position:

This position reports through a matrixed structure to the Utility Finance Business Partnership organization and the Director of Financial Reporting and serves as a senior finance reporting and analytics resource supporting the Utility business and broader Finance organization. The role is expected to provide technical leadership and guidance while remaining a hands-on contributor within the reporting and analytics organization. This role may provide coaching, prioritization support, and informal leadership for reporting resources as the function grows. Strong candidates will bring experience in financial reporting, FP&A, business intelligence, automation, KPI development, AI-enabled technologies, and cross-functional partnership. The role combines technical reporting expertise with business acumen to improve financial visibility, advance reporting automation and AI adoption, reduce manual effort, support standardized reporting, and translate data into decision-ready insights that drive better business outcomes.

Essential Functions:

• Operate in a matrixed finance reporting model, partnering closely with the Utility Finance Business Partner organization, Director of Financial Reporting, FP&A, operations, commercial, accounting, and IT Data teams to support accurate business-relevant reporting.


• Drive adoption of AI-enabled tools, business intelligence platforms, and reporting automation technologies to improve reporting efficiency, enhance insight generation, reduce manual effort, and support continuous improvement across finance processes.


• Lead and support recurring financial and operational reporting, dashboards, analytical models, and leadership reporting packages used in forecasting, business reviews, and performance management.


• Translate Utility business needs into clear reporting requirements, KPI views, dashboard priorities, and analytical outputs while ensuring alignment with enterprise reporting standards, data definitions, governance expectations, and single-source-of-truth principles.


• Perform and review hands-on analysis of financial and operational data, including revenue, margin, backlog, invoicing, working capital, cost performance, productivity, forecast-to-actual results, and business driver trends.


• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and prioritization support for reporting and analytics activities while remaining directly involved in report development, data validation, process improvement, and analytical problem solving.


• Partner with Financial Reporting, IT Data, and business stakeholders to improve data quality, automate manual reporting, and advance scalable reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities.


• Support forecasting, AOP, monthly business reviews, product line reporting, balance sheet reporting, backlog/invoicing visibility, and ad hoc leadership analysis by connecting reporting outputs to risks, opportunities, trends, and business implications.


• Communicate clearly with leaders at multiple levels, challenge data assumptions when needed, elevate reporting issues appropriately, and convert complex analyses into concise, practical insights that improve decision quality and business follow-through.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Analytics, Data Analytics, or related field with 5+ years of relevant experience in finance, reporting, analytics, FP&A, operations finance, or business support roles.


• Experience leading or supporting recurring financial reporting, dashboards, KPI reporting, forecasting support, and management reporting.


• Experience leveraging business intelligence, automatio