Senior FP&A Analyst: Insights, Dashboards & Automation

Waters Corporation; Milford (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Waters Corporation is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Americas FP&A team in Milford, MA. You will support financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance analysis across the region, building scalable models and dashboards for insights and decision support.

The role partners with Marketing and Americas HQ, leveraging Excel, Power BI and AI tools to drive efficiency and accuracy in monthly and annual planning, while maintaining rigorous controls and clear executive-level

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of relevant finance experience with FP&A, forecasting, reporting.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including complex formulas, PivotTables, data modeling.
• Strong Power BI skills, with dashboards and data visualizations.
• Strong written and verbal communication across Finance and business functions.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines independently.

Responsibilities

• Support core FP&A activities, including the Annual Operating Plan, monthly forecasts, long-range planning, month-end analytics and periodic business reviews.
• Analyze revenue, margin, operating expenses, headcount and other key performance indicators; explain drivers, trends, risks and opportunities versus plan, forecast and prior periods.
• Build, maintain and improve financial models, management reports and dashboards that increase visibility, accuracy and decision support.
• Use advanced Excel and Power BI capabilities to automate recurring reporting, streamline data preparation and create intuitive, decision-ready analytics.
• Manage month-end processes, including reporting, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analysis, and collaboration with cross-functional teams on financial activities related to supported areas.
• Drive process improvements and efficiencies.
• Prepare concise financial commentary and executive-level presentations that connect reported results to business drivers and potential future implications.
• Partner with Marketing and Americas HQ stakeholders on budgets, forecasts, investment decisions, spending visibility and performance tracking while retaining ownership of core FP&A deliverables.
• Support ad hoc analyses, scenario modeling and strategic initiatives as business needs evolve.
• SAP, Analysis for Office and Power BI experience a plus.
• Use Copilot and AI tools to identify efficiencies, streamline processes, and generate insights that add value to the business.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Financial modeling

FP&A

Data analysis

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

Tools

SAP

Analysis for Office

Power BI

Job description

Waters Corporation is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Americas FP&A team in Milford, MA. You will support financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance analysis across the region, building scalable models and dashboards for insights and decision support.

The role partners with Marketing and Americas HQ, leveraging Excel, Power BI and AI tools to drive efficiency and accuracy in monthly and annual planning, while maintaining rigorous controls and clear executive-level