Senior FP&A Analyst - Manufacturing & Cost Optimization

Tronair; Swanton Township (OH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tronair is seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst to analyze and interpret financial data to advise strategic decision making and support planning, forecasting, and management reporting.

You will partner with operations and functional leaders to drive performance and ensure compliance with policies and controls. The role covers manufacturing finance, cost analysis, budgeting, standard-cost rolls, inventory valuation, and profitability analysis across products and channels, with emphasis on actionable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field.
• 4-6 years of progressive financial analysis, FP&A, manufacturing finance or related experience.
• Manufacturing or cost-accounting experience is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience supporting budgeting, forecasting and monthly performance reporting.
• Financial-modeling and intermediate Excel capabilities.
• Experience with ERP, financial-planning, consolidation or business-intelligence tools.
• Power BI, SQL or similar data-analysis experience preferred.
• Ability to interpret financial and operational data and develop actionable recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and constructively challenge business assumptions.

Responsibilities

• Support the annual budget, periodic forecasting and long-range strategic-planning processes.
• Assist in maintaining financial models and forecast schedules covering revenue, margin, operating expenses, headcount, capital expenditures and working capital.
• Perform scenario and sensitivity analysis to support operational and strategic decisions.
• Assist in preparing monthly management reporting packages.
• Analyze business performance and clearly explain the operational drivers behind financial results.
• Improve forecast accuracy and reporting usefulness through continuous review of assumptions, drivers and processes.
• Analyze purchase-price, material-usage, labor, overhead, productivity and yield variances.
• Support the annual standard-cost roll and ongoing evaluation of standard versus actual costs.
• Analyze inventory valuation, inventory reserves and inventory roll-forwards in partnership with Accounting and Operations.
• Support cycle counts and physical-inventory activities.
• Perform product, customer and channel profitability analysis.
• Support make-versus-buy sourcing, pricing, cost-reduction and margin-expansion initiatives.
• Partner with Operations, Purchasing and Engineering to understand performance drivers and recommend corrective actions.

Skills

Financial analysis

FP&A

Budgeting

Forecasting

Excel

Data analysis

Communication skills

Education

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

Tools

Power BI

SQL

ERP systems

BI tools

Job description

Tronair is seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst to analyze and interpret financial data to advise strategic decision making and support planning, forecasting, and management reporting.

You will partner with operations and functional leaders to drive performance and ensure compliance with policies and controls. The role covers manufacturing finance, cost analysis, budgeting, standard-cost rolls, inventory valuation, and profitability analysis across products and channels, with emphasis on actionable