Strategic Cost & Operations Finance Analyst

URUS Group; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

URUS is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst in Cost & Operations to shape how we analyze costs, performance, and data into actionable insights. You’ll work across finance, production, R&D, product, and innovation to improve financial visibility and decision‑making.

You will dig into production costs, COGS, margins, and cost per unit, building models for CAPEX and business cases while advancing reporting and automation. This role offers growth within URUS’ expanding matrixed environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
• Experience in manufacturing finance or FP&A.
• Proficient in Excel and data analysis with large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Analyze production costs, COGS, inventory, margins, and unit cost drivers.
• Identify cost drivers across labor, materials, yield, overhead, and product mix.
• Perform variance analysis and translate findings into actionable insights.
• Support costing processes: standard costing, allocations, BOM analysis, inventory valuation.
• Collaborate with finance, production, R&D, product, and innovation teams.
• Assist budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning for production and innovation.
• Build financial models for business cases, CAPEX, product economics, and make-versus-buy.
• Improve reporting, dashboards, and recurring financial processes.
• Leverage technology and AI-enabled tools to enhance analysis and reporting.

Skills

Excel

Financial modeling

Data analysis

ERP systems

Power BI

Cost accounting

Variance analysis

Manufacturing finance

Education

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

Tools

JD Edwards

HFM

Job description

URUS is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst in Cost & Operations to shape how we analyze costs, performance, and data into actionable insights. You’ll work across finance, production, R&D, product, and innovation to improve financial visibility and decision‑making.

You will dig into production costs, COGS, margins, and cost per unit, building models for CAPEX and business cases while advancing reporting and automation. This role offers growth within URUS’ expanding matrixed environment.