Job Details
Job title: Sr Finance Operations Analyst
Location: Eden Prairie, MN
Status: Permanent, Full time
Summary: The Senior Financial Analyst position s main responsibilities will be to:
- Operate as a trusted and strategic financial partner for the Eden Prairie Operations organization, supporting Operations leadership and the manufacturing, supply chain, sourcing, planning, new product introduction, and quality departments.
- Perform analysis and understand key business drivers to provide clear, concise, and timely recommendations.
- Refine large quantities of information into concise, useful, and meaningful management reporting, with an importance on providing timely and accurate answers to key business questions.
- Participate in the preparation and compilation of the annual operating plan which includes production and expense projections.
- Prepare leadership presentations, quarterly business reviews, and AOP presentations.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (Other duties may be assigned):
- Support business leaders with annual budget development and ongoing budgetary control processes to ensure that objectives are met while working within the budget framework.
- Perform monthly and quarterly budget to actual variance analysis and understand key business issues to provide clear, concise and timely recommendations for actions.
- Support business leaders with ongoing analysis of BOM and COGS costs and recommendations for actions.
- Perform analysis and understand the full cost model to include impacts involving production plans, S&OP, earned hours, and absorption.
- Assist in creation of business cases for changes involving product, process, vendor, or other items, as well as valuation and justification for capital expenditures.
- Support internal business leaders by meeting their financial reporting and ad-hoc analysis needs.
- Participate in the administration and upgrade of planning/reporting tools and applications.
- Actively participate on cross-functional teams to resolve a wide variety of problems or to create new processes.
- Work closely with the Global Operations finance team to align with global standards and update processes to support local Operations.
- Supports a culture of continuous improvement in day-to-day activities.
- Demonstrates commitment to client Core Values by leading, acting and behaving in a manner consistent with these values.
- Follows all company safety policies and procedures and attend all safety trainings related to the job.
Essential Education, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor s degree in Finance or related field
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in Finance/Accounting.
- Exceptional analytical, quantitative and problem solving skills.
- Ability to effectively communicate with various managers and senior leaders across the company.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office applications: Excel, PowerPoint, Word
- Prior experience in Oracle ERP and Qliksense or other BI tools (preferred)
- Must be a self-starter and comfortable working independently.
- Must be comfortable working in a fast paced, growth-oriented environment.
- Ability to work well with others.