Job Summary:
The Processing Technologies Business Unit is seeking a high-impact Senior Financial Analyst – Manufacturing & Materials FP&A to serve as the critical strategic bridge between operational shop-floor dynamics and enterprise-level financial planning. Partnering directly with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Executive Leadership, this role transforms large transactional datasets into strategic financial models, clear operational narratives, and actionable business decisions.
The ideal candidate is more than a reporting analyst: you are a proactive business driver who leverages deep data capabilities in Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and Oracle ERP to uncover cost drivers, mitigate manufacturing variance, improve working capital, and implement continuous process improvements across our operational footprint.
This role with help develop financial controls and processes to streamline financial reporting of Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet financial statements while working to support product execution with a practical mindset, driving the development, planning, forecasting, and analysis of financial performance of a high-tech, complex manufacturing environment with a high-growth business in the Aerospace and Defense industry.
This role reports to the Sr. Director, Finance and will support teams across multiple sites, including Andover, MA; Hudson, NH; Chantilly, VA & Phoenix, AZ.
Job Responsibilities:
- Data Aggregation, Business Intelligence & Financial Modeling
- Consolidate, synthesize, and automate complex datasets spanning multiple manufacturing facilities, bills of materials (BOM), standard costing systems, and supply chain logistics logs.
- Extract, manipulate, and audit transactional, inventory, and cost ledger data utilizing Oracle ERP (Cloud ERP, Amazon Datalake and PowerBI).
- Architect and deploy executive-ready, interactive Power BI dashboards that deliver real-time operational visibility into key manufacturing metrics (e.g., PPV, scrap rates, plant throughput, and labor absorption).
- Design and maintain sophisticated, scalable Excel financial models leveraging Power Query, dynamic arrays, scenario managers, and advanced formula architecture.
- Budgeting, Forecasting & Variance Analysis
- Direct the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), quarterly updates, and monthly rolling forecasts for manufacturing plants, direct material spend, freight, and conversion costs.
- Perform deep-dive variance analysis comparing standard vs. actual performance across Purchase Price Variance (PPV), Material Usage Variance (MUV),