Financial Analyst

About the role

Beacon Recycling is seeking a Financial Analyst to transform complex operational and financial data into clear, reliable insights that drive better business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze profitability by location, product, customer, supplier, and operational activity.
• Maintain and improve Power BI dashboards.
• Create standardized KPI scorecards for recycling yards and shredder operation.
• Build executive dashboards to simplify complex information.
• Automate manual reporting processes.
• Reduce unnecessary spreadsheet work.
• Develop repeatable reporting processes that scale with Beacon's growth.
• Improve data consistency and reporting reliability.
• Establish practical data governance standards.
• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and eliminate manual processes.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.
• Assist with capital investment and return-on-investment analysis.
• Extract and validate information from ERP, scale, accounting, and operational systems.
• Investigate unusual results and reconcile data sources.
• Work directly with managers and operational leadership to understand performance drivers.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc analyses for management.
• Help leadership understand the reasons behind performance changes.
• Support sales contract information analysis.
• Build and maintain KPI scorecards for recycling yards and shredder operation.
• Develop practical data governance standards.
• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and eliminate unnecessary manual processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, Economics, Data Analytics, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in financial analysis, operations analysis, business analytics, FP&A, or a similar role.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including Power Query and complex data analysis.
• Experience building dashboards and reports using Power BI or a similar BI platform.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively with large and complex datasets.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain findings to both financial and operational teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing SQL queries.
• Manufacturing, industrial, recycling, commodities, logistics, or distribution experience.
• Knowledge of cost accounting, operational KPIs, or performance management.
• Experience with ERP systems and data integration tools.
• Familiarity with Python, Power Automate, or other analytical tools.