Financial Analyst - Procurement Indirect Spend

Applications will be accepted through 04 October.

About the role

When you work at Daktronics, you’ll be part of something amazing. We design, engineer, manufacture and support bold, eye-catching digital LED display technology and audio systems. Our products bring excitement to professional, college and high school games. They attract customers for businesses around the world, and even provide direction for people as they travel, work and play. As part of the Daktronics team, you’ll have interesting, impactful work with flexible opportunities. You can learn and grow at a company that provides competitive compensation and meaningful benefits – and the people are second to none. The Finance team helps strengthen business performance by providing financial insight, disciplined planning, and cross-functional partnership. This role will work closely with Procurement, Treasury, Accounting, FP&A, and business leaders to improve visibility, decision-making, profitability, and cash generation. Position has opportunity to work from a US Based home office. This position is open to candidates eligible to work in United States.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Finance, Procurement, Treasury, Accounting, and business leaders to set targets, track indirect spend, and measure savings, cost reduction, value creation, and working capital improvements.
• Analyze spend across suppliers, categories, cost centers, business units, functions, projects, and regions to identify risks, opportunities, trends, contract leakage, supplier concentration, and delayed savings realization.
• Validate realized savings, cost avoidance, supplier rebates, productivity gains, cash flow impacts, and other financial results from improvement initiatives.
• Use spend-cube analytics, financial models, and business cases to prioritize opportunities and support supplier negotiations, contract changes, renewals, demand management, and service-level decisions.
• Lead analysis, forecasting, reporting, and scenario planning for DPO, supplier payment terms, working capital, cash flow, indirect spend, cost reduction, and the financial strategic plan.
• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards, KPI scorecards, supplier reporting, executive packages, variance analysis, and clear narratives explaining savings, margin improvement, working capital changes, and forecast-to-actual performance.
• Present insights and recommendations to leaders, constructively challenge assumptions, and influence cross-functional decisions that improve purchasing discipline, supplier performance, profitability, cash generation, controls, and business decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting, simplify processes, strengthen controls, and improve business decision-making; perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering, Data Analytics, Business, or a related field.
• Three‑seven (3–7) years of experience in FP&A, indirect spend finance, procurement finance, consulting, operations finance, cost improvement, or a related discipline.
• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, analytical, and structured problem‑solving skills.