Financial Business Analyst

About the role

Your Job Smiths Interconnect, a Molex company, is seeking a Financial Business Analyst in our Irving, Texas location. You will join a dynamic team that works closely with business leaders to strengthen our workplace culture and drive operational excellence.

What You Will Do

• Reporting to the Finance Director and supporting the Semi Test BU team across financial reporting & pricing, contributing to revenue and margin growth and driving improved forecast accuracy.
• Collaborate with business partners & analyst peers to ensure consistency & best practice in partnering with stakeholders.
• Review and supply advice on opportunities to ensure continuous enhancement of our business partnering, to drive growth.
• Work with other areas including Operations and Finance teams, to ensure we are aligned and working collaboratively.
• Ensure strong governance & control around the pricing & business partnering processes & reporting.
• Work with the business systems team to identify & evaluate system needs to enhance the pricing process and management reporting to both monitor & drive improvements in business & individual performance.
• Act as the day-to-day Finance Business Partner to the Semi-Test leadership and commercial teams, providing financial insight to support pricing, customer decisions, product mix, and investment trade-offs.
• Partner with Sales, Product Line Managers, and Operations to identify risks and opportunities, and help translate financial results into clear actions.
• Support pricing and margin discussions by analyzing product, customer, and market profitability.
• Provide insight into new products, new customers, and new markets, helping leaders understand performance trends and implications.
• Support bookings and sales forecasting in collaboration with Commercial teams as part of the S&OP process.
• Monitor and analyze the CRM pipeline, sales funnel, and distributor POS data to support demand planning and outlook accuracy.
• Evaluate forecast changes and variances, clearly communicating drivers and assumptions.
• Support Sales Incentive Plan calculations & communication.
• Own monthly orders, sales, and margin reporting, including clear explanations of performance versus prior year, budget, and forecast.
• Partner with the Finance Director to ensure timely, accurate, and well-explained month-end close outputs.
• Develop and deliver management reporting that is decision-oriented, not just backward-looking.
• Support the development of the annual operating plan and budget process for Semi-Test.
• Work with Finance, Operations, and Business Systems teams to improve reporting, forecasting tools, and processes.
• Ensure strong governance and consistency across pricing, forecasting, and reporting processes.
• Own monthly orders, sales, and margin reporting – working with the business team to explain movements to prior year, budget, and latest forecast.
• Manage bookings & sales forecasts, as part of the S&OP process.
• Understand risks & opportunities to forecast (with relevant action plans).
• Evaluate and monitor progress on sales relating to new products, new customers, or new markets.
• Review product line margin performance, creating insights to both price & cost structure.
• Analyze the point of sale (POS) data from the distributor network.
• Aid in development of annual operating budget plan.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Preferred 2-4 years’ experience in a similar role with a history of success.
• Occasional business travel needed (5%, as needed).
• Knowledge of Salesforce, Glovia ERP, Power BI, Epicor ERP preferable but not essential.
• Confident communication, ability to challenge business teams effectively.
• Ability to balance short term demands with a long term, strategic agenda.
• Comfortable to work in rapidly changing environment.
• Excel, Glovia / Epicor ERP, Salesforce, Power BI.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Security: Please State if US Citizen or permanent Resident Required
• US Citizenship preferred - Yes

Who We Are

Your Job Smiths Interconnect, a Molex company, is part of Molex’s Aerospace & Defense Solutions Division and represents the Signal Technologies business unit. Smiths Interconnect delivers mission-critical connectivity solutions—including ruggedized connectors, cable assemblies, Fiber & RF, and high-reliability technologies—designed to perform in the most demanding environments. From aerospace and defense to space, medical, and industrial applications, our innovative products enable reliability where it matters most. Join a passionate, global team helping shape the future of high-reliability interconnect solutions.

At Koch

We empower our employees to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Hiring Philosophy

We value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.