FP&A Analyst – Operations

Position Summary

The Financial Analyst - Operations FP&A will support financial planning, reporting, and analysis for Roeslein Operations, focusing on project-based operations and manufacturing activities. This role works closely with the Director of FP&A, project managers, operations leaders, and finance leadership to improve financial performance, forecast accuracy, and identify risks and opportunities impacting profitability, working capital, and cash flow.

Responsibilities

• Support the annual budget process, monthly forecasting, and periodic reforecasting for revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, and cash flow.
• Analyze backlog, pipeline, project timing, and capacity utilization to support forward-looking revenue and margin projections.
• Partner with project managers and operations teams to develop and maintain accurate project forecasts, including Estimates at Completion (EACs).
• Monitor project financial performance, including revenue recognition, job costs, margin progression, change orders, and variance analysis.
• Identify cost overruns, margin erosion risks, billing issues, and cash flow timing concerns.
• Prepare monthly financial reporting packages, dashboards, KPI reporting, and financial analysis for senior leadership.
• Perform actual versus budget and actual versus forecast analysis and clearly explain key business drivers.
• Develop actionable insights related to margin trends, cost performance, operating efficiency, and cash flow.
• Support ad hoc analysis for finance, operations, and executive leadership as needed.
• Improve financial models, forecasting tools, and recurring reporting processes.
• Aid in ERP data quality, reporting automation, and better use of financial systems.
• Support the development and implementation of BI tools and dashboards where applicable.
• Help identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate finance reporting and analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
• 2-5 years of financial analysis, accounting, FP&A, project finance, or operations finance experience.
• Strong Excel skills, including financial modeling, pivot tables, lookups, and complex formulas.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and explain financial information to non-financial stakeholders.
• High attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Must be trustworthy and able to maintain confidential information.
• Must be responsible, reliable, and able to cooperate well with others.
• A valid driver's license and the ability to travel to St. Louis, MO is required.
• Must comply with Roeslein's core values for the business's safe and efficient operation and maintain sound relationships among and with employees.