Senior Analyst, Operations Finance

About the role

The Senior Analyst, Operations Finance plays a crucial role in supporting financial reporting, forecasting, and performance analysis across Operations and Cost of Goods Sold (COGS). This role involves owning core reporting processes, maintaining and building scalable analytical tools, and partnering with various teams to explain financial performance and improve visibility into key cost drivers.

Responsibilities

• Own recurring month-end Operations and COGS reporting packages, including preparation, validation, and distribution of reporting packages.
• Develop reporting packages and perform detailed variance analysis across material costs, manufacturing costs, site performance, product mix, and other key operations metrics.
• Partner with Accounting and Operations to investigate material variances and ensure financial results are accurately understood.
• Maintain reporting schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
• Identify opportunities to automate and standardize recurring reporting processes.
• Maintain tools used to track productivity initiatives, realized savings, project timing and forecast impacts.
• Partner with project owners to validate assumptions and update financial impacts.
• Reconcile productivity results between project tracking, forecasts, and actual financial performance.
• Highlight risks, timing shifts, and gaps against productivity projects.
• Support development of reporting that improves visibility into the productivity pipeline.
• Support ongoing financial planning processes by providing in-depth analysis and actionable insights aimed at improving the visibility and accuracy of COGS.
• Collaborate across functions to ensure that all operational projects are accurately integrated into financial models and planning processes by tracking the financial impact of ongoing initiatives and making necessary adjustments to plans.
• Prepare ad hoc analyses to support operational decisions and financial reviews.
• Build effective working relationships across Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Operations.
• Support cost analysis for operational initiatives and business cases.
• Develop dashboards and analytical tools that improve reporting accuracy, efficiency, and usability.

Requirements

• 2+ years of relevant experience in consulting, finance, accounting, or related quantitative fields.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, with strong analytical skills and proficiency in financial modeling.
• Familiarity with Netsuite, BI, CRM, and financial planning applications.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Outstanding communication (both verbal and written) and relationship management skills.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Experience with manufacturing or consumer products is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience with manufacturing or consumer products is a plus.

Skills

• Advanced Excel skills.
• Financial modeling proficiency.
• Familiarity with Netsuite, BI, CRM, and financial planning applications.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Outstanding communication (both verbal and written) and relationship management skills.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401K with a 6% match.
• Monthly reimbursements for wellness and home office.
• Unlimited PTO and 15+ paid holidays.
• Hybrid and flexible remote schedule.
• Chicago office open to those in the area.
• Paid maternity and paternity leave.
• Company-wide continual education budget.
• Unlimited snacks: enough meat sticks that if you wanted to eat your body weight in them you could (no judgment here).

Pay

The salary range for this role is $75,000 - $85,000 + 10% annual bonus.

Schedule

This role is full-time, exempt.