Senior Financial Analyst

Position Overview

Hexion is hiring a Senior Financial Analyst to lead the application of AI and modern analytics across our Global FP&A function. We are looking for a builder who has already delivered measurable wins with AI tools and now wants to apply that capability to the world of finance.

Roughly a third of the role is grounded in traditional FP&A.

• Supports the monthly close
• Buils budgets and forecasts
• Produces management and variance reporting
• Partners with the business on profitability and scenario planning

Job Responsibilities

• AI Solution Building & Demonstrated Impact
• Deploy AI-enabled finance solutions — automating recurring analysis, accelerating close cycles, improving forecast accuracy, and unlocking new analytical depth that wasn’t feasible before
• Own the lifecycle — from identifying a high-value use cases, to prototyping with modern AI tools, to validating outputs and shipping a reliable, repeatable workflow
• Champion AI best practices across Finance — prompt and agent design, model validation, data quality, and responsible, auditable AI use
• Continuously expand the toolkit by replacing manual, error-prone processes with smarter, faster, more scalable approaches — and measuring the impact
• Analytics & Data
• Turn messy, large-scale datasets into insights using AI tools (Microsoft Cowork, Copilot Studio) building dashboards and pipelines that the business can trust
• Translate analytical output into clear narratives — what changed, why it changed, and what we should do about it
• Applied Finance & Commercial Partnership
• Apply your solutions to real financial problems — profitability analysis across products, customers, and regions; scenario planning; and forecasting that stress-tests pricing, volume, and raw material assumptions
• Possess a deep understanding of the business and partner with commercial teams (Sales, Marketing, Product Management) to translate financial and analytical signals into pricing, mix, and go-to-market actions
• Drive consensus across functions when the data points to a tough call, bringing stakeholders along with rigor and clarity

What You’ll Bring

• AI Capabilities & Demonstrated Wins
• A demonstrated track record of deploying solutions with modern AI tools (Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, custom agents, or similar) that delivered measurable results — be ready to show what you built and the impact it had
• Hands-on fluency designing and refining prompts, chaining AI into workflows, and validating outputs for accuracy and reliability
• Strong technical foundation: Power BI / Power Query, with the ability to work across large, complex datasets and enterprise systems (SAP a plus)
• A builder’s instinct — you spot a manual process and automate it, and you measure the value you create
• Finance Experience or Background
• Experience in or genuine working knowledge of financial analysis — profitability, P&L modeling, scenario planning, or forecasting. This can come from a finance role, an adjacent analytical role, or strong self-directed work
• Roughly 5 years of professional experience overall, with meaningful exposure to financial or commercial problems
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills, or the demonstrated ability to ramp quickly
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related). Industrial, chemicals, or manufacturing exposure a plus
• Mindset & Soft Skills
• Curious by default — you ask “why” and “what if,” and you’re always testing the next tool or technique
• Acts with autonomy — you don’t wait to be told what to build next; you find the problem worth solving
• Drives consensus — you can hold a point of view and bring people along, especially when the answer is uncomfortable
• Partners well with commercial teams — you speak their language, respect their pace, and earn their trust
• Bias toward action — you’d rather ship a useful 80% answer this week than a perfect one next quarter

Why Hexion

Hexion is a global leader in thermoset resins, serving customers across construction, automotive, electronics, and industrial markets. Our Finance team sits at the heart of how we steer the business — and we are investing in the people and tools to make Finance faster, sharper, and more strategic.

We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a rare opportunity to define how a global industrial leader puts AI to work — with the autonomy to build, the data to matter, and a finance organization eager to adopt what you create.