Senior Financial Analyst

Location: Cressona, PA (Onsite)

Why This Role

Join a financially stable, global manufacturing organization with significant scale, complexity, and long-term growth opportunities.

Benefits & Perks

• Medical, prescription, dental, disability, and life insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Retirement savings plans with company match and/or contributions
• Bonus plan eligibility
• Education assistance
• Parental leave

Company Overview

Our client is a large, global manufacturing enterprise with more than 30,000 employees worldwide and operations across North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. The organization operates an extensive international production footprint and serves a broad range of industrial markets through advanced manufacturing, engineering, and R&D capabilities.

With a strong emphasis on safety, operational excellence, and continuous improvement, our client offers the resources of a global company while maintaining accountability and impact at the plant level.

Position Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst plays a key role in supporting plant-level financial operations within a large, complex global organization. Reporting directly to the Controller, this position ensures accurate and timely financial reporting while delivering actionable insights to operations and leadership.

This role is intentionally designed as a succession path to the Controller position, providing broad exposure to financial planning, cost accounting, manufacturing KPIs, capital investment analysis, and operational finance within a global enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting & Close

• Support and execute monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities, including P&L, capital base, and cash from operations
• Analyze actual results versus budget and forecast on a monthly basis
• Prepare financial reports and presentation materials for plant leadership and corporate stakeholders

Operations & Cost Accounting

• Partner with plant leadership and line managers to provide financial analysis and decision support
• Perform standard cost and variance analysis; maintain cost data within SAP
• Conduct cost studies, item-level analysis, and customer profitability analysis
• Support semi-annual physical inventory counts and reconcile results to the general ledger
• Perform annual fixed asset inventory and support capital expenditure tracking

Planning, Controls & Compliance

• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and annual business planning in alignment with corporate finance requirements
• Support compliance with global financial policies, internal controls, and audit standards
• Provide financial data and analysis for capital appropriation requests
• Support internal and external audits as needed

General Support

• Approve vouchers for payment and support payroll coding accuracy
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional projects and process improvement initiatives
• Respond to ad hoc financial and operational reporting requests
• Maintain a professional, collaborative, and positive approach
• Extended hours may be required during month-end close or peak reporting periods

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• 5+ years of progressive experience in financial analysis or accounting
• Strong background in a manufacturing or plant-based environment
• Demonstrated experience operating within a large, multi-site or global organization
• Deep knowledge of:
• Standard costing and variance analysis
• Inventory valuation, reconciliation, and movement analysis
• Manufacturing KPIs and operational metrics
• Capital expenditure tracking
• Internal controls and audit support
• ERP experience required (SAP and/or Oracle preferred)

Preferred Skills & Attributes

• Experience in a fast-paced, matrixed manufacturing environment
• Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable business insights
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence both plant-level and corporate stakeholders
• Self-starter capable of leading monthly reporting cycles and special projects with minimal oversight
• High accountability, execution discipline, and attention to detail