Corporate FP&A Analyst

Bracalente Manufacturing Group - Trumbauersville, PA

Full-time - Mid Level

Trumbauersville, PA

Repair and Maintenance

About the position

Bracalente Manufacturing Group is seeking a Corporate FP&A Analyst to join their team in Trumbauersville, PA. This full-time position will report directly to the CFO and will play a crucial role in supporting the financial and operational growth of the company. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing comprehensive business and operational analysis, as well as tactical financial support to the CFO and senior management team. This role is fully on-site and requires a dynamic individual who can thrive in a fast-paced, high-energy environment. The FP&A Analyst will be tasked with compiling and consolidating all reporting information, including monthly and quarterly reports, forecasts, and budgets. The candidate will deliver detailed analysis and reporting of the business's actual financial results, highlighting variances to budgets and forecasts while ensuring that key issues, risks, and business drivers are clearly understood and communicated. Additionally, the analyst will assist the CFO in preparing internal reports, including monthly and quarterly analytics and executive summaries, focusing on the Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss statements, and cash flow analysis. Another key responsibility will be to enhance management reporting capabilities and internal analysis to better understand the profitability drivers across various channels, services, and customers. This includes developing customer and product profitability metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). The FP&A Analyst will also oversee the annual budgeting process for all business segments, helping the CFO set and achieve long-term financial goals aligned with the company's strategic objectives. The role will involve managing working capital, monitoring cash balances, and implementing policies to optimize working capital. The analyst will be responsible for cash flow and liquidity forecasting and reporting, as well as supporting annual renewals for global insurance and risk management programs. Continuous process improvement will be a focus, particularly in enhancing reporting tools through best practices, standardization, and automation. The analyst will also prepare ad hoc financial reports and analyses as requested by management and will be expected to build strong collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Compile and consolidate all reporting information including monthly and quarterly reporting and forecasts and budgets.
• Deliver analysis and reporting of the business's actual financial results including variances to budgets, forecast, and ensure key issues, risks and business drivers are understood and explained.
• Assist CFO in the compiling and supporting internal reporting function, including preparation of the monthly and quarterly analytics and executive write ups (Balance Sheet, PL, and cash flow analysis).
• Responsible for providing professional reporting packages and MDA to the quality and insight required by the management team.
• Improve management reporting capabilities and internal analysis to facilitate understanding the drivers of profitability for various channels, services and customers through the development of customer/product profitability and KPIs.
• Take responsibility for annual budgeting for all business segments and helping the CFO set and achieve long-term financial goals that align with the strategy of the business.
• Support the management of working capital, including monitoring cash balances, improving and implementing policies to reduce working capital.
• Cash flow and liquidity forecasting, and reporting.
• Support annual renewals for the global insurance and risk management programs.
• Drive continual process improvement particularly within our reporting tools, leveraging best practices, standardization, and automation to scale the business.
• Prepare Ad hoc financial reporting requests, including capital allocation requests, other analysis and special projects requested by management.
• Build a strong collaborative relationship with key stakeholders within the organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of finance experience with FP&A.
• Prior experience for a multinational business of at least $50 million is strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to detect trends from financial statements and provide analysis to company managers to improve their decision-making ability.
• Multi-currency consolidation experience is strongly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree is required, with a preference for a BS/BA in finance, economics, business or a related field.
• An MBA and/or CMA would be considered a plus.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working within EPICOR ERP system a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience within manufacturing is preferred but not required.
• Previous private company experience would be favorably viewed.