Blue Origin - Huntsville, AL
posted 2 months ago
Full-time - Mid Level
Huntsville, AL
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
About the position
The Finance Analyst III - Operations at Blue Origin is a critical role focused on enhancing financial insights and operational performance within the organization. This position involves driving key initiatives to improve the quality and timeliness of financial reporting, assisting business leadership in understanding financial and product cost performance, and developing tools for proactive financial management. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex financial concepts effectively, contributing to the company's mission of advancing space exploration.
Responsibilities
- Assist with creation of models for financial reviews, cost benefit analysis, and metrics
- Be the conduit between Operations Finance and Program Finance
- Conduct monthly product cost analysis, develop KPIs and provide insights on Operations touch and support labor performance drivers against targets
- Gain in-depth knowledge of product cost models, assumptions, and the translation to a financial forecast
- Data mining across diverse data sets; Databricks; Redshift; SQL
- Drive quarterly resource forecasts (Labor, Capital) for assigned programs
- Compile estimate at completion (EACs) for major capital projects
- Identify operational and financial risk & opportunities with potential solutions; assist with recovery plan development
- Analyze and report financial performance variances of actuals to budget and forecast
- Support key business analytics and key performance indicator generation
- Support and assist with internal initiatives for new products for internal customers
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or other highly analytical field
- 5+ years of financial and business analytics experience
- Ability to develop pricing models based on multiple inputs including market conditions, competition, and other constraints
- Strong analytical skill set and high attention to detail
- Excellent written communication and presentation skills
- Advanced level skills in Microsoft Excel Power Query, Power Pivot
- Experience in helping business leaders meet financial targets and deliver results
- Understanding of underlying business processes and the impact of financial decisions
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with SQL querying and data mining
- Experience with Deltek Costpoint
- Experience with Tableau
- Experience working in a Research & Development or Manufacturing environment
Benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Paid holidays
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Life insurance
