Senior Financial Analyst, Fe Operations Finance

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We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to partner closely with FrontEnd (FE) Operations leaders to drive cost transparency, planning accuracy, and data driven decision making. The role blends Accounting, FP&A, and Finance Business Partnering with deep costing expertise and advanced dashboarding (Power BI/Tableau) superuser capabilities. You will own end to end analyses across standard costing, monthly/quarterly performance reviews, budgeting/forecasting, and deliver scalable insights to cross functional teams.

**Main Responsibilities**
- ** Monthly performance & cost analytics**
- Review and analyze actual process costs vs. plan; highlight key drivers and recommend corrective actions.
- Ensure consistent, high quality data capture to support internal and external benchmarking.
- ** Quarterly outlooks & goal tracking**
- Prepare quarterly projections of process costs vs. prior plans, goals, and benchmarks, articulate risks and opportunities with clear narratives for operations leaders.
- ** Business partnering & decision support**
- Serve as a trusted finance partner to FE Operations leadership and cross-functional partners (Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, HR) to evaluate tradeoffs, model scenarios, and influence decisions with data.
- ** Planning (Budget/LRF/Forecast)**
- Lead/support the annual budget and periodic forecasts (volume, yield, labor/overhead absorption, PPV, spending); consolidate inputs and present variances to plan/prior cycles.
- ** Costing ownership**
- Execute standard costing activities; ensure products/processes are costed correctly and changes are well explained to nonfinance stakeholders.
- ** Dashboards & analytics products**
- Design, build, and maintain enterprise grade Power BI/Tableau dashboards and semantic models that automate recurring reporting for FE Ops Finance, drive adoption and continuous improvement.
- ** Management information & special projects**
- Respond to ad‑hoc management requests; lead special projects that improve cost visibility, throughput, and financial performance.
- ** Data governance & collaboration**
- Uphold data consistency, lineage, and relevance across site and global finance; improve coordination and communication within site/global Finance communities.

**Other Responsibilities**
- Drive reporting standardization and documentation (definitions, metric owners, refresh cadences).
- Contribute to process improvement (e.g., automation, template rationalization, controls).
- Support audit or compliance requests related to costing and FP&A deliverables.

**Minimum Required Qualifications / Experience**
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field.
- At least 4 years of relevant experience in **FP&A, Management Accounting, or Cost Accounting.**:

- ** Advanced Excel proficiency** (modeling, PowerQuery/PowerPivot preferred).
- ** Power BI and/or Tableau**: superuser level, including data modeling (e.g., star schemas), DAX/LOD calculations, role-evel security, performance tuning, and dashboard design & build from scratch.
- ** Costing expertise**: standard cost builds, cost rolls, PPV, labor/overhead analysis, absorption and rate setting, BOM/routing cost understanding.
- ** FP&A**: budgeting/forecasting, driver based models, scenario analysis, variance decomposition (price/volume/mix/yield).
- ** Data skills**: strong data wrangling and quality controls; experience with ETL and working across multiple sources (ERP/MES/production data).
- Proven ability to partner with business leaders and present insights clearly to finance and non‑finance audiences.
- Critical, analytical thinker with a keen eye for detail and a strong bias for data accuracy.
- Clear, concise communication (written and verbal) tailored to technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Ownership & tenacity in a fast paced, high volume manufacturing environment; proactive problem solving.
- Experience integrating BI with enterprise systems (e.g., ERP/MES); familiarity with version control and analytics best practices.
- Experience with benchmarking, KPI frameworks, and storytelling with data.
- Semiconductor or manufacturing finance experience is highly preferred
- Accounting knowledge with solid understanding of management accounting concepts; exposure to IFRS/US GAAP a plus.
- Professional certification: ACCA or CPA (or equivalent) is a plus.

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