We are looking for a Financial Analyst to join our team in Lewis Center, Ohio. This role focuses on turning financial and sales data into meaningful insights that support planning, performance evaluation, and business decision-making. The ideal candidate will contribute to reporting, forecasting, and profitability analysis while helping strengthen financial processes through improved tools and automation.
Responsibilities:
• Develop and share recurring profit and loss reports each month, highlighting key performance drivers and explaining differences against budget, forecast, and prior-year results.
• Review customer sales activity to calculate monthly accruals and prepare supporting journal entry inputs for selected accounts, including royalty and seller-related expenses.
• Contribute to the yearly budgeting cycle, quarterly outlook updates, and longer-term financial planning activities.
• Work closely with Sales teams to evaluate margin performance for existing business and assess profitability considerations for prospective customers.
• Examine operating cost categories such as labor and freight to uncover patterns, explain changes, and identify areas for efficiency gains.
• Prepare on-demand financial reviews, support business case development, and assist with cross-functional projects that require analytical insight.
• Help enhance reporting workflows and planning processes by supporting automation efforts and building capability with Power BI and related reporting tools.• Experience in financial analysis with the ability to interpret results and translate data into practical business recommendations.
• Strong financial modeling skills and comfort working with budgets, forecasts, and performance reporting.
• Proficiency in variance analysis, including identifying drivers behind changes in revenue, cost, and margin results.
• Ability to perform ad hoc analysis efficiently in response to changing business needs and leadership requests.
• Experience working with large datasets and applying data mining techniques to uncover trends and actionable insights.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to partner effectively across finance, sales, and other business functions.
• High attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a deadline-driven environment.