Senior Financial Analyst for Manufacturing & Operations

Love solving business challenges with data? Drive the financial decisions that power manufacturing excellence. Join us as a strategic partner to operations, leveraging data, analytics, and business insight to uncover opportunities, optimize performance, and help shape the future of our business.

This role offers a hybrid arrangement, with an agreed-upon portion of work time spent at our office in Archbold, Ohio.

Reports directly to EVP, Operations. 

SUMMARY

The Senior Financial Analyst role assists in the preparation, budgeting, and forecasting of assigned functions. This role is responsible for performing both financial and operational analysis of budget and actual variances to identify the root cause of variances and identifying actions for the business to take to improve financial performance. As a steward of the company’s financial resources, this role assists in performing ad hoc analyses of business projects and investments to determine its financial returns and impacts across all operational segments. 

In addition, this role partners closely with stakeholders across the organization to understand business challenges, identify opportunities, and develop reporting, analytics, and automation solutions that improve performance, efficiency, and strategic outcomes. This individual enjoys solving problems, is comfortable learning new technologies, and understands that the goal is not to build dashboards; it is to help the business make better decisions.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Other duties may be assigned.

• Partner with business leaders to identify reporting, analytics, and operational improvement opportunities, developing meaningful financial and key performance indicators that support strategic decision-making.
• Lead financial planning activities, including budgeting, forecasting, capacity planning, and performance analysis, providing insights into business results, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Analyze business performance, investments, capital projects, and operational initiatives to assess financial impact, measure outcomes, and recommend actions that improve profitability and efficiency.
• Design, develop, and maintain dashboards, reports, and data visualizations using Power BI and enterprise systems, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and reporting accuracy.
• Collaborate with business and IT teams to translate business requirements into scalable analytics and reporting solutions while documenting methodologies, business rules, logic, mappings, and reporting processes.
• Prepare and present financial and operational insights to leadership, including budget variances, performance drivers, strategic recommendations, and data-driven business cases that support organizational priorities.
• Serve as a trusted business partner and analytics expert, helping stakeholders leverage data to make informed decisions and continuously improve business performance.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential Knowledge & Skills

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Highly proficient in financial analysis and model building. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business questions into financial models and data into meaningful business insights.
• Natural curiosity and a desire to understand business processes, challenges, and opportunities.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical and financial concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Proficiency in business intelligence and data visualization tools, with advanced Power BI experience.
• Proficiency in Office suite. Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including data analysis and modeling capabilities.
• Understanding of data structures, databases, and reporting best practices.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field required. MBA preferred.
• Five years of relevant experience in a large consumer products, manufacturing, and distribution environment.
• Experience developing and leading annual budgeting processes with multiple stakeholders.
• Proven track record of implementing or improving financial reporting.
• Proven experience developing scalable reporting and analytics solutions that support business decision-making.
• Experience working with ERP systems; SAP experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with data modeling, automation, and business process improvement initiatives.

PAY SUMMARY

The expected offer range is: $63,000 - $84,000. The actual salary will be based on factors such as location, relevant experience, and skills. The Max salary listed is not the top of the salary band.

Sauder Woodworking Co. will not sponsor applicants for this position for immigration benefits, including but not limited to assisting with obtaining work permission for F-1 students, H-1B professionals, O-1 workers, TN workers, E-3 workers, among other immigration statuses. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.