Senior Financial Analyst - Product and Innovation

Job Description

Job Description

Wahl Empowers People To Be Their Best!

Where Strategy, Innovation, and Finance Converge.

At Wahl Clipper, innovation is more than creating new products. It's about making thoughtful, strategic investments that fuel long-term growth while honoring a legacy built over more than a century. As the Senior Financial Analyst, Product & Innovation, you will serve as a trusted advisor to Product Management and Innovation leadership, helping guide critical decisions that shape our future portfolio. This highly visible role sits at the intersection of finance, innovation, marketing, and operations, providing the financial insight and business partnership needed to transform ideas into successful products and sustainable growth. This is an opportunity for a strategic thinker who thrives on solving complex business challenges, influencing decisions, and helping leaders balance innovation, profitability, and long-term value creation.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Financial Analyst, your day to day will include:

• Own and enhance product-level financial analysis across the global portfolio, including gross margin, contribution margin, and lifecycle profitability.
• Lead financial reviews of core products, line extensions, renovations, and end-of-life decisions.
• Identify margin expansion, mix optimization, and cost-to-serve opportunities while preserving brand integrity.
• Serve as the finance lead for NPD initiatives, partnering closely with Product Management, R&D, Operations, and Marketing.
• Build and challenge business cases, investment models, and financial assumptions for new product launches and innovation pipelines.
• Evaluate capitalized and expanded innovation investments, including tooling, mold, sourcing, and launch spend.
• Track post-launch performance versus approval cases and recommend course corrections where needed.
• Supporting pricing strategy and governance for new and existing products across regions and channels.
• Analyze pricing actions, promotional strategy, and elasticity to inform decision making.
• Partner with Sales and Trade marketing to assess customer and channel profitability, especially for NPD indications.
• Lead product-level inputs into the annual operating plan, long-range plan, and rolling forecasts.
• Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses related to innovation capacity, launch timing, cost volatility, and volume uptake.
• Support strategic roadmap discussions by quantifying trade-offs between growth, margin, and investment risk.
• Act as a finance thought partner to product management and Innovation leadership.
• Communication complex financial insights clearly and pragmatically to non-finance stakeholders.
• Support executive and board-level discussions related to product strategy, innovation investment, and portfolio performance.
• Continuously improve product costing, performance tracking, and NPD financial governance processes.
• Leverage Erp systems, BI tools, and advanced Excel models to improve transparency and decision quality.
• Establish consistent financial standards for innovation investments across regions and product categories.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline- MBA or CPA/CMA plus
• 5-8+ years of experience in consumer goods, durable goods, or innovation-driven environments is strongly preferred
• Demonstrated success supporting NPD, pricing, and portfolio management decisions
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; ERP and BI experience required
• Ability to balance long-term value creation with near-term financial discipline
• Sound judgement and comfort operating in a family-owned business environment
• Strong influencing skills without reliance on formal authority
• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to challenge assumptions respectfully
• High integrity, discretion, and ownership mindset.

Why You'll Love Wahl Clipper

We offer a competitive benefits package designed to support your well-being and growth, including:

• Low-cost BCBSIL medical, dental, and vision plans
• A generous company-matched 401(k) and profit sharing
• Tuition support to fuel your learning
• Paid holidays and a vibrant, casual work environment

But that's just the beginning. At Wahl, you'll also enjoy:

• A legacy of quality and innovation.
• A team that values your expertise and ideas.
• Opportunities to grow and contribute to meaningful projects.
• A culture built on respect, precision, and progress.

Ready to Help Shape What's Next?

If you're passionate about combining financial expertise with strategic thinking and product innovation, we'd love to hear from you. Join Wahl Clipper and play a key role in evaluating opportunities, guiding investments, and helping bring the next generation of products to market.

 

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