Financial Analyst

The Sr. Finance Analyst is located in office 4 days per week in St. Louis, MO and serves as a strategic finance leader responsible for driving financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and decision support across the Automation business. This role plays a critical part in enabling profitable growth by improving forecast accuracy, optimizing margins, and providing clear financial insights to operational and executive leadership. The Sr. Finance Analyst assists in the annual budget and ongoing forecast processes, partners closely with cross‑functional leaders to evaluate business performance, and delivers actionable analysis that supports pricing, cost management, capital investment, and strategic initiatives. Responsibilities Lead annual budgeting process, monthly forecasting and strategic financial planning. Develop and maintain financial models to support data driven decision making. Coordinate inputs across departments and ensure alignment with business objectives. Performance Management & Analysis Analyze monthly results, identify key variances and communicate drivers to leadership. Develop dashboards and management reporting packages. Business partnerships Serve as financial function partner to various business and functional leaders. Challenge assumptions and provide independent financial perspective. Management Reporting Prepare presentations for functional and executive leaders. Translate complex financial data into digestible and actionable content. Ensure consistency and accuracy across reports. Process improvement and systems – improve FP&A tools and reporting, using ERP and BI tools. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 10+ years of finance, costing or accounting experience. 3+ years experience in a manager capacity, interacting at VP and Business President level. Experience in leading a forecast process, forecast consolidation and implementing tools to support. International company and global multi-site experience. Target and budget setting experience in leadership capacity. Experience using ERP in manufacturing environment. Strong accounting experience in a manufacturing company. Experience in business transformation Hands‑on experience with Oracle and SAP Business Financial Consolidator (BFC) in a manufacturing or multi-site environment. Experience in large company (+$5 billion sales) Experience in M&A, business integrations #J-18808-Ljbffr