Financial Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

Title: Financial Planning & Admin Analyst

Location: Rapid City, SD • Denver, CO • El Paso, TX

Industry: Construction Materials / Heavy Industrial (Aggregates, Cement, ReadyMix, Asphalt)

Salary: $85k-$100k w/ 10% Bonus + Relocation Package

What You Will Do:

The FP&A Analyst supports financial planning, performance analysis, and decision support across the company’s multiproduct construction materials business. This role is highly operational, partnering closely with general managers, commercial teams, and accounting to analyze volume, pricing, cost drivers, and logistics. You’ll play a key role in improving margin visibility, strengthening financial discipline, and connecting operational activities to financial outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development of annual budgets, rolling forecasts, longrange plans, and capital budgets across multiple product lines and regions
• Partner with operations and commercial teams to align financial plans with market demand, production capacity, and business objectives
• Administer and optimize CAPEX approval processes, ensuring compliance with budgets, policies, and capital planning goals
• Analyze key cost drivers including raw materials, energy, transportation, labor, equipment utilization, maintenance, and downtime
• Perform variance analysis and provide actionable insights on business performance, risks, and opportunities
• Monitor and report operational and financial KPIs such as production volumes, throughput, plant efficiency, utilization, and margin trends
• Develop dashboards, reports, and executive presentations to provide visibility into performance across regions, plants, product lines, and key customers
• Serve as a strategic finance partner to operations, sales, accounting, and business leaders by translating operational data into financial insights and recommendations
• Drive continuous improvement through process standardization, workflow optimization, and enhanced financial reporting capabilities
• Other duties as assigned

Experience Needed:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or related field
• 5+ years of FP&A, corporate finance, or operations finance experience, ideally within construction materials or heavy industrial manufacturing
• Advanced Excel skills, including financial modeling and analysis of large data sets
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms
• Familiarity with production/operational systems such as BCMI, FastWeigh, or comparable tools
• Proficiency with BI/reporting platforms including Power BI, Prophix, or similar
• Strong analytical and criticalthinking skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Ability to connect operational drivers to financial performance and identify opportunities to improve results
• Strong communication and businesspartnering skills across finance, operations, sales, and accounting
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy in fastpaced, highvolume environments
• Willingness to travel domestically 10–15%

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in aggregates, cement, readymix, asphalt, or other construction materials operations
• Background in manufacturing, industrial production, or heavy industrial environments

We offer competitive benefits, including paid time off, medical/dental/vision coverage, disability plans, and a 401(k).