Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. KD Nutra®, a KD Pharma Group Company, is seeking a Financial Planning Analyst to support financial performance across a multi-site manufacturing organization. The role focuses on budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, standardized reporting, manufacturing performance analysis, business partnering, and month-end close support.
Responsibilities
- Support the annual budget, quarterly forecast, and monthly outlook processes
- Perform detailed variance analysis of manufacturing costs and operating expenses
- Develop and maintain financial models to support planning and decision-making
- Identify financial risks and opportunities and provide actionable recommendations
- Standardize financial reporting, KPI definitions, and management dashboards across sites
- Develop reporting packages that enable consistent performance comparisons
- Partner with site operations and shared services teams to improve data accuracy, consistency, and transparency
- Establish governance for reporting methodologies and metric definitions
- Partner with plant leadership to monitor manufacturing performance and key cost drivers
- Analyze manufacturing costs, inventory, labor, productivity, scrap, yield, and capacity utilization
- Investigate manufacturing cost variances, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions
- Identify operational trends affecting profitability and support margin-improvement and cost-reduction initiatives
- Collaborate with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Commercial teams to support business initiatives
- Evaluate process-improvement projects and cost-reduction opportunities through financial analysis
- Help department managers understand performance and achieve budget targets
- Present findings and recommendations to management clearly and concisely
- Assist with month-end close activities, including accruals, journal entries, and account analysis
- Review spending and headcount variances
- Prepare monthly financial commentary explaining key business drivers and variances
- Support internal and external audit requests as needed
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- Two to five years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, accounting, or corporate finance
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and financial modeling skills
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and data analysis
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or a similar reporting tool
- Experience with SQL, Power Query, or relational databases
- Working knowledge of ERP systems and financial reporting tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across functions and organizational levels
- Experience supporting manufacturing plants or supply chain operations
- Knowledge of standard costing and cost accounting principles
- Experience with Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP, Oracle, or a similar ERP platform
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