Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

Role Overview

As an Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis in College Station, Texas, you will be a critical partner to site leadership—translating operational activity into accurate plans, clear insights, and timely actions that improve cost discipline, forecast accuracy, and performance.

What You Will Do

Plan, forecast, and model site performance, lead assigned portions of the annual budget, re-budget, rolling and monthly forecasts, build and maintain detailed indirect overhead budgets and forecasts by department and cost center, prepare monthly outlooks and executive-ready reporting packages, dashboards, and presentations, monitor results and explain variances with clear, actionable insights, track actuals versus budget, forecast, and prior periods across indirect overhead categories, produce monthly cost-center reports and concise narratives that explain key variances, business drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions, identify emerging cost trends and forecast gaps, investigate root causes with budget owners and operational leaders and escalate material issues to the Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis, strengthen month-end integrity and data accuracy, support Day 3 flash and other periodic reporting by gathering, validating, and analyzing operational and financial information, reconcile data across the general ledger, enterprise resource planning system, planning tools, and reporting outputs, resolve inconsistencies, partner with Accounting on month-end activities affecting indirect overhead, review accrual estimates and open commitments with business owners, own indirect overhead cost management, maintain a clear view of the site’s indirect overhead structure, cost centers, spending categories, and financial drivers, validate assumptions tied to operating requirements, production activity, staffing, facilities, and approved initiatives, track commitments and full-year outlook, review purchase orders, invoices, recurring expenses, contracts, and other inputs to surface timing issues, duplicate charges, unplanned spend, and forecast changes, create cost-center scorecards and trend analyses, analyze metrics where supported by reliable data, support corrective action plans for unfavorable variances, evaluate cost-saving opportunities while balancing operational needs, compliance, service levels, and business continuity, standardize cost-management practices, definitions, reporting calendars, and forecast assumptions across site functions, enable cross-functional decision support and tooling, partner with Operations, Commercial, Program Management, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Information Technology, Accounting, Procurement, Facilities, and Corporate Finance to improve financial transparency, validate timing of expenses, staffing plans, purchase commitments, and service agreements with cost-center owners, support cost allocation, shared-service, and interdepartmental charge analyses, promote effective use of enterprise resource planning, planning, business intelligence, and reporting tools, uphold controls, audits, and compliance, adhere to financial policies, internal controls, and Japan Sarbanes–Oxley and Sarbanes–Oxley requirements, prepare schedules, reconciliations, explanations, and documentation for internal and external audits, lead or support ad hoc financial analyses, cost-control initiatives, process improvements, and special projects as assigned.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Site performance multiplier: Your analysis and forecasting will directly improve cost visibility and predictability at our College Station, Texas facility—accelerating sound decisions, protecting margins, and enabling reliable delivery for our customers, Enterprise impact: The models, controls, and reporting you build locally will inform best practices across the network, strengthening governance and scaling continuous improvement, Better outcomes for patients: By elevating financial discipline around the operations that support manufacturing, you help ensure resources are invested where they matter most—supporting quality, speed, and dependability.

Requirements

• Knowledge of financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, cost accounting concepts, financial modeling, and management reporting.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and managing indirect overhead or operating expenses in a manufacturing, industrial, life sciences, or comparable site environment.
• Ability to understand cost-center structures, expense categories, budget ownership, spending drivers, and financial controls.
• Ability to convert financial and operational data into concise, actionable insights for business partners.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, reconciliation, and variance-analysis skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, lookups, data analysis, and financial modeling.
• Experience with an enterprise resource planning system, such as SAP or a comparable system.
• Experience with enterprise planning or business intelligence tools, such as Anaplan, Adaptive, Hyperion, Microsoft Power BI, or Tableau, is preferred.
• Working knowledge of general ledger activity, accruals, prepayments, purchase orders, commitments, and month-end close processes.
• Working knowledge of revenue recognition, financial controls, and audit support is preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain financial information to non-Finance stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet recurring reporting deadlines, and maintain accuracy in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• High ownership, attention to detail, sound judgment, and a continuous-improvement mindset.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with cost-center owners and cross-functional partners.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• option of a Health Savings Account with company contributions
• industry leading 401(k) savings plan
• insurance coverage
• employee assistance programs
• various wellness incentives
• paid vacation time
• sick time
• company holidays

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