Sr. FP&A Financial Analyst Position Available In Elmore, Alabama

Sr. FP&A Financial Analyst

Date:

Apr 30, 2025

Location:

Tallassee, AL, US

Company:

GKN Aerospace Careers
Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’remitted to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. T are no limits to w you can take your career.
Job Summary
This position supports the Alabama manufacturing site within the Defense Business Line and GKN Aerospace. This is an individual contributor position and will report directly to the site’s Finance Director, and will be responsible for developing and providing actionable Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) rmendations to key stakeholders and senior leaders to ensure sound financial and operation decisions occur. This position will be involved in a variety of financial, operational and strategic analysis, reviews and related decisions that have significant impact on the business. Overall, this individual will have overall responsibility for all FP&A-related activities, including financial modeling and analysis and site coordination to support month-end analysis, forecasting cycles throughout the year, establishing the Budget (Annual Operating Plan) and Strat Plan (Long Range Plan over the 5-YR outlook). This position is also essential in supporting functional areas with financial analysis, ad-hoc andplex what-if/scenario-based planning, program finances and risk assessment to delivering on theirmitments (e.g. indirect rate volatility, material/inflationary impacts and trend analysis), overhead/conversion cost and Forward-Pricing Rates, primarily alignment of financial performance will revolve around Backlog, Arrears, Sales, Operating Ie, Cash, Inventory and manufacturing productivity metrics.
Job Responsibilities
Effective oral and writtenmunication skills will be required to effectively manage across multiple leadership levels as well as various functional and customer levels
Analyze financial data from CiERP and utilize financial models, OneStream and TM1 consolidation tools to perform financial analysis and distill into actionable reports
Develop and utilize forward-looking data analytics, visualization, and trend analysis to inform financial strategy and decision making
Perform analysis on customer margins in detail by contract, model and part number. Understand and explain costponents to managers to take effective action to improve margins while maintaining quality and delivery performance
Identify and develop efficient and effective methods and practices to analyze financial results and operating data required by Purchasing, Programs and Manufacturing Operations management. Analyze this data and deliver meaningful information to management with corrective action plans. Implement and ensure performance to realize these desired financial results.
Analyze direct and indirect labor levels and trends
Ensure managers are kept fully informed of their spending and financial results, while maintaining a firm and creditable relationships with all levels of management
Perform indirect cost and program costs analysis to ensure the required operating and financial performance objectives at achieved.
Job Qualifications
BS/BA in Accounting, Finance
2+ years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis
Experience with enterprise-level cost management tools (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Cobra Ci, Hyperion/Smartview, OneStream, TM1) Proficient working experience with Excel, Power Point and ing skills
Must be a US Persons (US Citizen, Green Card Holder / US permanent resident, refugee or asylee) to meet export controlpliance requirements

Additional Qualifications:

Preferred experience in Aerospace and Defense industry with experience in a manufacturing environment Able to extract,pile and summarize financial data in such a manner thatplex matters can be distilled into simple problem statements & rmendations
Comfortable developing concise and clear executive-style presentations to support various reviews, forecasting cycles and monthly & quarterly performance briefings Demonstrate clear understanding and application of cost and indirect Forward-Pricing Rates (Overhead, Material Handling and SG&A) management techniques, including performance against budget and rate monitoring cadence
Ability to work independently and meet hard deadlines
Experience leading projects that aim to innovate tools, processes, and product
Experience with Tableau or similar reporting/visualization tools
We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of ananisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and ismitted to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is wee to to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through aing together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through ourmitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture w everyone feels wee to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.
We’re alsomitted to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.
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