Finance Wood Dale, Illinois
Salary: USD 91748.00 - 114685 Annually
Description
Senior Financial Analyst
About Optimas:
Optimas is a global distributor of integrated supply chain solutions, and engineering support focused on delivering fasteners, components, industrial and safety supplies to our diverse customers around the world. Our local, on-the-ground teams understand the nuances of every community we serve. This allows us to adapt with our customers and partners as needs evolve, leveraging our footprint to remain at your side while providing a highly personalized level of service and support no matter where you find yourself around the globe.
Position overview:
We’re seeking for a self-starter, driven Senior Financial Analyst to join our dynamic Finance Team.
The Senior Financial Analyst will play a critical role in providing financial insights, analysis, and guidance to support key business initiatives and drive financial performance. The ideal candidate will have a strong analytical mindset, exceptional financial modeling skills, and the ability to communicate complex financial concepts to stakeholders at all levels.
If you are looking for a fast-paced environment with numerous opportunities for personal and career growth, then this is the ideal place for you.
Main responsibilities:
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead forecasting, budgeting and long -range planning processes, ensuring accuracy, transparency and alignment with business objectives.
- Prepare and deliver clear, insightful financial reporting packages for leadership highlighting key trends, risks and opportunities.
- Develop and enhance robust financial models and analytical frameworks to support strategic initiatives, pricing decisions and scenario analysis, while continuously improving forecasting methodologies, financial evaluation techniques and related processes and systems to drive greater accuracy, efficiency and insight.
- Analyze financial results through variance, trend and root-cause analysis to identify key performance drivers.
- Monitor, interpret KPIs, providing actionable insights to improve revenue growth, cost efficiency and margin performance.
- Collaborate and serve as a trusted advisor to P&L leaders and cross functional stakeholders, providing proactive financial guidance, validate assumptions and drive operational improvements.
- Identify, develop, and implement process improvement initiatives across FP&A processes, reporting, and financial systems.
- Build and enhance dashboards, reporting tools and automation solutions to improve data accessibility and efficiency.
- Analyze key cost drivers including material, labor, freight, overhead, and inventory to deliver actionable profitability insights, support margin improvement initiatives and inform data driven operational decision-making.
- Proactive mindset with a bias towards action is critical.
Key Competencies:
The ideal candidate should have the following competencies:
- Analytical excellence – Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to synthesize complex data into clear insights.
- Business Acumen – Deep understanding of financial drivers and how they impact operational and strategic outcomes
- Influence & Communication – Ability to effectively present and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Adaptability – Thrives in ambiguity and embraces change in a dynamic environment.
- Collaboration – Strong team player who builds relationships across functions.
- Entrepreneurial spirit - Proactively identifies opportunities, takes ownership, challenges the status quo, and drives continuous improvement with a strong bias for action and business impact
Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business Administration
- 3 + years of Accounting or Financial Planning and Analysis experience
- Experience with ERP and planning /reporting tools (e.g. NetSuite, Oracle, PBCS/Hyperion, SAP, Tableau Power BI a plus)
- Strong financial modeling, forecasting and data analysis capabilities.
- Experience using Microsoft suite (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Advanced Excel skills (e.g. pivot tables, complex formulas, modeling); VBA/macros a plus
- Experience in Manufacturing or Distribution environment or a product driven business environment strongly preferred
- Ability to extract and manipulate large datasets using SQL or other query tools a plus
- Strong interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication skills. Ability to work in fast paced collaborative environment navigating ambiguity and complexity
To Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Optimas does not accept unsolicited CVs or applications from agencies. Optimas is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs or applications and explicitly reserve its right to contact candidates presented in such unsolicited CV or application.
Optimas OE Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Optimas OE Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.