Senior Financial Analyst

Working at Watlow
Watlow is a global technology and manufacturing leader who provides world class engineering expertise through innovative thermal products and systems, enabling our customers to thrive. We are making a positive impact every day as our solutions enrich the lives of people everywhere. We have been providing breakthrough thermal solutions for nearly a century. Our corporate values guide us uncompromisingly to always do the right thing, continually learn and improve, respect everyone, and lead with service and humility.


About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to add to our corporate FP&A team. You will be a key partner to the commercial, technical, operations and corporate functions– assisting with business analysis and strategic decisions through structured and ad-hoc analytics. Your work will help the business better understand the trends impacting our wide variety of markets and respond to emerging industry and product trends within our product offerings. You will also support functional leaders in understanding their organizations’ financial impact and delivering insights to improve efficiency and returns on capital.

Roles and Responsibilities
• Own product, customer, channel profitability analysis (price/volume/mix, margin bridge, gross margin, tariff, freight/FX impacts)
• Deliver monthly Business unit performance data and insights covering sales, bookings, backlog conversion, and margin drivers
• Drive ad-hoc analytics (e.g., churn/win–loss, cost-to-serve, portfolio rationalization) to improve gross margin and growth
• Consolidating information from disparate data sources to explain Enterprise performance, variance to budget, and key drivers
• Establish a reporting cadence with Functional SG&A Leaders. Highlighting variances and action items in YTD vs. budget spending
• Partner with budget owners on current performance, forecast updates, accruals, headcount & vacancy plans, and project spend
• Prepare monthly close schedules (prepaids, accruals, reclasses) and ensure timely, accurate entries
• Track savings initiatives and investment cases; measure benefit realization vs. plan
• Improve forecasting cadence and forecast accuracy through driver-based models and standard templates
• Automate recurring reports (Power Query/Power BI/Tableau) and streamline data flows from ERP to reporting
• Uphold strong controls & data integrity, document assumptions, and methodologies

How your success will be measured (first 6–12 months)
• Development of reporting with clear return-on-investment focus, root cause analytics, and team buy-in
• Cycle-time reduction for close and reporting (e.g., automation integration into recurring reports)

Career Opportunities
• Cross-functional exposure to Sales, Product Management, Operations, HR, IT, and Engineering leadership with flexible career paths

Required Skills and Experience
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel, including experience building financial models involving complex formulas and large data sets. Proficiency in PowerBI, Power Automate, low-code tools and new FP&A AI tools preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to interact effectively with business partners at varying levels of management, cross functional and cross-national teams
• Ability to consistently discern strategic insights from data analysis
• Strong business partnering, curiosity, and comfort with ambiguity and ad-hoc work
• Strong sense of autonomy, critical thinking, and problem-solving mindset
• Regularly anticipate future challenges and business needs, and anticipate follow-ups and secondary implications

Qualifications
• Minimum 3+ years of relevant finance experience involving reporting, budgeting, forecasting and insights
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Engineering or related field
• FP&A experience at a manufacturing business is a plus but not required
• Proficiency in building Power BI/Tableau/Power Query/Power Pivot reports; experience with Power Automate and various FP&A AI tools is a plus but not required
• Experience with an ERP system; experience across multiple domestic and international entities preferred; Oracle ERP experience preferred


Benefits: The Watlow Total Compensation Plan
The health, well-being and financial stability of you and your family is a high priority to us. The Watlow Total Rewards Plan includes competitive compensation and a full range of life and career enhancing benefits:
• Annual Incentive Program
• 401(k) plan that includes a company match on your contribution and an annual company contribution that is tied to company performance
• Wellness incentives
• Employee Personal Assistance Program
• Dental, medical, vision and short-t