Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

About Us

Data Analysis Incorporated (DAI) is the controlling entity of the O’Neil family of businesses. DAI and its subsidiaries operate in diverse industries worldwide, including global equity markets, health care, financial services, digital news, and insurance. Our global footprint allows our teams to be responsive to customer needs in a timely and efficient manner. We are dedicated to using technology and innovation to bring change and growth to our businesses. We believe in a dynamic workplace, creating engaging, informative products and services that help our customers succeed. Integrity is an essential characteristic for our firms and our associates 

Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A sits at the intersection of finance and manufacturing operations for O'Neil Digital Solutions (ODS), DAI's manufacturing business. In this role, you will turn revenue, margin, and plant performance into clear insights that help leaders understand results, identify opportunities, and make better decisions.

This is a role for someone who wants to master how a manufacturing business makes money. You will build deep expertise in the customer, product, pricing, volume, mix, labor, material, and plant drivers behind financial performance - moving beyond what changed to explain why, quantify the impact, and help shape the response.

You will own assigned FP&A workstreams end-to-end, including budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, variance analysis, financial modeling, and business partnership. Working directly with business leaders, plant teams, Accounting, Shared Services, and other functions, you will investigate questions, resolve issues, and deliver conclusions that are accurate, well-supported, and useful for decisions.

Success in this role comes from combining technical strength with curiosity, precision, pace, and the initiative to find the answer.

We are hybrid in the Plano office, 3 days a week and as needed

What You'll Do

• Own budgeting and forecasting for assigned ODS P&L areas, building a detailed understanding of the business and operational variables that drive performance.
• Analyze consolidated, departmental, and plant-level results, with particular emphasis on revenue, cost of goods sold, gross margin, and manufacturing profitability.
• Lead detailed root-cause analysis of actual results versus budget, forecast, prior year, and other relevant comparisons. Decompose material variances into measurable business drivers and determine what changed, why it changed, and what action should follow.
• Build and explain price/rate, volume, and mix analyses and bridges. Evaluate the broader manufacturing drivers of margin performance, including labor efficiency, material cost, yield and scrap, overhead absorption, freight, and other operating factors affecting profitability.
• Translate financial results into operational terms that business partners can act on. Separate symptoms from underlying causes, quantify the impact of the primary drivers, and surface risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
• Build deep expertise in ODS gross margin and manufacturing economics, including how customer, product, pricing, volume, mix, labor, material, and plant performance shape financial results.
• Partner directly with business leaders and operating teams to understand performance, validate assumptions, challenge explanations when needed, and provide actionable financial insight.
• Work closely with Accounting and Shared Services throughout the close process to ensure results are complete, accurate, appropriately recognized, and understood. Own financial questions within the assigned workstream through resolution.
• Create clear, accurate reporting and commentary that explains performance, key business drivers, relevant metrics, risks, opportunities, and recommended next actions.
• Build and maintain robust financial models, pro forma analyses, and other decision-support tools for recurring FP&A activities and corporate or business-unit initiatives.
• Support FP&A leadership on ODS financial matters, including process development and improvement, ERP/EPM implementation and enhancement, reporting improvements, and other initiatives within the team's scope.
• Tackle ad hoc financial modeling, analysis, and reporting in support of business decisions, operational questions, and corporate projects.

What Makes You Successful

• You get to the root cause. You dig into the data, understand the operating context, reconcile conflicting information, and determine the business driver behind the variance.
• You understand manufacturing margin.