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:

As a Senior Financial Analyst in a dual-purpose role you will be a key partner to the Semiconductor and Industrials business unit FP&A Directors - assisting with profitability analysis, decision support, and ad-hoc analytics. Your work will help the business better understand the trends impacting our wide variety of downstream markets and respond to emerging industry and product trends within our product offerings. Second, you will provide support to Functional SG&A leaders (e.g., HR, IT, Engineering), helping them track their YTD spend vs. budget, understand drivers, and act on those insights. In both functions, you will be a partner to C-suite team members in helping to plan, justify, and track their budget in future cycles.

We are looking for someone who can be based out of our global headquarters in St. Louis, MO.

Key Responsabilities:

1) Commercial support - Semiconductor & Industrials BUs (primary)

* Own product, customer, channel profitability analysis (price/volume/mix, margin bridge, gross margin, tariff, freight/FX impacts)

* Deliver monthly Business unit performance packets 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

2) Functional SG&A support

* Establish a reporting cadence with Functional SG&A Leaders. Highlighting variances and action items in YTD vs. budget spending

* Partner with budget owners on 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

3) FP&A process & tools

* 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

Required Skills and Experience

* Minimum 3+ years of relevant finance or accounting experience involving budgeting, forecasting and insights

* Advanced proficiency in MS Excel, including experience building financial models involving complex formulas and large data sets

* 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

* Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field

* Manufacturing FP&A experience is a plus

* Proficiency in building Power BI/Tableau/Power Query/Power Pivot reports

* Experience with an ERP (SAP/Oracle/NetSuite) software

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-term and long-term disability insurance
• Paid holidays, personal time, and vacation
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement

Diversity & Inclusion

We proactively embrace diversity in all its dimensions across our company and cultivate a culture of inclusion and forward thinking that respects and reflects each team member's individual strengths, views, and experiences. Watlow takes pride in being an inclusive equal opportunity employer and considers for employment qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Please let us know confidentially if you need or require any special accommodations to participate in our recruiting process by emailing us at accommodations@Watlow.com.