Woodward, Inc.

Senior Financial Analyst

Woodward, Inc.

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Illinois

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Salary

💰 $80,800 - $121,200 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

ERP

About the role

  • Support a business unit within the Aerospace Segment by performing financial analysis and business support.
  • Analyze historical, prospective, and hypothetical financial information to provide actionable insights and support business decisions.
  • Prepare annual budgets, long-range plans, rolling forecasts, and quarterly forecasts.
  • Monitor performance against budgets, investigate variances, and recommend corrective actions.
  • Collaborate with department heads to gather and consolidate budget inputs.
  • Support monthly close process and develop executive-level business review packages.
  • Partner and communicate with stakeholders to interpret financial analysis results.
  • Prepare formal financial presentation materials for finance and business leaders.
  • Leverage advanced proficiency in software tools, including Excel, to gather, organize, and analyze data.
  • Work independently with minimal supervision and proactively identify and resolve issues.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree Finance, or Economics required.
  • 2 – 5 years of experience conducting a wide range of complex financial analysis activities revenues and costs forecasting required.
  • Familiarity with key computer applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ERP systems, and General Ledger.
  • Proven ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, using sound logic to resolve issues independently or in collaboration with other tax leaders.
  • A team-oriented mindset, capable of sharing responsibilities and fostering collaboration for the benefit of the organization.
  • Ability to pay attention to details
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.
  • Financial expertise is sought by others within the organization
  • Strong knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and various financial analysis tools, such as ROI, discounted cash flows, and variance analysis
  • Strong team contributor and demonstrated ability to get along well with others
  • Experience working in a manufacturing environment preferred
  • Experience working in the Aerospace Industry preferred
  • Strong experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
  • Strong advanced Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, VLOOKUP, INDEX, HLOOKUP, financial modeling) to analyze data and support reporting and decision-making
  • Experience with enterprise performance management (EPM) platforms, such as Alteryx, BPC, SAP S/4HANA ​or Tagetik, for financial consolidation, reporting, and analysis preferred
  • Able to quickly understand and explain complex data/issues and distill complex and voluminous data into understandable information
  • Comfortable working under tight deadlines
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Ability to gain trust at the highest levels of the organization.
  • This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be U.S. Persons within the meaning of the ITAR and EAR, or eligible to obtain all required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce.