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Position Title: Senior Financial AnalystDepartment: FinanceReports to: Chief Financial OfficerFLSA Status: ExemptWork Arrangement: On-site, Newport, MinnesotaCompensation: $90,000 - $120,000Position Summary:The Senior Financial Analyst is a strategic finance partner responsible for translating product costing, pricing, production, inventory, and enterprise data into actionable insights that strengthen margins, cash flow, operating efficiency, and investment decisions. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the role partners with operations and production leaders to improve costing accuracy, identify performance and production variances, evaluate capacity and resource utilization, and support decisions on product mix, process improvement, inventory, and capital investment. The role also advances scalable reporting and automation and serves as a key Finance workstream leader during ERP implementation, with a defined opportunity to progress into a Finance Manager role.Purpose:Supports business strategy by delivering accurate product costing, pricing analysis, and financial insights that improve margins, cash flow, operating efficiency, and investment decisions.Key Activity Overview:Product Costing: Lead and coordinate accurate costing across product lines and sites.Prepare unit-cost analyses and recommendations, communicate findings to management, and support sound pricing, margin, and operating decisions.Understanding of accrual accounting, activity based costing and standard costing approaches.Operations & Production: Analyze production, capacity, resource utilization, inventory, and shipping performance to improve efficiency and margins.Trend analysis of positive and negative activities' effects on business operations.Works closely with key managers to understand production, sales, inventory and shipping activities to make accurate and timely analysis.Planning & Investment: Model strategic scenarios and assess ROI for process improvements, asset decisions, and capital investments.Support Budget cycle and demand forecasting processes for future production requirements.Articulate results of financial analysis, influence business thinking, and help ensure business results are attained.Reporting & Analytics: Integrate enterprise data, develop management reporting, identify trends, and automate recurring analytics.Perform costing and input analysis, develop insights and analytics into production performance and forecasting outlook.Help define and provide new insights into financial processes in order to streamline activities and drive new/current analytics that support future growth of the company.ERP & Process Improvement: Lead the Finance ERP workstream and strengthen scalable financial and operational processes.Partner with IT/IS to integrate and organize data from multiple sources, develop management reporting, and automate data extraction, report processing, and distribution where practical.Strong understanding of ERP implementations or configuration and artificial intelligence.Business Partnership: Translate analysis into actionable recommendations, influence decisions, and train stakeholders to use financial data effectively. Collaborate with other financial analysts and department teams.Support in evaluating pricing performance and recommend actions affecting pricing, product mix, margins, and cash flow.Perform additional financial analysis as business needs arise, including inventory reporting, valuation, and return-on-investment evaluations for asset-management decisions.Required Experience and Background:Five to Seven (5-7) years' experience in financial analysis, production variances and product costing; nursery experience preferred.Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field required; master's degree preferred. Must have standard costing (activity-based costing) methodology experience and worked in manufacturing environment. Preferred experience in ERP implementation.Skills and Competencies:Advanced