About the role

As an Analyst – Finance & Profit Analytics , you will support the Profit Analytics (PA) function by delivering accurate, decision‑ready profitability insights across products, customers, plants, and business units within a manufacturing environment.
You will combine strong financial acumen with analytics and business partnering to help leaders understand margin drivers, cost dynamics, and performance outcomes, enabling better decision‑making across the enterprise.

Our Team

You will be part of the Profit Analytics (PA) team, a global finance analytics group that partners closely with Product Leaders, Business Finance, FP&A, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams.
The team focuses on creating margin transparency, strengthening accountability, and enabling scalable, data‑driven insights that support enterprise value creation.

What You Will Do

Partner with Product Leaders, Business Finance, FP&A, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams to deliver end‑to‑end profitability and margin insights across products, customers, plants, and regions.
Analyze and explain COGS and margin movements , including material, labor, overhead, PPV/POV, inventory impacts, and profit in inventory.
Collaborate with business finance, plant costing, and operations teams to interpret costing drivers , BOM routing logic, and material consumption, leveraging subject‑matter experts as needed.
Analyze data from SAP (CO, MM, PP) and non‑SAP sources to support PA dashboards, analytics tools, and leadership reviews.
Develop and maintain analytical data models to enable scalable profitability reporting, scenario analysis, and decision support.
Act as a finance business partner by translating complex analytics into clear insights, trade‑offs, and recommendations for stakeholders.
Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and governance across PA calculations, assumptions, and outputs.
Work cross‑functionally to resolve data gaps, improve methodologies, and continuously enhance the value delivered by PA insights.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

CA / CMA / MBA / M.Com with 4–8 years of experience in Profit Analytics, Manufacturing Finance, FP&A, Costing, or Operations Finance.
Strong understanding of the manufacturing income statement , cost build‑up, and COGS mechanics .
Working knowledge of SAP (CO, MM, PP preferred) and ability to navigate financial and operational data.
Strong analytical skills with experience working on large, complex datasets .
Advanced proficiency in Excel ; experience presenting insights in a clear, structured manner.

What Will Put You Ahead

Experience in profitability or margin analytics within a manufacturing environment.
Exposure to data modeling and analytics enablement for finance use cases.
Working knowledge of SQL and/or Python for data extraction and analysis.
Experience with Power BI or other visualization tools.
Ability to simplify complex costing concepts and influence decisions through strong communication and storytelling