Analyst–Finance & Profit Analytics

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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