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 :

We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to add to our corporate FP&A team. You will be a key partner to the commercial, technical, operations and corporate functions- assisting with business analysis and strategic decisions through structured and ad-hoc analytics. Your work will help the business better understand the trends impacting our wide variety of markets and respond to emerging industry and product trends within our product offerings. You will also support functional leaders in understanding their organizations' financial impact and delivering insights to improve efficiency and returns on capital.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own product, customer, channel profitability analysis (price / volume / mix, margin bridge, gross margin, tariff, freight / FX impacts)
• Deliver monthly Business unit performance data and insights 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
• Establish a reporting cadence with Functional SG&A Leaders . Highlighting variances and action items in YTD vs. budget spending
• Partner with budget owners on current performance, 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
• 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

How your success will be measured (first 6-12 months)

Career Opportunities

Required Skills and Experience

Qualifications

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 :

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.