Finance Specialist, Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Number: 11702

External Description:

About this role:

The Finance Specialist, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) drives the planning, forecasting and performance-analysis cycle for a Carrier manufacturing facility. Working with general supervision on assignments that require judgment and interpretation, this role turns operational and financial data into insight that supports decision-making, cost control and profitable growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads the monthly forecast, annual operating plan (AOP) and long-range planning cycles for the site.
• Performs month-end close activities, including accruals, journal entries and account reconciliations.
• Analyzes actual results versus plan/forecast, explaining variances in cost, spend, absorption and productivity.
• Builds and maintains financial models, dashboards and reporting packages for site leadership.
• Partners with Operations, Materials and Engineering to track productivity, savings and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Supports capital investment (CAPEX) requests with business cases, ROI and payback analysis.
• Tracks and reports key financial KPIs (conversion cost, labor efficiency, scrap, inventory, headcount).
• Ensures compliance with US GAAP, internal controls and SOX requirements in all analyses and reporting.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree 
• 3+ years of Financial Planning and Analysis, or accounting experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field.
• Proven experience owning forecasting, budgeting and month-end close activities.
• Strong variance analysis skills with the ability to explain financial results to non-finance partners.
• Advanced Excel and financial-modeling capability.
• Working knowledge of US GAAP, internal controls and SOX compliance.
• Experience with ERP systems and financial reporting tools.
• Manufacturing or plant-finance experience, including standard costing and absorption analysis.
• Proficiency with ERP (SAP/Oracle) and BI tools (Power BI, Hyperion/OneStream).
• CPA, CMA or MBA.

Job Number: 30218473

Community / Marketing Title: Finance Specialist, Financial Planning & Analysis

Location_formattedLocationLong: Texas, US