Senior Financial Analyst – Manufacturing & Materials FP&A

Job Summary:

The Processing Technologies Business Unit is seeking a high-impact Senior Financial Analyst – Manufacturing & Materials FP&A to serve as the critical strategic bridge between operational shop-floor dynamics and enterprise-level financial planning. Partnering directly with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Executive Leadership, this role transforms large transactional datasets into strategic financial models, clear operational narratives, and actionable business decisions.

The ideal candidate is more than a reporting analyst: you are a proactive business driver who leverages deep data capabilities in Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and Oracle ERP to uncover cost drivers, mitigate manufacturing variance, improve working capital, and implement continuous process improvements across our operational footprint.

This role with help develop financial controls and processes to streamline financial reporting of Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet financial statements while working to support product execution with a practical mindset, driving the development, planning, forecasting, and analysis of financial performance of a high-tech, complex manufacturing environment with a high-growth business in the Aerospace and Defense industry.

This role reports to the Sr. Director, Finance and will support teams across multiple sites, including Andover, MA; Hudson, NH; Chantilly, VA & Phoenix, AZ.

Job Responsibilities:

• Data Aggregation, Business Intelligence & Financial Modeling
• Consolidate, synthesize, and automate complex datasets spanning multiple manufacturing facilities, bills of materials (BOM), standard costing systems, and supply chain logistics logs.
• Extract, manipulate, and audit transactional, inventory, and cost ledger data utilizing Oracle ERP (Cloud ERP, Amazon Datalake and PowerBI).
• Architect and deploy executive-ready, interactive Power BI dashboards that deliver real-time operational visibility into key manufacturing metrics (e.g., PPV, scrap rates, plant throughput, and labor absorption).
•  Design and maintain sophisticated, scalable Excel financial models leveraging Power Query, dynamic arrays, scenario managers, and advanced formula architecture.
•  Budgeting, Forecasting & Variance Analysis
• Direct the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), quarterly updates, and monthly rolling forecasts for manufacturing plants, direct material spend, freight, and conversion costs.
• Perform deep-dive variance analysis comparing standard vs. actual performance across Purchase Price Variance (PPV), Material Usage Variance (MUV), labor efficiency, volume variance, and under/over-absorption.
• Collaborate with Procurement to track commodity price indices, supplier contract renegotiations, currency fluctuations, and macro inflation/deflation trends.
• Monitor inventory turns, analyze safety stock thresholds, and model Excess & Obsolete (E&O) reserves to optimize cash flow.
• Strategic Storytelling & Business Partnering
• Distill complex manufacturing metrics and multi-variable financial variances into concise, high-impact executive summaries, visual bridge charts, and strategic narratives.
• Prepare and support Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs) with Plant Managers, the VPs of Lines-of-Business, and the CFO, providing transparent visibility into financial trajectory, risks, and opportunities.
• Action-Oriented Solutions & Continuous Improvement
• Move beyond historical reporting to identify cost leakages, operational bottlenecks, and scrap anomalies; partner with plant engineering to establish root-cause corrective actions.
• Establish standardized reporting cadence, cost-tracking methodologies, and inventory governance across all plant operations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Data Analytics, or related quantitative field. 
• Typically requires 4+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, Operations Finance, Plant/Manufacturing Cost Accounting, or Supply Chain Financial Analysis.
• Expert modeling capabilities (Power Query, dynamic arrays, complex multi-variable lookup matrices, scenario modeling, sensitivity tables).
• Demonstrated success building semantic models (DAX, Star Schema) and developing published executive dashboards.
• Hands-on experience with ERP Systems.
• Deep knowledge of standard costing, routings, absorption accounting, scrap allocation, and manufacturing P&L mechanics.
• An inquisitive problem-solver who independently investigates variances, engages cross-functional teams, and drives process fixes.
• Although infrequent, this role may require occasional in-office attendance outside of the standard hybrid schedule to support meetings, execution and/or team events.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct hands-on experience with Oracle preferred.
• Commercial manufacturing and DoD program finance experience is a plus.
• Strong preference for the selected candidate to work in a hybrid capacity from Phoenix, AZ, where the team is based and the majority of the manufacturing operations are located.

This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government.

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com

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