Senior Finance Analyst

What you'll do:

Senior Finance Analyst for the HPO Helsinki manufacturing plant and a key member of the plant leadership and region/division finance teams. Reporting to the Plant Controller, the role manages plant financial performance through planning, forecasting, actual-performance and business-driver analysis, operational metrics, and financial modelling. The role provides financial guidance to operations, safeguards company assets, and builds FP&A capability to support sustainable returns.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build financial models and scenario analyses to assess operational and financial impacts.
• Lead analysis of site operating costs and translate results into recommendations on cost efficiency, pricing, productivity, and overall performance for the Plant Manager and Plant Controller.
• Identify financial risks, advise leadership, and develop mitigation strategies aligned with corporate objectives.
• Coordinate with zone controlling/accounting, sales, operations, supply chain, and HR to deliver timely, accurate, and insightful reporting, planning, forecasting, and analysis.
• Monitor revenue recognition, cost allocations, and margins.
• Support and manage product costing, inventory valuation, cost estimates, annual standard-cost updates, and manufacturing tariffs.
• Review financial data and reports for accuracy, consistency, transparency, and integrity.
• Establish, monitor, and improve internal controls that safeguard assets and ensure proper financial transactions, including compliance with corporate policy and SOX requirements.
• Identify and implement opportunities to simplify, digitize, and improve on-site processes.
• Manage and support project cost accounting and fixed-asset accounting activities.
• Apply strong SAP capability and support effective use of finance, planning, data-warehouse, and reporting systems.
• Develop payroll and cost-accounting processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a closely related field.
• Minimum 5 years of finance experience in a manufacturing environment, including demonstrated success in cost-reduction projects and plant-productivity improvement.

Skills:

• Fluent Finnish and English language skills
• Manufacturing finance and plant processes; planning and forecasting; financial modelling and scenario analysis; cost and management accounting; product costing and standard-cost updates; revenue recognition, allocations, and margin analysis; project cost accounting; fixed-asset management; payroll processes; US GAAP; SOX and internal controls; SAP; finance planning and data/business-warehouse tools.
• Power BI experience is an advantage.
• Strong analytical judgement; leadership and team-development capability; effective influencing in a matrix organization; cross-functional collaboration; clear communication; business acumen; risk awareness; continuous-improvement and digital mindset.

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