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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