Financial Planning Analyst (Manufacturing)

Location: Holdrege, Nebraska, USA

Company

Allmand, a hirify.global company, develops rugged light, heat, power, and air equipment for rental, construction, special event, mining, and oil and gas markets.

What you will do

• Support monthly forecasts, annual budgets, long-range planning, and financial reporting.
• Analyze actual results against budgets, forecasts, standard costs, and operational plans.
• Perform production cost analysis covering materials, labor, overhead, purchase price variance, inventory adjustments, and other cost drivers.
• Support standard costing activities, including bills of material, routings, labor and overhead rates, cost rolls, and product cost updates.
• Prepare reporting packages, financial models, dashboards, business performance presentations, and ad hoc analyses.
• Partner with Finance, Operations, Production, Purchasing, Supply Chain, and Sales on variance investigation, corrective actions, margin improvement, cost reduction, inventory accuracy, cash flow, and profitability initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, financial modeling, and communication skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, financial statements, variance analysis, cost accounting, standard costing, inventory accounting, and COGS analysis.
• Ability to work cross-functionally, manage multiple priorities, and translate financial data into actionable business insights.

Nice to have

• Experience in manufacturing, operations, plant finance, or corporate finance.
• Familiarity with SAP, Microsoft Dynamics GP, OneStream, Power BI, or similar ERP, planning, reporting, costing, or visualization tools.
• Experience with production cost variances, PPV, labor and overhead absorption, inventory valuation, and product profitability.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes, bills of material, routings, work orders, cost centers, and operational cost drivers.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with Finance, Operations, Production, Purchasing, Supply Chain, and Sales.
• Focus on continuous improvement, financial visibility, productivity, cost reduction, and profitability.
• Equal opportunity employment consideration for all qualified applicants.