Overview
This role supports the financial health and strategic growth of product portfolios by analyzing costs, pricing frameworks, and margin targets. The analyst integrates financial metrics into the sales quotation process, conducts variance analysis, and delivers actionable profitability reporting to leadership. The position also partners cross-functionally by contributing to and preparing analysis for the monthly Product Price & Material Cost Review.
Responsibilities
Profitability Analysis & Reporting
- Drive profitability analysis globally across all data center products and key customer accounts.
- Develop, implement, and prepare standard recurring reporting to track product and customer portfolio financial performance and margin health for executive leadership review.
- Lead quarterly product line profitability reporting and conduct regular variance analysis against financial targets.
- Isolate and analyze direct margins (Price/Revenue – Materials – Labor) to reduce overhead noise and evaluate true transactional performance.
Strategic Costing & Financial Frameworks
- Analyze product line standard and actual costs and baselines across all operations, using internal and external peer analysis and normalized overhead adjustments to support competitive pricing frameworks and target margins (gross and direct).
- Contribute to setting granular margin profiles and targets by product line, reflecting unique ratios of labor, material, and overhead to ensure minimum profitability thresholds.
- Assess customer profitability against product-specific targets.
Product Price & Material Cost Governance
- Assess and communicate the impact of material cost changes, supply chain fluctuations, and inflation on the overall product portfolio.
- Prepare and own key deliverables for the monthly Product Price & Material Cost Review, including:
- Material Cost Changes (analyzing commodity trends, supplier adjustments, and BOM-level impacts)
- Margin Bridge Analysis (comparing standard versus current costs and evaluating price-versus-cost deltas by product and customer)
- Execution Tracking (monitoring active pricing actions in-flight and tracking actual realization against plans)
- Identify margin risks (e.g., underperforming products, contract price recovery restrictions) and partner with commercial teams on actions such as temporary/permanent price increases, surcharges, and cost-mitigation strategies.
Commercial & Quotation Support
- Support sales quotation and commercial processes by preparing holistic financial analysis that factors in cost, price, and inflationary trends to protect margins.
- Integrate standard costing and margin targets into the sales quotation process, evaluating new program bids and quotations to support enterprise financial goals.
- Partner with Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Management to investigate variances, identify operational root causes, and support continuous margin improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in Finance or related field.
- Minimum 2–3 years of Finance or Data Analysis experience.
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in ERP systems (SAP and Visual a plus).
- Strong experience with Microsoft Office Excel and willingness to leverage AI tools.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally in a global environment.
Preferred Qualifications
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: estimated in good faith to be [minimum amount – maximum amount]. The specific offer will depend on qualifications, experience, and other job-related considerations, but will be within the stated range.
- Competitive health, dental & vision insurance coverage.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- After 90 days of continuous employment:
- Maternity Leave (12 weeks at 100% pay)
- 8 weeks of short term disability leave paid at 100%
- 4 weeks of paid parental leave paid at 100%
- Paternity Leave (4 weeks at 100% pay)
- 401k Retirement plan and company paid match.
- Life Insurance.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
- Short Term Disability (company paid).
- Long Term Disability.
- Competitive time-off policies.
- Tuition Reimbursement.
Location
Racine, Wisconsin (U.S.)
Work Authorization
This position is not eligible for any form of sponsorship (e.g. OPT or H1B visa status) now or in the future. Only individuals authorized to work in the United States now and for the foreseeable future will be considered for this position.