Financial Analyst
Job Description
Support Lutron’s Operations Finance and Corporate Finance teams with reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and COGS-focused analytics used for management decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate budgeting, financial analysis, and reporting for a defined area of ownership within Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
- Own the annual budget process for business partners
- Perform monthly variance analysis versus budget and summarize insights for stakeholders
- Prepare consolidated monthly and quarterly forecasts using key drivers identified by organizational leaders
- Analyze trends across operating expenses, capital expenditures, and related areas
- Identify efficiency improvement and cost savings opportunities through analysis of large data sets
- Assess the financial impact, risks, and opportunities of business decisions proposed by leadership
- Produce monthly variance analyses and support/enhance financial reporting
- Research cost drivers using historical trends and expected performance
- Lead business reviews with business partners and the finance team
- Provide detailed financial analytics to support monthly updates
- Equip business partners with data needed to meet or exceed financial commitments
- Proactively recommend actions to business partners related to risks and opportunities
- Partner with Accounting during the monthly close process and ensure compliance with Lutron’s accounting policies
- Develop data and visuals for board of director and audit committee presentations
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required
- Minimum cumulative 3.00 GPA required for all degrees earned
- Minimum 2 years of work experience required
- Preferred: 1 year of experience in finance and/or accounting with monthly reporting responsibility
- Strong Excel data analytical skills required
- Preferred: experience in manufacturing
- Plus: experience in SAP
- Authorized to work in the U.S.; Lutron does not offer work visa sponsorship for this position (including H-1B)
Location & Work Setup
- Coopersburg, PA (onsite)
Tools & Technologies
- Excel
- SAP