FP&A Global Assets Finance Partner and M&A

The Gowan Co. is seeking a finance business partner to support Global Assets Finance with a focus on Mergers and Acquisitions and FP&A. This onsite role in Yuma, AZ offers an opportunity to build financial models, provide leadership-ready insights, and partner across Commercial, Finance, and operational teams to strengthen decision-making. You will help shape the company’s operating model build-out and contribute to budgeting, forecasting, and variance storytelling.

What you’ll do

• Prepare, analyze, and explain historical and projected financial information.
• Model and evaluate M&A opportunities by building pro forma financial models and analyzing key drivers of the target business (strategic considerations, business model, spend structures, assets, and key risks).
• Partner with Finance and Operational leaders to validate assumptions, assess synergies, and confirm inputs to the pro forma model.
• Perform rigorous valuation and quantitative analysis, including tax impact and purchase price allocation.
• Deliver analysis on agreed deadlines, or proactively surface potential conflicts and challenges with sufficient lead time.
• Serve as a strategic finance partner to the Commercial organization with guidance, strategic insight, and decision support.
• Collaborate with accounting and finance partners to support accurate data gathering and contribute to the build-out of the company’s operating model.
• Stay current on industry trends, market dynamics, and economic factors that may affect financial performance, providing analysis and recommendations to manage risks and opportunities.
• Generate metrics that measure growth, profitability, expenses, efficiency, and productivity.
• Support the bottom-up budgeting process by working with department heads to drive accountability to the budget.
• Deliver monthly financials and explain variances versus budget and forecast, including the narrative behind the numbers.

What we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field (MBA is a plus).
• 5+ years of financial and data analysis experience.
• Expert-level capability in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with Power BI and Power Query is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills with close attention to detail.
• Leadership skills and the ability to partner effectively across all organizational levels.
• Creative, resourceful problem-solving with the ability to work autonomously.
• High energy, self-starter mindset, and ambition.
• Comfort working in a remote working environment, with strong communication skills.
• Willingness to travel up to 10%.

Tools you’ll use

• Microsoft Excel
• Power BI
• Power Query

Role details

Full-Time, Yuma, AZ (onsite). Salaried, Exempt. Reports to the Global FP&A Director. No direct reports.

Working conditions

• Office environment with extended desk time using a computer.
• Light filing and occasional travel.
• Occasional overtime may be required.