Summary:The Senior FP&A Analyst delivers actionable financial insights and supports strategic decision-making across a complex global organization operating multiple legal entities and currencies. This role develops and maintains scalable financial reporting frameworks, drives budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis, and creates executive-level presentations that translate financial data into business recommendations. The position also establishes and documents standardized processes, controls, and reporting methodologies to promote consistency, accuracy, and operational efficiency across the FP&A function.
Responsibilities:Financial Planning & Analysis- Lead global budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis processes across multiple business units, legal entities, and currencies.
- Develop and maintain driver-based financial models to evaluate volume, price/mix, FX, cost, and profitability performance.
- Analyze financial and operational trends, identify risks and opportunities, and provide actionable recommendations to improve business performance.
- Perform foreign exchange (FX) analysis, including transactional and translational impacts, and support constant-currency reporting.
Reporting & Executive Communication- Design, automate, and maintain global financial reporting, dashboards, and analytics using OneStream and other reporting tools.
- Transform reporting packages to improve transparency, highlight key business drivers, and support data-driven decision-making.
- Develop standardized executive, business unit, and plant-level reporting templates and presentations.
- Translate complex financial information into concise, executive-ready insights and recommendations for senior leadership.
Global Consolidation & Business Partnership- Consolidate actual, forecast, budget, and strategic plan results across regions, business units, and legal entities to provide a comprehensive global view of performance.
- Coordinate the global reporting, budgeting, and forecasting calendar, ensuring timely submissions and adherence to deadlines.
- Partner with regional finance, accounting, and operational leaders to validate data integrity, reconcile reporting variances, and align financial performance metrics.
- Support regional and site-level business reviews while maintaining consistent reporting standards and comparability across the organization.
Systems, Process Improvement & Governance- Collaborate with OneStream administrators to support reporting enhancements, planning scenarios, consolidation requirements, and system optimization.
- Establish, document, and maintain FP&A processes, reporting standards, templates, and governance practices to ensure consistency and scalability.
- Drive automation and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance reporting efficiency, data quality, and decision support capabilities.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for OneStream reporting, financial analytics, and FP&A best practices.
Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
- 8+ years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience in a multinational, multi-entity environment.
- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial modeling, and executive reporting.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
- Knowledge of multi-currency reporting and FX analysis.
- Strong analytical, communication, and business partnering capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications:- MBA, CPA, or equivalent professional certification.
- Experience with OneStream or similar EPM/planning platforms.
- Experience with CMS ERP, SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics 365.
- Additional language proficiency and experience supporting global finance organizations.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship. Methode Electronics is not able to provide visa sponsorship-now or in the future-for this role.Work Environment:The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands:The employee must frequently do hand motions and repetitive tasks including computer use with typing, must occasionally carry and lift up to 50 pounds to perform various duties. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will occasionally do immediate reaching and overhead reaching, frequent standing for varied amounts of time to perform various duties, frequent walking for varied amounts of time, and squatting or bending to perform various duties. Occasionally climb stairs.
Work Environment:The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands:The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Frequent hand motion and repetitive tasks including using a computer for typing. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will occasionally do immediate reaching and overhead reaching to perform various duties, frequent standing for varied amounts of time to perform various duties, frequent walking for varied amounts of time to perform various duties. Squat or bend to perform various duties. Occasionally climb stairs.
Benefits and Perks:Methode offers U.S. employees comprehensive benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Hearing, Life and Disability insurance, educational assistance, and paid time off benefits. Voluntary benefit plans include Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and Pet Insurance coverage. Employees also have access to valuable discount programs that can contribute to lowering costs off certain technology, automotive, and home appliance products. In addition, Methode provides an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and participation in the Company's 401(k) plan, which includes a company contribution.
