FECON · 1 month ago
Finance and Business Analyst
Lebanon, OH
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expFECON, LLC is a vegetation management equipment manufacturer located in Lebanon, Ohio, known for its high-quality products and team culture. The Finance and Business Analyst will serve as a key business partner to finance, sales, and aftermarkets leadership, focusing on supporting reporting, planning, forecasting, and business improvement projects.
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Responsibilities
Core and Aftermarkets Commercial Leadership Support
Develop and publish sales dashboards - Work with inside sales and IT teams to streamline weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports showing actuals vs. targets, trends, and variances
Management decks & presentation prep - Translate data into clear visuals for strategy deployment meetings, board meetings, or executive reviews
Segment and trend analysis – Break down sales by region, product line, dealer type, channel (OEM, Partner, Signature), and customer segment. Calculate parts annuity by machine/application
Sales forecasting – Work with commercial team to create accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts by leveraging historical trends, market data, and CRM information
Scenario modeling – Model different “what-if” scenarios for price changes, programs, or economic impacts. Conduct 80/20 analysis of customers, products, vendors and associated pricing strategies
Volume & revenue projections - Roll up dealer and product-level forecasts into top line revenue and margin projections
Quota and target setting - Assist in establishing RM, dealer, and aftermarkets salesperson quotas based on historical trends and market potential
Discount & incentive analysis - Evaluate how promotions or dealer incentives affect margins
Market and competitive analysis - Support PM and Commercial team to assess and compare performance against competitors and targets. Help with market share analysis. Track market size/share projections to actual results for NPD
Product portfolio analysis - Highlight underperforming or high-potential products and make recommendations for focus
Dealer performance benchmarking - Identify high and low performing dealers to inform RM for improvement and recruitment efforts
Commission and incentive tracking - Complete incentive and commission structure analysis – make recommendations to align with growth goals. Calculate sales commissions for approval and payment by Accounting and HR
Budget management - Track sales spend (marketing, demos, RSM travel) against budgets
Ad-hoc analysis - Support analysis needs and questions that arise about revenue, pipeline, mix, product trends etc
Financial Planning & Analysis
Enterprise wide financial and long-range goal planning - Direct and oversee planning process function, including all annual and periodic financial planning activities. Facilitate finance optimization efforts and drive continuous improvement of the planning and forecasting process
Performance analysis - Continuously monitor company and market performance to determine if strategies require adjustment or new strategies should be introduced. Provide actionable insights to financial and executive management, including creating complex financial models to aid in decision-making. Navigate large amounts of data and information to obtain actionable insights
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) - Assist in the development and subsequent tracking of KPIs to better inform the company’s business leadership of progress towards both short- and long-range goals
Company reporting - Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting for the Leadership Team, analyzing financial results, synthesizing key trends, and identifying business insights. Create senior management and Board communication presentations, enabling effective communication of related strategies
Business improvement - Identify and present opportunities to optimize our business and related financial goals, utilizing financial data modelling and visualization methods and tools
Senior leadership support - Serve as a liaison for senior management to relay their financial planning and business needs/issues. Help to develop new strategies by analyzing internal and external factors impacting the business strategy
Other/ Special Projects
Cross-functional support - Establish and maintain strong, cross-functional relationships with business leaders and teams across the organization. Rally teams and effectively lead, influence, and negotiate across the organization to drive a focused agenda and achieve desired outcomes
Accounting team support - Provide support to peers in accounting, assisting with projects, providing those teams with additional capacity for overflow work requirements
Due diligence and integration of M&A opportunities - Provide support with business development activities
Other ad-hoc analysis and activities assigned
Qualification
Required
B.S. degree in Finance and/or Accounting
5 years' minimum experience ideally gained through increasingly responsible positions
Affiliation with successful manufacturing companies
Working knowledge of automated accounting systems and well-developed financial analysis capabilities
Extensive experience utilizing Microsoft Office (Excel) and ERP systems
strong analytical and reasoning abilities, plus superior numeric skills
capable of managing large quantities of data and effectively utilizing ERP and similarly related systems and tools
build the right relationships to gain support around function's vision and key priorities
Proven ability to recruit, train, and motivate personnel to balance staffing strength with profitability and growth
Well-developed interpersonal skills
comfortable performing multifaceted projects in conjunction with normal activities
strong written and verbal skills
ability to balance profit and other business considerations
Benefits
Competitive wages
Full health care benefits
Company
FECON
Fecon is a machinery company specializing in vegetation management equipment and drills.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2022-01-05Acquired
Leadership Team
John Deszcz
Chief Financial Officer
Brandon Flexsenhar
Chief Operating Officer
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