Senior Finance Analyst

What you’ll do: Senior Finance Analyst for the HPO Helsinki manufacturing plant and a key member of the plant leadership and region/division finance teams. Reporting to the Plant Controller, the role manages plant financial performance through planning, forecasting, actual-performance and business-driver analysis, operational metrics, and financial modelling. The role provides financial guidance to operations, safeguards company assets, and builds FP&A capability to support sustainable returns. Key Responsibilities: • Build financial models and scenario analyses to assess operational and financial impacts. • Lead analysis of site operating costs and translate results into recommendations on cost efficiency, pricing, productivity, and overall performance for the Plant Manager and Plant Controller. • Identify financial risks, advise leadership, and develop mitigation strategies aligned with corporate objectives. • Coordinate with zone controlling/accounting, sales, operations, supply chain, and HR to deliver timely, accurate, and insightful reporting, planning, forecasting, and analysis. • Monitor revenue recognition, cost allocations, and margins. • Support and manage product costing, inventory valuation, cost estimates, annual standard-cost updates, and manufacturing tariffs. • Review financial data and reports for accuracy, consistency, transparency, and integrity. • Establish, monitor, and improve internal controls that safeguard assets and ensure proper financial transactions, including compliance with corporate policy and SOX requirements. • Identify and implement opportunities to simplify, digitize, and improve on-site processes. • Manage and support project cost accounting and fixed-asset accounting activities. • Apply strong SAP capability and support effective use of finance, planning, data-warehouse, and reporting systems. • Develop payroll and cost-accounting processes. Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a closely related field. • Minimum 5 years of finance experience in a manufacturing environment, including demonstrated success in cost-reduction projects and plant-productivity improvement. Skills: • Fluent Finnish and English language skills • Manufacturing finance and plant processes; planning and forecasting; financial modelling and scenario analysis; cost and management accounting; product costing and standard-cost updates; revenue recognition, allocations, and margin analysis; project cost accounting; fixed-asset management; payroll processes; US GAAP; SOX and internal controls; SAP; finance planning and data/business-warehouse tools. • Power BI experience is an advantage. • Strong analytical judgement; leadership and team-development capability; effective influencing in a matrix organization; cross-functional collaboration; clear communication; business acumen; risk awareness; continuous-improvement and digital mindset. #LI-OV1