Financial Analyst
Job Overview
The Financial Analyst supports financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and business analysis activities for the Soft Rock business. This role partners with regional finance teams
and business leaders to deliver accurate financial reporting, identify risks and opportunities, analyze operational performance drivers, and support executive decision-making.
The analyst is responsible for consolidating forecasts, preparing management reporting packages, maintaining planning tools, and driving continuous process improvements across
FP&A activities.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Support financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting activities for the Soft Rock business.
- Own and maintain the Soft Rock Global Machine Movement file and related reporting used for forecasts, weekly estimates, outlooks, and actual results.
- Coordinate and perform reconciliation of Soft Rock Global BBB data to ERP systems, ensuring data integrity and reporting accuracy.
- Collaborate with regional finance teams and business stakeholders to improve forecast accuracy and reporting consistency.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives through reporting automation, process optimization, and business intelligence solutions.
- Analyze financial and operational performance, including bookings, sales, margins, inventory, manufacturing costs, and working capital, identifying key drivers, risks, opportunities, and trends.
Predominant Tasks
- Prepare and consolidate weekly estimates, outlooks, annual operating plans, and business plan submissions while ensuring accuracy and timely completion.
2. Analyze financial performance, including bookings, sales, margin, inventory, manufacturing costs, and working capital. Identify key drivers, risks, opportunities, and variances versus plan and prior year.
3. Support forecasting, budgeting, and financial reporting processes through detailed analysis of bookings, sales, margins, inventory, and operational performance.
Qualifications/Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative field.
2-5 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Finance, Accounting, or a related analytical role.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including financial modeling, Pivot Tables, Power Query, and reporting automation.
Experience with financial planning, ERP, business intelligence, and analytics platforms such as SAP, OneStream, Power BI, Palantir, or similar systems.
Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, or operational reporting in a manufacturing, industrial, or service organization.
Key Skills Required by Komatsu
COLLABORATION
Working together with one or more people to complete a project or task or develop ideas or processes.
ADAPTABILITY
Having the ability to adjust to changes in their environment.
HUNTER MENTALITY
A combination of traits that can help someone achieve their goals with consistency and precision.
BUSINESS ACCUMEN
Having the ability to understand business situations and make sound decisions that lead to successful outcomes.
APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE
Being able to use what you’ve learned to make decisions and complete tasks in different situations.
LEADERSHIP
The ability to guide, influence or lead others to accomplish a shared goal.