Join Our Team as a Financial Analyst at Johnson Electric!
Location: Springfield, TN (onsite)
Vacancy Type: Existing Position
Schedule: Full-Time
As our next Financial Analyst, you’ll serve as a financial partner to plant, regional, and business leadership in a fast-paced automotive manufacturing environment. You’ll use plant-level financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and business intelligence to help leaders understand operational drivers, improve profitability, and make informed business decisions.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
- Professional Growth: Build your financial planning and analysis expertise while gaining exposure to plant operations and business leadership.
- Collaborative Culture: Partner with Operations, Materials, Customer Service, Supply Chain, Sales, and other cross-functional teams.
- Technology & Analytics: Use Excel, Power BI, ERP systems, automation, and emerging technologies to improve financial reporting and analysis.
- Global Environment: Build your career within a global organization while developing deeper expertise in manufacturing and operational finance.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Support annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and monthly plant forecasting while partnering with business teams to challenge assumptions and improve forecast accuracy.
- Analyze actual financial performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods and explain key business and operational variances.
- Evaluate sales, volume, EBITDA, headcount, CAPEX, cost reductions, material, labor, overhead, and other financial and operational performance drivers.
- Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights and recommendations for finance and non-finance leaders.
- Partner with Operations, Materials, Customer Service, Supply Chain, Sales, and other functions to identify financial risks, opportunities, cost improvements, and profitability initiatives.
- Support manufacturing performance reviews, investment evaluations, capacity and resource planning, and other plant-level operational decision-making.
- Develop and continuously improve financial reports, KPI dashboards, analytical tools, and management reporting using Excel, Power BI, ERP systems, and other available technologies.
- Consolidate financial, sales, volume, EDI, and operational information while improving data accuracy, reporting efficiency, standardization, and automation.
- Identify opportunities to apply automation, AI, and emerging technologies responsibly to improve the speed, quality, and effectiveness of FP&A processes and financial analysis.
What We’re Looking For:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
- 2+ years of full-time professional financial analysis experience after graduation; internships and co-op assignments do not count toward the required experience.
- Plant-level FP&A or operational finance experience within automotive, manufacturing, or another fast-paced industrial environment.
- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, management reporting, and financial performance analysis.
- Strong understanding of general accounting, cost accounting, and manufacturing or operational cost drivers.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience working with ERP systems, financial reporting tools, or related business systems.
- Strong analytical, structured problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to turn complex financial information into clear business insights for finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
Bonus Points If You Have:
- Power BI dashboard development or other business-intelligence reporting experience.
- Experience with sales and volume bridge analysis, EBITDA, headcount, CAPEX, cost reductions, or manufacturing-cost analysis.
- Experience integrating financial, EDI, sales, manufacturing, and operational data into financial analysis and reporting.
- Experience automating recurring financial reports or analytical processes.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted financial analysis, reporting tools, or other emerging Finance technologies.
How to Apply: Apply online at www.johnsonelectric.com. We can’t wait to meet you!
What We Offer
Johnson Electric offers talented people like you the opportunity to grow professionally and personally, surrounded by some of the most dedicated, innovative, and entrepreneurial colleagues you will find anywhere. We offer competitive pay and benefits, along with a culture driven by our values and designed to ensure that our most important asset, our people, can flourish.
Johnson Electric welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates participating in any stage of the selection process.
Johnson Electric is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive and diverse workplace. Applicants should advise Human Resources if they require accommodation during the recruitment process.
Please note: Johnson Electric may use Artificial Intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process.
Come join our global, inclusive & diverse team
Our purpose is to improve the quality of life of everyone we touch through our innovative motion systems. We are a truly global team bound together by our shared values. Our culture is built on the diversity, knowledge, skills, creativity, and talents that each employee brings to the company. Our people are our company’s most valuable asset. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace where employees of different backgrounds feel valued and respected, regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity or religious background. We are committed to inspiring our employees to grow, act with ownership and find fulfilment and meaning in the work they do.
