Job Description
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Financial Analyst / FP&A Consultant
Job Description
This Senior Financial Analyst / FP&A Consultant role provides temporary coverage for the FP&A function during a leadership leave, with a primary focus on supporting month-end and quarter-end close reporting. You will work extensively in Excel to consolidate, map, analyze, and validate financial data, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting. The role includes a shadowing period with the current FP&A leader through multiple close cycles, followed by independent ownership of close activities for a key quarter-end period.
Responsibilities
- Support month-end and quarter-end close activities from business day -1 or -2 through business day 8, ensuring deadlines are consistently met.
- Work extensively in large, complex Excel reporting workbooks with multiple tabs, formulas, pivot tables, and data inputs to prepare accurate financial reports.
- Map financial data from local ledgers into SAP account structures and final consolidated reporting accounts, maintaining consistency and accuracy.
- Prepare, update, and maintain close-related financial reporting files, schedules, and templates to support internal reporting needs.
- Review financial outputs for accuracy, reasonableness, and completeness, identifying potential errors, unusual variances, or unexpected balances.
- Perform variance analysis and support basic FP&A reporting needs, providing clear explanations for key movements and trends.
- Document processes, capture detailed notes, and leverage existing standard operating procedure videos and training materials during onboarding and ongoing work.
- Collaborate closely with the FP&A team to shadow the current manager through multiple close cycles, then independently support the September quarter-end close.
- Handle limited ad hoc finance and reporting tasks as bandwidth allows, contributing to broader finance initiatives as needed.
- Operate primarily in Excel with limited ERP involvement, ensuring data integrity and alignment between spreadsheets and source systems.
Essential Skills
- Strong experience as a Financial Analyst or in FP&A, with demonstrated experience in corporate financial reporting and analysis.
- Extensive month-end close experience, including supporting close reporting through multiple business-day deadlines.
- Advanced Excel skills, including expertise with pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and working with complex formulas and large data sets.
- Proven ability to manage large, complex Excel workbooks with multiple tabs, inputs, and linked schedules.
- Experience performing variance analysis and a solid understanding of how financial outputs and reports should look.
- Ability to identify glaring issues, unusual balances, or reporting errors in financial work products and escalate or correct them appropriately.
- Comfort working with limited ERP involvement, relying primarily on Excel-based processes and tools.
- Availability to start quickly and commit to the assignment through mid-October.
- Ability to work onsite in Saginaw on a hybrid schedule, ideally four days per week.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Prior FP&A manager-level experience, including ownership of close processes and reporting, is highly beneficial.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment or working with multi-ledger structures is a strong plus.
- Experience mapping local ledger accounts into SAP or other consolidated reporting structures is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is helpful but not required for candidates with strong, relevant experience.
Work Environment
This role is based in an office environment in Saginaw with a hybrid schedule, ideally four days onsite and one day remote per week. You will work primarily on a computer using large, complex Excel workbooks and will interact with SAP and other financial systems for data mapping and validation. The work centers around structured month-end and quarter-end close timelines, with more intensive workloads from business day -1 or -2 through business day 8. The environment emphasizes accuracy, attention to detail, and collaboration, with access to standard operating procedure videos and training materials to support onboarding and process consistency. Dress expectations align with a typical professional office setting.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Saginaw, MI.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $39.00 - $44.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Saginaw,MI.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Aug 14, 2026.
About Aston Carter
Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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