Financial Analyst

This position supports the pricing and finance team with analysis, customer profitability / cost-to-serve and commercial performance as well as price maintenance, reporting, budgeting, and other data driven insights. This position is designed for a recent graduate who is eager to learn and grow within a fast-moving manufacturing and distribution environment.

Tied to DCU Core Values

• Available: Supports team members by providing timely data, reports, and communication.
• Reliable: Produces accurate work, follows through on tasks, and maintains strong attention to detail.
• Economical: Helps identify opportunities to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and strengthen margins.
• Innovative: Uses data to discover insights, streamline processes, and recommend improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain customer price files.
• Perform micro level item profitability analysis and macro level analysis to optimize customer and business profitability.
• Perform impact analysis on pricing and tariff changes.
• Retrieve and organize data from multiple systems.
• Assist with costing and margin analysis.
• Support forecasting and budgeting activities.
• Maintain weekly and monthly and internal financial metrics reports and analysis.
• Perform variance analysis on revenue, expenses, and operational trends.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• Proficient in Excel data analysis tools.
• Proficient in PowerPoint and the Microsoft suite.
• Experience / exposure to database or data warehouse technology.
• Experience / exposure to business intelligence data base tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Business Objects, Qlik Sense, etc.
• Comfort working with data and building models.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• High attention to detail.
• Aptitude for critical thinking.
• Clear communication and willingness to learn.

Who Thrives in This Role

Someone who is dependable, eager to learn, comfortable with numbers, and excited to grow into progressively more complex pricing and financial work. Someone who values collaboration and incremental improvement. Someone who is detail oriented, committed to accuracy and ownership of produced data analysis and reports.