Senior Supply Chain Cost Analyst

This opportunity is located within our Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company business, a global leader of mission-critical hardware and systems solutions including precision energetics systems and innovative explosive solutions.

Job Description

EBAD is seeking a Senior Supply Chain Cost Analyst to drive enterprise-level working capital performance through advanced financial analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and disciplined data governance. This role acts as the primary interface between Finance and Supply Chain, enabling informed decision-making across inventory strategy, vendor terms, and operational planning.

Role Focus:

• Support project and stock inventory decisions through financial modeling and scenario analysis.
• Partner with procurement and category leaders on vendor terms and payment structures, quantifying cash, cost, and risk tradeoffs.
• Support KPI reporting and interpretation for inventory, working capital, and cash metrics. Monitor and analyze inventory turns, days on hand, excess and obsolete and slow moving inventory, across all categories.
• Own master data governance support and maintenance routines to improve transaction and reporting integrity.
• Act as the primary interface between Supply Chain and Finance for working capital topics.
• Drive standard work around inventory control and best practices across all three sites in EBAD.
• Ensures compliance with internal controls and audit requirements

Key Responsibilities:

Inventory and Working Capital Decision Support

• Build decision models for inventory actions (safety stock, lot sizing, MOQs, lead times, demand variability) and quantify impacts to cash, inventory turns, service levels, and total cost.
• Drive PFEP across all sites and ensure adherence to the process .
• Support excess/obsolete reduction plans while protecting customer commitments and production continuity.

Vendor Terms and Payment Strategy

• Partner with Procurement to evaluate payment terms, pricing structures, LTAs, and buy strategies.
• Quantify tradeoffs across cash timing, total cost, and supply risk; provide negotiation analytics and decision briefs.

KPIs, Reporting, and Insights

• Own reporting and interpretation of supply chain finance KPIs: inventory turns/aging, excess and obsolete, DOH/DPO, cash conversion impacts, and key drivers.
• Build simple dashboards and narratives for operating cadence reviews; identify root causes and action-focused insights.
• Support inventory forecast and report on monthly outlooks. Ensures accurate inventory valuation and reconciliation in coordination with accounting and finance.
• Supports SIOP process related to inventory projections.

Master Data Management and Maintenance

• Support governance and upkeep for key data elements impacting supply chain performance and financial results (item master, vendor master, planning parameters, terms fields).
• Ensures and drives accountability across planning teams to maintain system integrity on reordering method and other inventory parameters within item master.
• Establish and run routines for exception reporting, audits, and change control in partnership with Supply Chain, Finance Systems/IT, and Accounting.
• Reduce manual workarounds and errors (invoice holds, planning exceptions, cost/valuation issues) through process discipline and targeted fixes.

Cross-Functional Problem Solving

• Serve as the working capital bridge between Supply Chain and Finance; align assumptions, reporting definitions, and action plans.
• Coordinate problem solving across Operations, Programs, Quality, Engineering, Accounting, and IT as needed.
• Apply EBOS practices around problem solving activities.

Scope and Decision Rights

• Accountable for: financial modeling, KPI integrity, master data governance support, and decision support. Build policies around planning processes and train planning managers and planning team in the adequate inventory control process.
• Not accountable for: supply chain execution (remains with Supply Chain and Procurement).
• Influence through analysis, clarity of tradeoffs, and cross-functional alignment.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Supply Chain, systems engineering or related field.
• 5 years in finance, operations finance, or supply chain finance roles.
• Strong modeling and analytical capability; able to translate operational decisions into cash and working capital outcomes.
• Working knowledge of ERP master data concepts and controls (item and vendor master, planning parameters).
• Proven ability to influence cross-functionally and communicate clearly with leaders.

Preferred Qualification:

• Manufacturing or aerospace and defense experience; exposure to inventory control and other strategic materials analytics
• Familiarity with standard costing and inventory valuation drivers (absorption, PPV).

Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, or veteran status.