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About KARL STORZ
From the operating room to clinics-and everywhere in between-KARL STORZ United States is a global leader in medical technology and advanced visualization solutions. We design innovative systems that help physicians make informed clinical decisions and improve patient outcomes worldwide.
We are seeking aSenior Financial Analyst to join our team in Charlton, MA, Auburn, MA or El Segundo, CA. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of finance and operations.
The Impact You'll Make
You'll serve as a strategic finance partner to operations-bringing strong cost accounting fundamentals, sharp analytical thinking, and business insight to drive profitability, cost transparency, and smarter decision-making.
Hybrid (3 days in office) | El Segundo, CA * Charlton, MA * Auburn, MA
Are you a strategic, datadriven finance professional who thrives in highvisibility roles? Join the KS North America FP&A team, where your insights will directly influence financial performance and strategic decisionmaking across the organization.
As a Senior Financial Analyst, you'll partner closely with senior leadership and crossfunctional stakeholders to deliver clear financial narratives, actionable insights, and consistent planning and reporting standards. This is a standout opportunity for someone who enjoys combining deep financial analytics, system expertise, and business partnership to drive real impact.
Why This Role Is Exciting- High exposure to senior leadership and enterpriselevel initiatives
- Meaningful influence on forecasts, strategy, and operational decisions
- A chance to modernize FP&A through automation, analytics, and SAPbased tools
- Collaborative environment with both regional and global partners
- Hybrid flexibility with a strong inoffice team culture (3 days/week onsite)
- Analyze financial performance across North American entities, highlighting key variances versus budget, forecast, and prior year-and clearly communicate drivers, risks, and opportunities to leadership.
- Integrate strategic priorities into rolling forecasts and recommend databacked adjustments.
- Lead communication of approved forecasts and plans across FP&A business partner networks.
- Collaborate with Global FP&A to align on timelines, consolidated reporting, and corporate submissions.
- Support longrange planning, annual budgeting, and periodic forecasts; ensure accurate, ontime, highquality submissions.
- Partner with Accounting to incorporate accruals, intercompany balances, and other nonFP&A inputs.
- Prepare consolidation and corporate reporting deliverables within group systems.
- Support SAP master data governance (cost centers, GL accounts, profit centers, internal orders).
- Consolidate and analyze headcount and personnel cost forecasts using driverbased methods.
- Build executivelevel scorecards, KPIs, and summaries; recommend costsaving and marginenhancing actions.
- Enhance FP&A standards, templates, tools, and documentation.
- Drive process optimization, standardization, automation, and SAP/SAPAnalyticsCloud adoption.
- Support FP&A systems implementations and develop user training materials.
- Deliver highquality ad hoc analyses for executives and crossfunctional initiatives.
- Evaluate business cases for enterprise initiatives, operational projects, and potential acquisitions.
- Coordinate capital expenditure planning and reporting.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Engineering, or a related field
- 5 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, financial reporting, or analytics
- Strong understanding of P&L and Balance Sheet drivers
- Experience with ERP systems (SAP/SAC strongly preferred)
- Experience building dashboards and visualizations (SAP Analytics Cloud, Tableau, or similar)
- Ability to translate complex datasets into concise, executiveready insights
- Solid analytical foundation, including statistical techniques
- Excellent communication skills; confident partnering across functions and influencing at the Director level
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fastpaced environment
- Working knowledge of SAP financial data structures (GL, cost/profit centers, internal orders, master data)
- Strong financial modeling skills for scenario planning and forecasting
- MBA or Master's degree (Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Data Science, or similar)
- Medical technology or manufacturing industry experience
- Experience with SQL, Python, VBA, or similar tools for automation and data validation
- SAP Analytics Cloud expertise
- Experience leveraging AI tools to boost productivity and analytical efficiency
Work Model: Hybrid - 3 days per week in office
Locations: El Segundo, CA | Charlton, MA | Auburn, MA
If you're energized by turning financial complexity into strategic clarity-and want your work to matter-this role offers both impact and growth.
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KSEA provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, KSEA complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment.