What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Analyst position at Savant Group?
We’re hiring a Financial Analyst at the Savant Group at our Midland, Michigan headquarters.
You’ll play a key role in preparing accurate financial reporting, supporting month-end close, maintaining financial models, and helping leadership make informed business decisions. From consolidated financial statements to cash-flow forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and audit support, you’ll help ensure our financial data is accurate, timely, and useful.
This role is ideal for someone who is analytical, detail-oriented, comfortable working across multiple entities, and able to turn financial information into clear insights and recommendations.
Who We Are
The Savant Group isn’t a single company—it’s a group of specialized businesses that solve complex, technical problems for customers around the world. Headquartered in Midland, Michigan, our companies—Savant Labs, Tannas Company, King, and the Center for Quality Assurance—build and support precision equipment and testing services used across lubrication, transportation, manufacturing, and energy industries.
What matters more than what we do - is how we do it.
We’re a team that values:
- Precision and quality in everything we produce
- Ownership instead of passing problems along
- Collaboration and teamwork to solve challenges
- Continuous improvement in processes, products, and performance
This is a hands-on environment where your work directly impacts business performance, operational planning, and decision-making.
What You'll Own
You’ll help ensure that financial information across the Savant Group and its related entities is accurate, timely, and meaningful. Your mission: support strong financial reporting, improve forecasting and analysis, and provide leadership with clear information to make sound business decisions.
This is a hands-on finance role. You’ll support accounting activities, prepare financial summaries, maintain forecasting tools, analyze variances, and assist with budgets, audits, and internal reporting. You’ll work closely with Finance, Operations, and leadership to improve visibility, strengthen processes, and support continued growth.
What You'll Do
- Post journal entries and accruals, reconcile accounts, and support an accurate and timely month-end close
- Prepare financial summaries and respond to internal and external reporting requests
- Prepare multi-entity consolidated monthly financial statements and management reporting packages
- Analyze results against budget, forecast, and prior periods and provide clear variance explanations
- Build and maintain 13-week direct cash-flow forecasts at entity and consolidated levels
- Partner with AP and AR to update expected receipts and disbursements and flag potential funding risks
- Participate in the development of multi-entity and departmental budgets
- Support annual and rolling forecasts in partnership with the Director of Finance
- Perform cost accounting activities, including labor and burden rate calculations and standard cost updates
- Compile audit-ready workpapers, reconciliations, schedules, and support for auditor requests
- Use ERP and reporting tools to automate reports, improve data quality, and support better decision-making
- Support GAAP compliance, internal controls, accounting policies, and process improvements
- Assist with cross-functional projects and ad-hoc analysis as needed
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required
- 5 years of relevant finance or accounting experience; public accounting experience preferred
- 3 years of experience in a manufacturing or laboratory environment required
- 2 years of experience supporting multiple entities
- Strong knowledge of GAAP, financial reporting, reconciliations, and month-end close processes
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivots, lookup/index-match, and financial modeling
- Experience with ERP systems; QuickBooks and Global Shop experience preferred
- Experience with Power BI or similar reporting tools preferred
- Experience with standard costing, WIP, unbilled AR, deferred revenue, and revenue recognition
- Ability to investigate variances, identify root causes, and translate findings into clear recommendations
- Strong attention to detail, organization, documentation, and follow-through
What You’ll Experience at Savant
We’re not a “check-the-box” kind of company—and we don’t hire people who are either. At Savant, you’ll be surrounded by people who move with urgency, take ownership, and care deeply about doing things right. We value precision, follow-through, and people who don’t wait to be told what to do.
If you’re wired to:
- Take accountability without excuses
- Move at the right pace
- Dig into the details without losing sight of the bigger picture
- Turn data into useful insights and recommendations
- Support decisions with accuracy, clarity, and business judgment
…you’ll thrive here.
The Essentials - we’ve got the fundamentals covered—because they matter:
- Strong health coverage for you and your family
- 401(k) with a competitive company match
- Paid time off that you’re actually encouraged to use
- Life and disability coverage for peace of mind
- Tuition reimbursement for continued growth
- Employee assistance and wellness resources
- Tools and opportunities to grow your skills and advance your career
Apply today to become a Financial Analyst at the Savant Group and be part of helping our businesses make informed decisions, improve processes, and support continued growth.
Learn more at: www.savantgroup.com