What are the responsibilities and job description for the Operational Finance Analyst position at Siemens Energy?
A Snapshot of Your Day
As a Cost Controlling Financial Analyst, you will be a key business partner to operations, HR, supply chain, and plant leadership. Your day will blend deep financial analysis with hands-on engagement on the shop floor, ensuring accurate cost visibility, optimizing labor and tooling spending, and supporting strategic decisions. You’ll move between data review, cross-functional meetings, model-building, and operational problem-solving, playing a vital role in driving cost efficiency, resource optimization, and long-term financial sustainability across the facility.
How You’ll Make An Impact
Gas Services
Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Rewards
As a Cost Controlling Financial Analyst, you will be a key business partner to operations, HR, supply chain, and plant leadership. Your day will blend deep financial analysis with hands-on engagement on the shop floor, ensuring accurate cost visibility, optimizing labor and tooling spending, and supporting strategic decisions. You’ll move between data review, cross-functional meetings, model-building, and operational problem-solving, playing a vital role in driving cost efficiency, resource optimization, and long-term financial sustainability across the facility.
How You’ll Make An Impact
- Drive labor cost performance by analyzing trends, variances, headcount, overtime, and productivity while partnering with HR and operations to improve labor utilization; develop forecasting and budgeting models to guide strategic workforce decisions.
- Manage tooling and warehouse financials through tracking costs, depreciation, usage, inventory movements, and CAPEX; lead financial reconciliation during cycle counts and audits while recommending optimization and cost-saving opportunities.
- Support union and non-union labor financial compliance by analyzing wage structures and collective bargaining impacts, ensuring accurate financial tracking, and helping align workforce planning with labor strategies.
- Lead operational cost reporting and insights by preparing dashboards, KPIs, and monthly variance reviews for factory leadership, translating financial data into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Strengthen financial governance by ensuring adherence to internal controls, company policies, and reporting standards while supporting annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and ongoing cost center management.
- Develop advanced financial models and conduct ad hoc analysis to guide decisions related to cost allocation, profitability, tooling utilization, labor strategy, and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in cost controlling, preferably in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Strong understanding of field service operations, tooling logistics, and warehouse management, with experience supporting transformation, change management, and digitalization initiatives.
- Proficient in SAP (especially CO and MM modules) and advanced Excel, with the ability to analyze complex data and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
- Strategic communicator with high integrity, strong stakeholder management skills, and a collaborative, proactive, and purpose-driven approach.
- Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.
Gas Services
Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Rewards
- Work in a friendly team of professionals
- Training and improving professional skills.
- Enrich your business network with key stakeholders.
- Career growth and development opportunities
- Supportive work culture
- Company paid Health and wellness benefits
- Paid Time Off and paid holidays
- 401K savings plan with company match
- Family building benefits
- Parental leave.