Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst
About Us
Original Composites and Fibers (OCF) is a global leader in glass reinforcement solutions for the composites industry. Recently separated from Owens Corning, the business now operates independently under the Praana ownership model, continuing a strong legacy of innovation, manufacturing excellence, and customer partnership.
We are building lean, execution-focused corporate functions to support commercial operations, regulatory compliance, and foundational governance across Europe (including the Middle East). This role supports the ongoing legal needs of OCF’s European entities in a complex, multi-jurisdiction environment.
About the Role
The Financial Planning and Analysis ("FP&A") Analyst provides analytical support and leadership to the OCF FP&A team and the OCF business leadership. The FP&A Analyst gathers, analyzes, prepares and summarizes recommendations for strategic and operating plans as well as near-term financial forecasts. This individual will be responsible for assisting with the consolidation and reporting of financials of the business including the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.
Key Responsibilities
Live the Safety standard, adhere to the safety responsibilities.
- Adhere to OCF safety policies and personal safety action plan at all times
Business Planning and Forecasting
- Develops and maintains financial models and consolidation tools to support the operating and strategic plans and forecasts
- Ensures integrity and quality of financial and statistical data
- Identifies process inefficiencies and information gaps, and bridges those gaps through process design and re-engineering as it relates to forecasting, planning and financial modeling
- Works closely with regional OCF finance teams to understand forecast submissions, variances from prior forecasts/plan, and SID submissions to assist in telling the consolidated OCF story
- Continuously builds an intimate knowledge of the OCF businesses to provide insightful analysis in comparison of actual results to submitted budgets and forecasts
- Works closely with Director and Vice-President of Finance on critical financial matters
- Participates in annual long-range strategic planning process to consolidate assumptions and present a range of outcomes
Reporting and Analysis
- Design, maintain, deliver, and own an integrated and consolidated financial forecast analysis model that provides a forecast of the business for OCF globally.
- Lead EBIT SID consolidation and preparation ensuring compliance with corporate financial standard.
- Assist in preparation of monthly communication through management decks and is the key point of contact for working capital.
- Assists in preparation of presentations to the Management Team and Praana.
- Owns the forecasting and analysis of working capital, drives process enhancements to improve on forecasting accuracy, and shares insights with regions to ensure accurate inputs in financial forecasts
Qualifications & Requirements
Minimum Qualifications & Experience
- 5-7 years of experience in business or corporate finance with broad mix of assignments and experience across many functional areas.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field required.
Preferred Qualifications & Experience
- Experience in multi-national, manufacturing corporation
- CPA and/or MBA highly desirable
- Strong expertise in Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint
- Knowledge of SAP, BI and Workiva
Skills & Abilities
Knowledge and Abilities:
- Demonstrates strong analytical skills working a corporate multi-national environment.
- Demonstrates an ability to identify associations between seemingly independent events to recognize trends in financial forecasts, problems before they arise and possible cause-effect relationships.
- Demonstrates strong ability to accumulate, organize and manipulate quantitative data to identify and explain trends, problems and their causes. Compare, contrast and combine information to determine underlying issues.
- Strong superlative communication (written/verbal) skills to work with colleagues across various geographies, including logically structuring and delivering presentations.
- Demonstrates strong ability to organize, deliberate, and reliable in structuring work, and effective problem solver.
- Demonstrated some experience in working on cross-functional and multi-department enterprise-wide projects.
Personal Characteristics:
- Competes on Analytics: Bright individual, with ability to combine analytical reasoning, creativity and judgement. Quick study, able to handle complex matters, deal effectively with strategic issues, as well as tactical operational details.
- Adaptability: Ability to respond quickly to the demands of the moment. A flexible person who can stay productive when the demands of work pull in many different directions at once. Maintaining effectiveness in a variety of environments.
- Accountability: Knows what needs to be done and gets it done. Willingly takes responsibility for the organization as a whole; unafraid of owning the results, actions and decisions of self or organization. Committed to follow through to completion - excuses and rationalizations are totally unacceptable.
- Curiosity: Naturally curious, leading one to seek knowledge about people and things that stretch beyond one's own work environment. Thrives in a dynamic work environment, where new subject matter is learned and quickly put into practice. An information "sponge" - constantly absorbing new methods, technologies and approaches that will deliver business outcomes.
- Edge: Strives towards goals with decisiveness and determination. Demonstrates courage to take risks, demands excellence and drives for results with speed. Faces into conflict, interacts with candor and addresses challenges with urgency.
- Judgement and Decision Making: Recognizes issues, problems, or opportunities and determines whether action is needed. Chooses appropriate action by formulating clear decision criteria and evaluates options by considering implications and consequences. Implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time.