Financial Analyst, Global OpEx – Global OpEx

Job Description

Financial Analyst, Global OpEx | SharkNinja

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at SharkNinja, located in Needham, MA, with a hybrid work model. SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions, powered by the trusted Shark and Ninja brands, with over 4,100 associates worldwide. This role is crucial for supporting global operating expense forecasting, budgeting, and detailed actuals analysis, delivering critical decision-support insights that drive disciplined OpEx management within a company that fosters bold experimentation and continuous improvement.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time Hybrid
• Location: Hybrid, Needham, MA
• Pay: $58100–$87000 yearly
• Team: Global Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team
• Mission: This person supports global operating expense forecasting, budgeting, and actuals analysis to drive disciplined OpEx management and deliver decision-support insights.
• Tech Stack: Adaptive Insights, Oracle, Snowflake, Excel, Power BI, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini

What You’ll Actually Do
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Support the global OpEx annual budget, quarterly forecast, and monthly outlook cycles, partnering with cost center owners and functional leaders to consolidate, challenge, and align forecasts across regions and departments.
• Reporting & Analysis: Analyze actuals versus budget and forecast variances at the GL, cost center, and department levels, identifying drivers and providing clear commentary and actionable insights for finance leadership.
• Financial Modeling: Develop and maintain models to assess the financial impact of departmental initiatives, run-rate changes, vendor contracts, and expense optimization opportunities, including building scenario analyses for strategic planning.
• Expense Governance: Support purchase order, contract, and accrual review processes, ensuring accurate expense recognition, general ledger hygiene, and compliance with internal controls and approval thresholds.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, with core domain knowledge in financial planning and operating expense management.
• Experience: 2–5 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Corporate Finance, or OpEx/Budget Management. Experience managing OpEx at a granular level (cost center, GL account, and vendor) across a large, multi-region organization is highly preferred.
• Skills: Strong proficiency in Excel, financial modeling, and data visualization tools such as Power BI. Strong ability to interpret complex expense data, identify trends and variance drivers, and effectively communicate findings to business leaders. Demonstrated experience supporting close cycles, accruals, and expense governance with attention to accuracy and audit-readiness.
• Bonus: Experience with planning systems (e.g., Adaptive Insights), ERP platforms (e.g., Oracle), and data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake). Experience in global or consumer goods/retail organizations. Demonstrated fluency with enterprise AI assistants (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini) to accelerate analysis, modeling, and reporting workflows.