Finance Associate – SG&A & CapEx – SG&A & CapEx

Job Description

Finance Associate – SG&A & CapEx | Rehlko

The Tone:
This is a full-time hybrid role at Rehlko, located in Kohler, WI, requiring 2-3 days on-site. Rehlko is a global leader with over a century of experience in energy resilience, focused on creating an energy-resilient world through solutions like engines, generators, power conversion, UPS systems, EV components, microgrid controls, and clean energy. This Finance Associate role is crucial for providing essential financial and analytical support across Power Systems North America, directly influencing strategic decision-making and ensuring disciplined management of indirect expenses and capital investments that underpin solutions critical to sustaining and improving life globally.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, Kohler, WI
• Pay: $62350–$77950 yearly
• Team: Reports to the Controller – Americas FP&A, Marine & Switchgear; partners with functional leaders across Power Systems North America; provides dedicated financial ownership for the Switchgear business.
• Mission: This person provides financial and analytical support for indirect expense management and capital planning across Power Systems North America, ensuring financial discipline and informed decision-making.
• Tech Stack: Advanced Excel, SAP

What You’ll Actually Do
• Business Partnering: Collaborate directly with functional leaders across engineering, development, marketing, selling, systems, BES, and administrative teams to deliver objective, data-driven financial analysis, aligning decisions with financial commitments.
• Indirect Expense Management: Lead the comprehensive planning, development, and consolidation of indirect expense budgets and forecasts, working closely with Engineering, Finance, HR, Marketing, and Selling teams on headcount planning and ongoing spend management.
• Capital Planning Leadership: Spearhead the capital planning process for Power Systems North America, encompassing annual target setting, project consolidation, detailed evaluation, and continuous monitoring, while establishing and enforcing monthly capital forecasting rigor.
• Switchgear Business Ownership: Assume dedicated financial ownership of the Switchgear business, including all aspects of budgeting, forecasting, and detailed variance analysis, partnering closely with business leaders to promote financial discipline.
• Financial Reporting and Process Improvement: Develop and maintain robust reporting tools and dashboards to track expense and capital performance, conduct monthly variance analysis, and drive continuous improvement initiatives in financial processes and cost management.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting required, for an early career position.
• Experience: 0 to 5 years of relevant experience in areas such as FP&A, cost management, or capital planning.
• Skills: Strong analytical and financial modeling capabilities; proficiency in Advanced Excel and SAP preferred; strong communication and cross-functional partnership skills are essential.
• Bonus: Experience within manufacturing, industrial, or engineered products industries; familiarity with supporting engineering organizations, product development, or capital-intensive operations; experience in headcount planning, labor forecasting, and indirect cost management; knowledge of capital investment evaluation methods including ROI, NPV, IRR, and payback analysis; experience assisting with month-end close activities, journal entries, and accruals.