Financial Analyst – Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

Financial Analyst | Rogers Corporation

The Tone:
This is a corporate role at Rogers Corporation, a global leader in materials technology and manufacturing headquartered in Chandler, Arizona. The company produces engineered materials to power, protect, and connect the world, enabling innovations in high-growth markets like advanced electronics and elastomeric material solutions. This Financial Analyst role is crucial for supporting enterprise-wide financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis, delivering insights that drive informed decision-making across the organization. As an early member of the FP&A Center of Excellence, you will contribute to building standardized processes and consistent financial practices company-wide.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Team: Corporate FP&A Center of Excellence, partnering with business leaders and finance stakeholders.
• Mission: Enable informed decision-making by analyzing cost drivers, managing budgets, explaining variances, and establishing consistent financial practices.
• Tech Stack: Advanced Excel, FP&A tools, BI tools

What You’ll Actually Do
• Financial Planning: Own corporate-level forecasts, outlooks, and key financial assumptions; support annual budget, rolling forecast, and long-range planning cycles by consolidating business inputs, validating assumptions, identifying risks, and analyzing gaps against enterprise targets.
• Performance Management: Lead monthly and quarterly variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior periods, identifying and explaining key drivers impacting revenue, margin, operating expenses, and cash flow.
• Decision Support: Build and maintain financial models for business cases, strategic initiatives, and ad-hoc analysis, performing scenario and sensitivity analysis to evaluate trade-offs and outcomes, and supporting corporate initiatives such as cost actions and growth strategies.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Prepare executive-ready materials, presentations, and summaries, while collaborating with Accounting, Treasury, Investor Relations, and Business FP&A teams to ensure data accuracy and alignment across the organization.
• Process Development: As an early-stage member of the FP&A Center of Excellence, actively contribute to building standardized processes, repeatable approaches, structured reporting, and consistent financial practices across the enterprise.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related field.
• Experience: 3 to 6 years of professional experience in Corporate FP&A or Corporate Finance, including specific experience supporting FP&A Centers of Excellence or shared services models.
• Skills: Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and financial modeling capabilities with the ability to interpret complex financial data and provide actionable insights; a strong understanding of financial statements, accounting principles, FP&A processes, and financial data structures; and advanced proficiency in Excel.
• Bonus: Prior experience utilizing FP&A or Business Intelligence (BI) tools is preferred.