Financial Analyst, FP&A

Patrick Industries, a publicly traded company headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana, invites you to join a team of dedicated Team Members who are passionate about delivering high-quality products and exceptional customer service. As a leading solutions provider serving a diverse range of markets across the United States, our commitment to innovation, quality, and sustainability has positioned us as a high growth, diversified and empowered Team of more than 10,000! Your adventure awaits!

The Financial Analyst supports the Corporate FP&A team's planning, reporting, and analysis cycles, reporting to the Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis. The role is responsible for preparing and maintaining forecast schedules, recurring management reporting, and variance analysis, and works directly with business unit finance teams and corporate department owners to gather inputs, validate data, and explain results.

This is a development role, with a clear path toward Senior Analyst as scope and independence grow.

Responsibilities & Duties:

Planning & Forecasting

• Prepare forecast and budget schedules for assigned business units and corporate departments, including data collection, input, and validation
• Maintain planning models, templates, and supporting workbooks, and document assumptions across planning iterations
• Reconcile business unit and department submissions, and follow up on missing, late, or inconsistent inputs
• Support the annual budget and long-range planning calendar

Management Reporting & Variance Analysis

• Prepare recurring management reports, dashboards, and reporting packages on the monthly and quarterly calendar
• Perform budget, forecast, and prior year variance analysis, and draft written explanations of material variances
• Pull, reconcile, and validate financial and operational data across the ERP and reporting systems
• Partner with Accounting through month-end close to resolve data, timing, and classification questions

Department & Business Partner Support

• Support corporate department planning through spend reporting, budget tracking, and routine department owner questions
• Assist business unit finance teams with recurring reporting requests and data pulls
• Track and report key performance indicators on a recurring basis

Analysis & Continuous Improvement

• Complete ad hoc analysis and modeling requests from the FP&A Manager and Finance leadership
• Support industry and market data collection across Patrick's RV, Marine, Powersports, and Housing end markets
• Identify and implement improvements that reduce manual effort in recurring reporting and planning work

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience in FP&A, accounting, corporate finance, or a comparable analytical role; manufacturing or public company experience a plus
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including lookup functions, pivot tables, and structured multi-tab workbooks; Power Query a plus
• Working knowledge of the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows, and how they connect
• Experience working in an ERP or enterprise planning system; exposure to Power BI, SQL, or another reporting or data query tool preferred
• Demonstrated accuracy and attention to detail in recurring, deadline-driven work
• Clear written and verbal communication, and comfort asking questions of business partners outside Finance
• Ability to manage multiple requests against a fixed close and reporting calendar
• High personal integrity, accountability, and commitment to Patrick's BETTER Together culture

What Success Looks Like

Within the first twelve months, a successful Financial Analyst:

• Independently prepares the recurring management reporting package with minimal review comments
• Owns forecast schedules for assigned business units and departments end to end
• Serves as the first point of contact for assigned department owners on budget and spend questions
• Drafts variance explanations that require little rework before they reach leadership

Benefits Include:

Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Insurances, Paid Vacation, 401K Match, Holidays, Health Club and Tuition Reimbursement

At Patrick Industries, BETTER Together is our commitment to being our best while striving to bring out the best in one another as we join forces Individually, as Teams, with our Business Units, with our Customers, our Communities and within our entire Patrick family.

Patrick is an Equal Opportunity Employer.