Financial Analyst, Category Controlling

About the Role

The Financial Analyst Category Controlling plays an important role in connecting finance and the business partnering with Product Category Engineering and cross-functional teams to drive financial visibility accountability and decision-making across the product portfolio. As part of the Sound United SBU finance team the role provides analysis and insights that support profitable growth and the achievement of strategic and financial objectives.

The ideal candidate is analytical collaborative and proactive with the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable business insights.

What You Will Do

• Analyze product category performance including revenue gross margin pricing product mix profitability and key business drivers providing actionable insights to support decision-making.
• Perform financial analysis and scenario modeling to support product category evaluation prioritization and category investment decisions.
• Partner with Product Category and Engineering teams to develop and evaluate business cases validate financial assumptions and assess investment opportunities.
• Evaluate post-launch product performance against business case assumptions profitability targets and return expectations.
• Compile analyze and reconcile actual results versus budget and forecast identifying key variances risks and opportunities.
• Develop and maintain financial models category performance reporting dashboards and key performance metrics (KPIs) to enhance business visibility.
• Support the development of the annual Global R&D budget across shared engineering resources and product categories.
• Ensure financial data integrity across ERP and reporting systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting efficiency and data visibility through automation and process improvements.
• Support special projects strategic initiatives and ad hoc analyses as requested.

What You Need to Be Successful

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting or related field.
• 3-5 years of progressive finance accounting or related experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in financial modeling forecasting budgeting variance analysis and business performance analysis.
• Strong analytical organizational communication and presentation skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams departments and management levels translating complex financial data into meaningful business insights.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience with SAP or other large ERP systems including working with large datasets reporting tools and financial systems.
• Availability to engage in meetings calls and collaborative activities outside normal business hours as required to effectively support a global organization and ensure alignment across international regions.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Experience with Power BI Tableau or other business intelligence tools.
• Experience building profitability models business cases and KPI dashboards.

• Ability to thoughtfully utilize AI technologies to enhance understanding support analysis streamline workflows and improve efficiency while exercising independent judgment and critical thinking.

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard torace religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics.