Job Description
Role Overview
The Senior Financial Analyst partners with business leaders to drive financial planning, performance insights, and data-driven decision-making. This role blends core FP&A with advanced analytics across customers, products, pricing, and revenue to improve profitability and support growth.
Hybrid role based out of the Chicago office. Monday - Wednesday onsite required
Key Responsibilities
FP&A
• Lead divisional budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes
• Establish financial targets aligned to strategy
• Deliver monthly and quarterly reporting and performance insights
• Partner with business leaders to review results and identify drivers
Analytics & Business Insights
• Analyze customer behavior, segmentation, retention, and pipeline performance
• Evaluate product performance, new product opportunities, and SKU optimization
• Support pricing strategy through elasticity, variance, and discount analysis
• Assess profitability across products, customers, and channels
• Build revenue forecasts, growth models, and scenario analyses
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• 5+ years of FP&A or financial analytics experience
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills
• Advanced Excel, experience with planning tools (e.g., One Stream, Hyperion) and BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) preferred
Core Competencies
• Financial Analysis & Reporting Accuracy
• Strategic Thinking & Financial Acumen
• Stakeholder Communication & Data Storytelling
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Initiative, Problem-Solving & Continuous Improvement
• Ability to translate data into actionable business insight
Compensation & Benefits
• Competitive pay ($92,000 - $120,000) + annual bonus
• 401(k) with 6% company match
• Paid parental leave, generous PTO, & paid holidays
• Work-life balance
• Career growth with exposure to senior leadership.
• Annual merit increase opportunity
• Fitness & Gym Reimbursement
• Employer Contribution - Health, Dental
About Us
Oil-Dri Corporation of America is a leading manufacturer and supplier of specialty sorbent products for consumer and business-to-business markets that has been voted as a Top 100 workplaces in the Chicago Tribune. Oil-Dri’s products are sold in the pet care, animal health, fluids purification, agricultural, sports field, industrial and automotive markets. Oil-Dri controls millions of tons of specialty mineral reserves, including calcium bentonite, attapulgite, and diatomaceous shale. The company’s mines and manufacturing facilities are located in Georgia, Mississippi, Illinois, and California. Oil-Dri is a family-controlled and operated organization that emphasizes honesty, integrity, and accountability. The company is dedicated to fulfilling its mission to Create Value From Sorbent Minerals.
Oil-Dri is committed to providing equal opportunity for all teammates and qualified candidates without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Accordingly, all employment decisions and personnel actions or programs such as hiring, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, transfers, reductions in workforce, and training, etc. will be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity.
