Capital & Project Finance Analyst

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Function Statements

Capital Budgeting & Forecasting

• Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering leadership to build and maintain the annual capital budget and multi-year capital plan across all manufacturing plants.
• Track capital spend against approved budget and project scope on a monthly basis, by project and cost center, flagging variances for follow-up.
• Maintain rolling forecasts of capital commitments and forecast-to-complete for active capital projects.
• Support the Senior Director, Corporate FP&A in monthly and quarterly capital spend reporting to executive leadership.
• Maintain a centralized, well-documented project file for approvals, business cases, spend support, forecasts, and post-investment results.

Project & Business Case Support

• Partner with the Manager of Engineering and Director of Manufacturing to develop business cases and ROI/payback analysis for growth, cost-savings, and capacity expansion capital projects.
• Prepare capital appropriation requests and supporting financial analysis for capital project approvals.
• Track project milestones, spend-to-date, and committed vs. uncommitted capital across the active capital project portfolio.
• Analyze actual project spend and timelines against approved business cases, flagging scope or budget deviations.
• Maintain a rolling capital-project forecast, including actual spend, committed costs, forecast-to-complete, expected in-service timing, and material scope or budget changes.

Capital Replacement & Maintenance Strategy

• Support development of the capital replacement and ongoing maintenance capital strategy across manufacturing plants.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering to prioritize maintenance capital requests and align spend with asset condition and risk.
• Maintain visibility into planned vs. actual maintenance capital spend by plant.

Fixed-Asset Transition & Partnership with GL Accounting

• Coordinate with Engineering, project owners, and GL Accounting to validate in-service dates and financial completeness for completed capital projects to support timely transfer from construction-in-progress to fixed assets.
• Partner with GL Accounting on the fixed-asset register, supplying accurate capital project detail (cost, useful life, location) for each asset.
• Support fixed-asset physical verification and tagging efforts for new manufacturing capital as needed.

Controls & Compliance

• Maintain documentation and controls over the capital approval, tracking, and reporting process.
• Ensure capital spend and approvals comply with company capital policy and delegation of authority.
• Support internal and external audit requests related to capital spend and fixed assets.
• Perform other duties as assigned.