Senior Financial Analyst

KSB is a leading supplier of pumps, valves and related service. Our reliable, high-efficiency products are used in applications wherever fluids need to be transported or shut off, covering everything from building services, industry and water transport to waste water treatment, power plant processes and mining. Founded in 1871 in Frankenthal, Germany, the company has a presence on all continents with its own sales and marketing organisations and manufacturing facilities.

Around the globe, more than 190 service centres and around 3,500 service specialists are on hand to provide local inspection, servicing, maintenance and repair services under the KSB Supreme Serv brand. Innovative technology that is the fruit of KSB’s research and development activities forms the basis for the company’s success.

People. Passion. Performance. It is these three success factors that make KSB the company it is today.

At KSB, we recognise that it is people who actually make the difference – the people we employ and the people we serve. This is why we are committed to equal rights and treatment worldwide and never lose sight of the aspects ecology and sustainability when manufacturing our products.

Senior Financial Analyst

Location: Port Arthur, Texas

Reports to: General Manager, Standard Alloys

Functional alignment with: Regional / USA Finance

The Senior Financial Analyst strengthens cost transparency, product profitability visibility, and operational financial steering at Standard Alloys. This role serves as the financial bridge between Operations and Finance at plant level, ensuring reliable cost structures, accurate standard costing, and clear variance analysis. The position is hands‑on and requires close collaboration with Operations, Industrial Engineering, and plant leadership. The role focuses on cost accounting integrity and operational profitability transparency.

Financial accounting, closing, compliance, treasury, and ERP governance remain under the responsibility of the VP of Finance.

• Own and maintain plant standard costing structure
• Validate and recalibrate cost center rates
• Ensure reliable separation of variable (product‑related) and fixed (structure/capacity‑related) costs
• Monitor absorption logic and identify over‑/under‑absorption drivers

• Apply structured manufacturing cost accounting principles aligned with KSB’s established methodology
• Maintain contribution margin transparency to support operational decision‑making
• Continuously improve cost clarity in alignment with Group standards
• Support disciplined cost logic during ERP transition and system changes

(KSB applies a structured manufacturing cost philosophy comparable to advanced European cost accounting systems; experience in similar environments is beneficial.)

• Provide clear product‑level and part‑family profitability transparency
• Analyze contribution margins and identify structural margin gaps
• Support pricing discussions with cost‑based insights
• Ensure alignment between cost assumptions and operational reality

• Build on existing operational analyses of standard versus actual labor performance
• Validate and institutionalise labor standards and routing assumptions in collaboration with Industrial Engineering
• Ensure cost center rates, routings, and BOM structures accurately reflect operational reality
• Translate known efficiency variances into structured cost steering and margin transparency
• Ensure cost‑related data integrity and consistency within ERP

• Convert identified labor and overhead variance drivers into disciplined cost monitoring and steering mechanisms
• Translate operational performance and efficiency gaps into measurable financial impact
• Support the GM and Operations in understanding EBIT drivers and prioritising improvement actions
• Distinguish structural cost issues from short‑term operational fluctuation

• Support cost logic during ERP transition
• Ensure validated cost structures are properly migrated
• Identify system‑related…