Principal Analyst Manufacturing Finance

Title: Principal Analyst Manufacturing Finance

About GF

GlobalFoundries (GF) is a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors, enabling AI at scale from the cloud to the physical world. Through deep partnerships with customers, GF delivers differentiated, power efficient and high-performance solutions for high growth markets. With global manufacturing operations across the U.S., Europe and Asia, GF is a trusted and holistic technology partner for customers around the world. GF’s talented, global team remains focused every day on security, longevity, and sustainability. For more information, visit www.gf.com.

Support Manufacturing FP&A activities, including forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, KPI tracking, and management reporting. Partner with global manufacturing support teams to deliver accurate financial insights, identify risks and opportunities, drive savings initiatives, and improve standardized processes.

Your Job:

• Partner with functional leaders to deliver monthly forecasting, actuals reporting, and variance analysis; proactively surface risks/opportunities and recommend actions

• Maintain worldwide data integrity and KPI performance tracking; investigate anomalies, apply structured root-cause analysis and ensure key drivers are clearly understood and communicated

• Develop and manage the planning and close calendars across the BU and fabs globally to ensure disciplined, on-time FP&A deliverables

• Own monthly financial reporting to Executives, translating complex data into clear insights, key drivers, and actionable recommendations

• Track productivity and efficiency metrics with strong attention to detail; validate data sources and continuously improve measurement methodologies

• Drive savings initiatives with Operations through rigorous analysis, hypothesis-driven inquiry and disciplined root-cause problem solving

• Provide ad-hoc analysis and executive-ready materials; synthesize information rapidly, frame the right questions, reconcile inputs across datasets and ensure accuracy in all deliverablesxxxxx

Required Qualifications: 

• Education BS in Finance plus 2 of relevant experience, including solid FP&A (forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis and management reporting) or equivalent experience

• Years of Experience 3 years

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Strong FP&A foundation with demonstrated financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis skills

• Demonstrated business partnering capability, including relationship building, constructive challenge and influencing key stakeholders

• Strong written English communication with the ability to tell a clear financial story to different audiences

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across functions and geographies (e.g. Coordinates stakeholders across time zones in a matrix setting, enabling decisions in virtual forums and influencing outcomes without direct authority

• Inquisitive mindset; demonstrates intellectual curiosity, asks incisive questions and applies critical thinking to identify underlying business drivers

• Demonstrated initiative and ownership; drives issues to closure through structured analysis and effective follow-through

• Exceptional attention to detail and data accuracy; consistently delivers high-quality, audit-ready outputs

• Customer orientation with a service mindset toward internal stakeholders

• Ability to meet tight deadlines while maintaining high-quality, detail-oriented deliverables in a fast-paced environment

• Strong understanding and proficiency of financial planning systems and tools (SAP, Oracle Microsoft Office suite)

• Experience in a manufacturing environment, with the ability to partner effectively with operational teams

• Demonstrated ability to develop and drive standardized processes

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