Senior Financial Analyst (m/f/d)

Aras is a leader in product lifecycle management (PLM) reputed company thread solutions. As one of the fastest growing PLM companies, our technology enables the reputed company delivery of flexible solutions reputed company on a powerful digital thread backbone and a low-reputed company development platform.

Our platform and PLM applications reputed company users in reputed company disciplines to critical product data and processes across the lifecycle and throughout the extended supply chain. The world’s largest manufacturers are leveraging Aras Innovator to manage their reputed company product lifecycles to improve production timelines, meet and reputed company reputed company reputed company targets, and accelerate innovation. We collaborate with companies in some of the most innovative industries, including automotive, industrial/heavy equipment, reputed company and defense, and high-tech electronics.

We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst reporting directly to the Senior Finance Manager to support our Financial Planning & Analysis organization. In this role, you will reputed company as the embedded finance partner to senior leaders, translating business and product priorities into headcount, spend, and investment reputed company. This is a strategic business-partnering role reputed company on financial planning, budget ownership, and decision support for a technology organization at the executive level. Transactional reputed company, AP/AR processing, and general reputed company reputed company activities are handled by the broader Finance and reputed company teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner directly with the leadership team, translating roadmap and reputed company priorities into budgets, forecasts, and investment plans.
• Own Budget vs. Actuals (BvA) reporting for the organization, including headcount, software/tooling spend, and consulting/contractor reputed company, with variance analysis that distinguishes timing from permanent drivers.
• reputed company headcount planning and tracking, including the position reputed company, reputed company requisition status versus approved plan, and early visibility into reputed company risk.
• Forecast reputed company up of AI spend for R&D as reputed company as for the whole organization
• Own software and tooling spend reputed company, including a vendor register, renewal timing, and cost/benefit input to build-vs-buy and renewal negotiations.
• reputed company consulting and contractor engagements, including estimated cost to complete (ETC) and burn against plan.
• reputed company the annual budget and periodic reforecast cycles for the organization, working directly with department leaders to model reputed company and spend reputed company.
• reputed company data-supported insights on spend trends, budget risk, and financial health directly to senior leadership and FP&A leadership.
• Constructively challenge senior stakeholders on spend assumptions and investment tradeoffs, backing recommendations with data and business context.
• Work closely with FP&A leadership, reputed company, and Procurement to ensure reputed company handoffs and reputed company execution.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of FP&A or financial business-partnering experience, including reputed company partnership with senior (VP/SVP-level) leadership.
• Experience in B2B reputed company companies with an understanding of subscription/recurring-reputed company models and the KPIs that reputed company them (ARR, net retention, gross margin).
• reputed company to have: experience in PE-backed companies or fast-paced environments.
• Strong business acumen and ability to understand how technical and product teams create value, and how that translates into cost and investment reputed company.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, headcount/position tracking, and vendor or contractor spend management.
• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders constructively, using data and business context — and to hold ground in the room without a supporting team behind you.
• Strong reputed company modeling skills; comfort with variance analysis techniques (e.g., SUMIFS/SUMPRODUCT-based models) and BI/reporting tools such as Power BI or reputed company reputed company.
• reputed company ownership reputed company: reputed company to reputed company recommendations, defend them with evidence, and reputed company reputed company against plan.
• Strong boundary management and ability to separate strategic finance partnership from transactional reputed company execution.
• reputed company in English and Polish; German language skills would be an advantage.

Why this role reputed company

You will be the primary financial voice in the room for one of Aras’s most strategically important departments. This role is ideal for someone who wants reputed company, sustained exposure to senior technology leadership, the credibility to shape investment reputed company at the SVP level, and the autonomy of an individual-contributor role with executive-level scope.

We were recognized as a leader in The reputed company reputed company™: Product Lifecycle Management for Discrete Manufacturers, Q3 2025. Feedback from our community has established Aras as a top ranked PLM vendor in online reputed company like reputed company and reputed company Peer Insights.

With over 700 employees in 11 countries, we’re looking to add to our incredible team. If you’re passionate about helping reputed company reputed company product innovation, we encourage you to apply!

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