Financial & Data Analyst
Entry-level (0-4 yrs) financial and data analyst at a steel-products manufacturer in West Des Moines, IA, working directly with the CFO on cost models, pricing, budgeting, variance analysis, and market research, and automating AI-assisted reporting using Excel, Tableau, ERP data, and AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Des Moines, IA
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Junior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 0+ years
- Category
- Data analytics
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, or another quantitative field
- 0-4 years of professional experience (internships, co-ops, and serious academic or personal projects count)
- Coursework or experience in managerial or cost accounting
- Strong Excel modeling skills and comfort working with large, imperfect datasets
- Genuine curiosity about AI and analytics tools
- Ability to turn numbers into a clear story for non-technical audiences
- Sound judgment and integrity with data: check work, flag discrepancies, protect confidential information
Nice to have
- Experience with a BI tool such as Tableau or Power BI
- Exposure to an ERP system such as SAP, or to a manufacturing or industrial environment
- Plans to pursue a CPA, CMA, or MBA
Full description
HIRSH INDUSTRIES - Financial & Data AnalystLocation - West Des Moines, Iowa (on-site only)
Employment - Full-time | Individual contributor | Reports to CFO
Compensation - Base salary + bonus eligiblity + profit sharing
Most entry-level finance jobs ask you to report what happened. This one asks you to explain why it happened — and what we should do next. You'll work directly with our CFO and executive team on the questions that move a manufacturing business: What does this product really cost to make? Why did margin change last quarter? What happens if we raise prices 4%? Where is the market heading? Then you'll help us turn the answers into automated, AI-powered reporting so the next answer comes faster.
About Hirsh Industries
Hirsh Industries has been making steel products since 1924, when our roots began as the W.P. Johnson Company. Today we design and manufacture office furniture, filing and storage products, lockers, and related steel goods, with headquarters in West Des Moines, Iowa and a manufacturing operation in Dover, DE and Mexicali, Mexico. We are a hands-on, mid-sized manufacturer — big enough to have complex, interesting problems, and small enough that a strong analyst's work gets seen, used, and acted on by the people who run the company.
Why This Role Is Different
- A seat at the table, early. Your analysis goes to the CFO and executive team, not into a queue. You'll present your own work.
- Breadth most analysts wait years for. Cost, pricing, budgeting, market strategy, supply chain, and automation — the exposure of a rotational program in a single role.
- A real AI mandate. We've already connected our core business systems into a single data repository that AI tools can work from. Your job includes figuring out how far we can take that — and you'll be encouraged, not just permitted, to experiment.
- Work you can see. Our products are physical and our plants are real. You'll connect the numbers to the factory floor.
What You'll Work On
- Explain what drives profit. Build revenue bridges that break performance into price, volume, and mix; run budget-versus-actual variance analysis; and help design the KPI scorecards leadership uses to run the business.
- Figure out what things really cost. Build product cost models, develop time-driven activity-based costing, and separate fixed from variable costs so we understand our operating leverage and true product and customer profitability.
- Shape pricing decisions. Model the margin and volume impact of pricing changes and help the commercial team decide where, when, and how much.