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Finance Planning And Analysis Analyst

The ideal candidate is a highly analytical finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing or industrial environment and enjoys partnering with operations leaders to drive business performance. You have a strong foundation in FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis, with the ability to connect operational activities to financial results and identify opportunities to improve profitability. Comfortable working with large data sets, ERP systems, and business intelligence tools, you can transform complex information into clear insights that support decision-making. You are collaborative, detail-oriented, and proactive, with a proven ability to build relationships across finance, operations, sales, and accounting teams. Experience in construction materials, cement, aggregates, ready-mix, asphalt, or other heavy industrial industries is highly valued, along with a passion for continuous improvement and delivering measurable business impact.

This role can be located in Rapid City, SD, Denver, CO, or El Paso, TX.

What You Will Do

The FP&A Analyst supports financial planning, performance analysis, and decision support across GCC's multi-product construction materials business, including aggregates, ready-mix, asphalt, and cement.

This role is highly operationally focused, partnering with general managers, commercial teams, and accounting to analyze volume, pricing, cost drivers, and logistics. The Analyst plays a key role in improving margin visibility and financial discipline across a complex customer and product mix.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of annual budgets, rolling forecasts, long-range plans, and capital budgets across multiple product lines and regions.
• Partner with operations and commercial teams to align financial plans with market demand, production capacity, and business objectives.
• Administer and optimize CAPEX approval processes, ensuring compliance with budgets, policies, and capital planning goals.
• Analyze key cost drivers, including raw materials, energy, transportation, labor, equipment utilization, maintenance, and downtime.
• Perform variance analysis and provide actionable insights on business performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Monitor and report operational and financial KPIs, including production volumes, throughput, plant efficiency, utilization, and margin trends.
• Develop dashboards, reports, and executive presentations that provide visibility into performance across regions, plants, product lines, and key customers.
• Serve as a strategic finance partner to operations, sales, accounting, and business leaders by translating operational data into financial insights and recommendations.
• Drive continuous improvement through process standardization, workflow optimization, and enhanced financial reporting capabilities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Experience and Abilities You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or related field required.
• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, operations finance, or a related field, with exposure to construction materials manufacturing (aggregates, cement, ready-mix, or asphalt) and/or heavy industrial or manufacturing environments.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including financial modeling, forecasting, and analysis of large data sets.
• Experience working with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or similar enterprise platforms.
• Familiarity with production and operational systems such as BCMI, FastWeigh, or comparable applications.
• Proficiency with business intelligence and reporting tools, including Power BI, Prophix, or similar platforms.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into actionable business insights.
• Ability to connect financial performance to operational drivers and identify opportunities to improve business results.
• Strong business partnering and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across finance and operations teams.
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy in high-volume, fast-paced transactional environments.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically up to 1015% of the time.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within the construction materials industry, including aggregates, cement, ready-mix, or asphalt operations.
• Background in manufacturing, industrial production, or other heavy industrial environments.

Who We Are:

GCC is a world-class company that produces, distributes, and markets cement, ready-mixed concrete, aggregates, and innovative products related to the construction industries in Mexico and the United States. We take pride in being a market leader with a culture of innovation, high performance, and safety. GCC offers a very competitive benefits program including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability insurance plans, and a 401K.

You will love working here because:

At GCC, employees are our most important resource. As a part of the GCC family, you'll be welcomed into a culture that promotes the company vision and internal career growth. Our company vision is to have our customers recognize us as a business partner that generates the most value for their construction projects. We're a sustainable growing company, a great place to work, and a solid investment for our shareholders. GCC is an enterprise with a global and sustainable approach. Our production is mainly devoted to the manufacture and sale of gray Portland cement, mortar, premixed concrete, concrete blocks, plaster, aggregates, and other construction materials. Join the family!

An Equal Opportunity Employer

GCC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, genetic information, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions are based on job-related factors.