<p>Are you a strategic finance professional ready to step into a broader leadership role? Our Robert Half Madison team is seeking a hands-on finance leader to drive cost accounting, forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis activities in a dynamic manufacturing environment. <strong>Candidates currently in a Senior Financial Analyst role who are looking for growth into a more expansive finance leadership opportunity could be an excellent fit and are also encouraged to apply.</strong> This position is ideal for someone who enjoys partnering across the business, improving processes, and turning financial data into meaningful business insight. Please apply with your most up to date resume and call 608-716-5643 for more detail and consideration! </p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Key Responsibilities: </u></strong></p><ul><li>Lead, mentor, and develop team members while driving process improvements, reporting efficiencies, and stronger financial controls. </li><li>Manage budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning processes across multiple business areas. </li><li>Lead cost accounting activities, including standard costing, variance analysis, margin analysis, and cost control reporting. </li><li>Oversee inventory-related financial analysis, including aging, reserves, and manufacturing cost trends. </li><li>Partner with operations and cross-functional teams to support product costing, project accounting, and financial decision-making. </li><li>Collaborate with auditors and internal stakeholders to provide documentation, analysis, and support for audit and compliance needs. </li><li>Analyze budget-to-actual results and key financial trends, providing insights and recommendations to improve performance. </li><li>Support treasury operations including cash flow forecasting, liquidity planning, debt management, and banking-related reporting. </li><li>Prepare and enhance financial models, dashboards, management reporting, and ad hoc analysis to support leadership decision-making. </li></ul>
We are looking for a Credit & Collections Manager to support lending and portfolio management activities in Madison, Wisconsin. This is a Contract position for a detail-oriented candidate with experience in residential and consumer lending, including mortgage products associated with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae guidelines. The role focuses on evaluating credit exposure, guiding resolution strategies for challenged accounts, and helping maintain strong client relationships through loan modifications and renewals.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Review consumer and residential credit portfolios to assess risk, recommend actions, and support sound lending decisions.<br>• Partner with existing borrowers to address delinquency concerns, negotiate practical workout solutions, and manage modification or renewal discussions.<br>• Evaluate creditworthiness using financial data, loan history, and repayment patterns to determine appropriate approvals or collection strategies.<br>• Oversee collection efforts across assigned accounts while balancing recovery objectives with customer retention and regulatory expectations.<br>• Support credit approval activities by analyzing loan structures, exception requests, and overall borrower capacity.<br>• Contribute to the design or improvement of departmental workflows, controls, and reporting practices when building or refining credit and collections operations.<br>• Apply knowledge of mortgage-related lending standards, including loans connected to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae requirements, in day-to-day portfolio decisions.<br>• Provide insight on more complex lending situations, with added value for accounts involving commercial credit exposure when applicable.
<p>Join one of Robert Half’s top clients — a growing, well-respected organization known for investing in its people, driving innovation, and building a high-performing culture. This <strong><em>Sr. Financial Analyst </em></strong>role is an exciting opportunity to join a business that is expanding strategically and offers strong visibility, meaningful partnership, and long-term career growth. For immediate consideration and more detail, please call Aislynn at 608-716-5643!</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Assist with quarterly forecasting by maintaining financial models, evaluating risks and opportunities, and helping deliver accurate, high-quality forecasts. </li><li>Contribute to monthly close activities, reporting enhancements, process improvement initiatives, and priority projects such as system upgrades, business intelligence tools, and acquisition integrations. </li><li>Analyze business performance against budget and forecast and identify key variances and root causes.</li><li>Support the full planning cycle for annual operating plans, including process coordination, timeline management, scenario modeling, and financial consolidation. </li><li>Partner closely with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Marketing, and Engineering, to develop plans, monitor results, and explain key business drivers.</li></ul><p><br></p>
We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst-Sales/Commercial to strengthen commercial finance operations for a construction-focused organization in Waukesha, Wisconsin. This position combines reporting, performance analysis, commission support, and cross-functional financial partnership to help leaders make informed business decisions. The ideal candidate brings strong technical skills, sound financial judgment, and the ability to organize complex data while balancing recurring deliverables and urgent requests. This role also offers the opportunity to grow into broader commercial planning, forecasting, and strategic analysis responsibilities over time.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Lead recurring commercial reporting activities across daily, weekly, monthly, and on-demand cycles, ensuring deliverables are accurate and timely.<br>• Administer and improve business intelligence reporting tools by managing user access, resolving reporting issues, and enhancing reliability of financial data.<br>• Combine, reconcile, and standardize information from multiple platforms to create consistent reporting views for sales and finance stakeholders.<br>• Analyze data irregularities, investigate reporting variances, and implement process improvements that reduce manual work and strengthen data quality.<br>• Partner closely with sales leadership to provide insight into revenue, bookings, billings, backlog, and overall commercial performance.<br>• Support commission operations through calculation reviews, payout validation, reporting, inquiry resolution, and related journal entry preparation.<br>• Contribute to forecasting, target-setting, annual planning, and sales variance analysis by comparing results against plan, forecast, and prior periods.<br>• Build financial models and scenario analyses that identify risks, uncover opportunities, and support commercial decision-making.<br>• Assist with incorporating newly acquired businesses into standardized reporting structures and scalable finance processes.
We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst- FP& A-Operations to support financial planning, performance analysis, and reporting for operations and supply chain activities in Waukesha, Wisconsin. This position works closely with plant and business leaders to turn financial data into practical recommendations that improve cost efficiency, productivity, and working capital results. The role also contributes to budgeting, forecasting, month-end close activities, and the development of reporting tools that strengthen visibility into operational performance.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Partner with operations, supply chain, and plant leadership to evaluate financial results and identify opportunities to improve margins, efficiency, and cash flow.<br>• Contribute to annual budgets, periodic forecasts, and longer-term planning by compiling inputs, reviewing assumptions, and aligning financial targets with operational priorities.<br>• Assess plant performance through analysis of labor, overhead, productivity, inventory, freight, and cost of goods sold, then communicate meaningful drivers behind results.<br>• Prepare clear variance reporting against budget, forecast, and prior-period performance, offering actionable insights to support business decisions.<br>• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting tools in Power BI to give leaders timely visibility into key operational and financial metrics.<br>• Support month-end close by extracting data from enterprise systems and subledgers, preparing schedules, and recording journal entries related to manufacturing and operations activity.<br>• Review cost-reduction initiatives and capital-related analyses to help quantify business impact and distinguish realized savings from estimated opportunities.<br>• Assist with reconciliations, compliance-related activities, and process reviews to improve reporting accuracy and financial control.<br>• Work with cross-functional teams to strengthen data quality, standardize reporting practices, and improve consistency across business units and plants.