.Littelfuse is one of America's Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensorsswitches to fuses and morewe produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.Reporting to the Manager Financial Planning and Analysis, you as a Sr. Financial Analyst will be responsible for preparing monthly management reporting and analysis for various businesses within the IBU reporting segment. Additional responsibilities include the preparation of outlooks, forecasts, annual operating plans and strategic plans. Sales and product management support will also be critical responsibilities of this role with respect to pricing analysis and establishment, product line profitability, and management of rebates and forecasting and associated accruals. The position will interface with all business functions and corporate finance.About the job:- Management reporting and analysis.- Preparing monthly reporting and communicating to management, inclusive of manufacturing and operating expense variances as well as full P&L driver-based analysis.- Work directly with corporate functions to submit and align monthly/quarterly reporting and forecast requirements.- Provide timely analysis of financial performance with appropriate variance analysis, identifying key drivers for deviations against plan, forecast and prior periods.- Prepare presentation materials to communicate financial performance drivers to leadership.- Establish root cause analysis to help key decision makers drive actions.- Own and drive process optimization.- Improve utilization of tools and systems (SAP, BW, Power BI, One Stream, ,etc.) to help drive efficiency and improve business insights.- Annual Plan & Quarterly Forecast.- Support select IBU businesses in the preparation of the annual plan and quarterly forecasts.- Manage the process of loading, validating and consolidating all costs.- Ensure accuracy and consistency in the data preparation, collection and reporting process.- Sales and Product Management Support.- Work directly with Product Managers to provide financial information and metrics.- Drive the preparation of price/volume/mix analysis and gross profit reporting by customer and product.- Manage the rebate programs and accrual calculations.- Support business in Sales forecasting and Sales & Operational Planning.- Operating Expense Management, Capital Analysis / Ad Hoc Analysis.- Report, Analyze and forecast operating expenses throughout the year