FP&A Analyst - Planning, Cost & Cash Performance

Job Opportunity At Hach Imagine yourself…

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
• Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.
• Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence.

At Hach, a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions. As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you'll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you'll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world's everyday water needs, and where you'll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth. Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we're working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment.

We offer

• Flexible and hybrid work model
• Work-life balance
• Health & wellbeing
• Learning & development
• Recognition & milestones

About the role Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, the FP&A Analyst, Planning, Cost & Cash Performance plays a critical role in supporting enterprise planning, forecasting, and below-gross-margin performance. This role provides primary FP&A ownership for planning processes, cost and cash performance, and scenario-based decision support—helping finance leadership understand risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities while improving forecast discipline and visibility. This position is part of the Finance / FP&A department located in Bogota, Colombia, and will be remote. In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Supporting monthly rolling forecasts, quarterly outlooks, and core planning processes for assigned business areas
• Owning forecast files, planning models, assumptions tracking, and risks-and-opportunities logs
• Analyzing OPEX, SG&A, headcount, and key cash and working-capital drivers, including inventory, AR, AP, and other balance-sheet items
• Preparing variance analysis versus plan, forecast, and prior year for cost, cash, and below-gross-margin performance
• Building and maintaining scenario models, sensitivity analyses, and decision-support tools for finance leadership
• Partnering with functional finance and regional stakeholders to validate assumptions and improve forecast accuracy and discipline
• Reconciling intercompany sales, margins, and costs between legal entities
• Supporting ad hoc analyses tied to productivity, spending, headcount, cash conversion, and enterprise performance priorities
• Conducting price-mix analysis and performing customer- and product-level analytics to support commercial and business decision-making

Planning cycle ownership

• Close / Week 1 focus
• Support close-week reviews of opex, headcount, spend, and balance-sheet sanity checks
• Update and consolidate forecast files and core planning assumptions
• Maintain risks-and-opportunities views and support scenario updates
• Complete internal segment reviews and finalize cost, cash, and R&O materials by Day 4
• Support segment deliverables and leadership reviews by Day 5
• Mid-month focus
• Rolling forecast coordination and quarterly outlook preparation
• Scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis
• Cost, headcount, and productivity improvement analysis
• Working capital and cash conversion initiatives

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a related field
• 4 years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, cost finance, or a closely related role
• Demonstrated experience supporting planning, forecasting, or outlook processes
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial modeling, including scenario and sensitivity analysis
• Experience analyzing cost, headcount, and cash or working-capital drivers

Success in this role is measured by:

• Timely, accurate forecast and outlook delivery
• Clear insight into cost, headcount, cash, and working-capital performance drivers
• Improved visibility to forecast risks and scenario outcomes
• Reduced cycle-time duplication through clear ownership of planning and cost/cash processes

About Hach Hach is proud to be part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto's global network of 17,000 associates, you join a culture where purpose meets possibility—where the work you do has an everyday impact and where you'll have opportunities to deepen your skillset, grow your career, and safeguard the world's most vital resources™. At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job