Business Operations Analyst (Manufacturing)

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

Group/Division

KLA's Global Supply Chain (GSC) oversees sourcing, supplier contracting and management, materials management, direct and indirect procurement, and logistics and trade compliance. GSC leads activities to establish and manage an innovative, reliable, efficient, effective and compliant global supply chain and logistics structure that strengthens KLA's competitive advantage.

What You'll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Business Partnering & Supply Chain Finance (Essential)

A. FP&A Ownership & Financial Planning

• Handle global manufacturing warehousing financial performance across actuals, forecasts, budgets, and strategic planning cycles.
• Perform detailed variance analysis against budget, forecast, prior year, and strategic plan assumptions.
• Lead forecasting and planning activities, incorporating operational assumptions and input from business partners.
• Build and maintain financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning, and case evaluations.

B. Logistics Finance & Cost Management

• Develop a strong understanding of global manufacturing warehousing operations and related logistics activities, including warehousing, distribution, transportation, fulfillment, and the associated financial and operational cost drivers.
• Support month-end and quarter-end close activities and logistics financial governance processes, including accrual reviews, invoice validation, purchase order monitoring, cost reallocations, financial controls, reporting, and management reviews.
• Develop, maintain, and lead cost allocation methodologies for manufacturing warehousing and shared logistics expenses across business divisions.
• Support investment decisions and projects related to manufacturing warehousing operations, capacity planning, and logistics network optimization.

C. Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary finance business partner for KLA's global manufacturing warehousing operations.
• Partner closely with manufacturing warehousing operations, logistics teams, procurement, and regional finance organizations to analyze operational and financial performance, understand cost drivers, and recommend ways to improve cost efficiency and service performance.
• Prepare executive-level reporting, presentations, and financial commentary that support sound financial decisions and accountability across manufacturing warehousing and logistics organizations.

D. Continuous Improvement & Transformation

• Simplify, standardize, and automate logistics finance processes to improve efficiency, reporting quality, and scalability.

Data Analytics & Digital Insights (Preferred)

• Use Snowflake, Power BI, and other enterprise data platforms to analyze large and sophisticated datasets, identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and support business reporting and financial analysis.
• Build and maintain reporting datasets, dashboards, and management reporting solutions while partnering with Digital Solutions, Finance, and Operations teams to improve data quality and reporting capabilities.
• Translate sophisticated analytical findings into actionable recommendations and support data-driven decision making through reporting automation and business intelligence solutions.

AI & Process Automation (Preferred)

• Leverage AI-enabled tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Cowork, and other approved enterprise AI platforms to improve efficiency and business outcomes.
• Support automation initiatives that streamline reporting, forecasting, and financial analysis processes.
• Support the adoption of AI tools and effective ways of working as part of the company's digital transformation efforts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting manufacturing warehousing, logistics, manufacturing operations, or supply chain finance organizations.
• Proven understanding of manufacturing warehousing operations, warehouse cost drivers, and logistics processes.

Experience with:

• Power BI
• Snowflake
• SAP
• Power Query
• OneStream, TM1, Essbase or other planning systems
• Experience building executive dashboards, financial models, and automated reporting solutions.
• Exposure to AI-enabled efficiency tools and process automation technologies.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Supply Chain, Analytics, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in FP&A, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics finance, business operations, or a related analytical role.
• Strong understanding of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and variance analysis.
• Experience partnering directly with operational teams and translating business requirements into financial insights.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Use of AI Statement 

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.

We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.