FP&A Analyst

Mustang Cat Rentals is a leading equipment rental provider serving construction, industrial, infrastructure, and energy customers across the Houston and Beaumont regions. The rental business operates a diversified Rental Services and Heavy Rents fleet across a multi-branch footprint and is scaling toward a centralized, performance-driven operating model focused on utilization, margin discipline, capital efficiency, and cost-to-serve control.

Position Overview

The FP&A Analyst – Rental Operations provides financial planning, performance analysis, and decision support for the rental business. This role partners directly with the Vice President and operational leaders (Sales, Service, Rental Operations, Heavy Rents, and Central Operations) to translate operational activity into clear financial insight, identify performance gaps, and support disciplined execution against budget and strategic targets.

This is an operational finance role embedded in the rental business — not a corporate accounting role.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Planning & Budgeting
  • Support the annual rental budget and quarterly forecast process
  • Build branch-level and department-level operating models
  • Maintain volume, rate, utilization, and cost drivers tied to the operating plan
  • Support long-range planning and growth scenarios
• Performance Reporting & Analysis
  • Produce monthly rental performance scorecards by branch and business line
  • Analyze revenue vs. plan, margin performance, and cost variances
  • Track key operating metrics (utilization, Revenue per FTE, Gross Margin per FTE, cost-to-serve)
  • Identify root causes of underperformance and quantify financial impact
• Decision Support & Business Partnering
  • Partner with leadership on pricing, fleet, and staffing decisions
  • Evaluate financial impact of fleet purchases, redeployments, and dispositions
  • Support ROI analysis for capital deployment and major initiatives
  • Prepare executive-ready financial summaries for leadership review
• Operational Finance & Controls
  • Monitor billing capture, leakage, and margin erosion indicators
  • Support development of standard KPIs and dashboards
  • Ensure consistency between operational metrics and financial results
  • Improve forecasting accuracy through better data and assumptions
• Data, Tools & Systems
  • Build and maintain Excel-based financial models and dashboards
  • Work with Finance, IT, and Operations to improve data quality
  • Support automation and reporting improvements as the business grows
• Success Measures
  • Accuracy of monthly forecasts vs. actual results
  • Timeliness and clarity of monthly reporting
  • Adoption of insights by operational leaders
  • Improved visibility into utilization, margin, and cost-to-serve drivers

Calificaciones

Educación

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field
• Experience
• 3–6 years of FP&A, operational finance, or analytical experience
• Experience supporting operations, multi-site businesses, or asset-intensive environments preferred

Skills & Competencies

• Strong financial modeling and Excel skills
• Ability to translate operational activity into financial insight
• Strong communication skills with non-financial leaders
• Structured problem-solving and analytical thinking
• High attention to detail with a practical business mindset

Experiencia preferida

• Equipment rental, construction, industrial services, or logistics industry experience
• Exposure to fleet, utilization, or capital-intensive business models
• Experience building dashboards or automated reporting

Benefits of Working for Mustang

• Stable, growing company with long-term career opportunities
• Work directly with business leadership and decision-makers
• Competitive salary
• Full benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
• Tuition reimbursement and career development opportunities

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