Finance Manager

About the role

Partner with your team and develop all planning, and forecasting models while overseeing their continuous innovation and communication to both your operations & other business partners. Working and presenting the financial narrative on our long term plans, with a focus on key risks and opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Manage and participate in finance and accounting activities across several locations.
• Recommend, develop, and implement policies and programs that guide the organization in maintaining and improving its competitive position and profitability.
• Create a “learn by doing” environment by engaging with on-the-floor associates and managers to promote and encourage continued customer focus.
• Leading components of our long term planning, ad-hoc project analyses, and planning related insights.
• Working with partner teams to identify and report on key financial metrics.
• Working with partner teams to understand gaps behind planning related variances.
• Continuously improving existing processes with an eye toward automation, scalability, and efficiency.
• Complete complex business modeling and analysis to identify operating improvements and deep dive on cost structures.
• Influence business decisions with effective verbal and written communication, data driven analysis and modeling, and presentation of options and alternatives.
• Facilitate financial review meetings with various levels of leadership to ensure effective finance and cost management.
• Recommend, develop, and implement policies and programs that guide the organization in maintaining and improving its profitability.
• Work with data source providers and technology teams to ensure that key data is timely and accurate.
• Manage data in financial systems, and create insightful reports to drive business decisions.
• Reconcile financial reports across different businesses; drive process improvements, automation, and consistency.
• Drive regular metrics reviews, as well as analytical support through deep-dive analyses.
• Improve tools, processes, scale existing solutions, create new solutions as required based on stakeholder needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
• 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

Qualifications

• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of SQL/ETL
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos)
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results

Skills

• Effective verbal and written communication
• Data driven analysis and modeling
• Presentation of options and alternatives
• Financial modeling and analysis
• Process improvements with automation and analysis
• Continuous improvement projects

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave