Finance Manager, North American Customer Fulfillment

Key job responsibilities

• Business Finance Support:
• Use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models and analyses with little guidance and draw conclusions and make recommendations that deliver results, and drive improvements.
• Independently align financial and operational analyses with your business partners, challenging business partner assumptions when necessary.
• Provide analysis and recommendations to business leaders to support operational and growth business decisions and action plans.
• Proactively identify opportunities to resolve finance defects and improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes across teams and organizations.
• Controllership:
• Own the financial reporting for a business area and may supervise or teach others in areas of financial reporting.
• Identify and solve complex data integrity issues and collaborate with stakeholders on resolution, insisting on the highest standards.
• Develop and execute data analysis processes that are scalable and auditable.
• Communication:
• Intuitively utilize active listening skills to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner, adjusting your style based on audience, to articulate complex finance issues.
• Create effective business partnerships with Site Leaders, manage competing priorities, and provide guidance during unexpected events.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Team Leadership:
• Seek out, value, and leverage diverse perspectives.
• Have backbone and challenge business partner plans and assumptions when needed.
• Positively contribute to work/life harmony on the team and find creative solutions to solve gaps for the team.

About the team

• This role will partner closely with a broad range of Senior Leaders in Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Procurement, Accounting, HR and Technology.
• This role plays a critical role as a financial advocate and business partner.
• This role will design, develop, and maintain performance measurements and reporting on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
• 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, or CPA
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
• 5+ 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
• Experience delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives/projects