FP&A Manager, Resin Manufacturing

About the role

Under the direction of the Global Finance Leader, Engineered Materials, the FP&A Manager, Resin Manufacturing will play a critical role in ensuring the financial planning aligns with and supports business objectives by providing actionable insights that drive rigorous and informed decision-making across the business unit with a focus on accountability, quality, timely results, and risk management. The position will collaborate closely with cross-functional and cross-regional teams, providing valuable recommendations to optimize profitability through productivity and sustainable growth initiatives. This role combines rigorous financial planning with hands-on business partnering and a collaborative mindset to deliver successful business performance outcomes with speed, accuracy, innovation, and proactive problem solving.

This is a hybrid role in Wayne, PA with one day per week in office.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the end-to-end business unit’s financial planning process for all 3 regions, including annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and analytics in support of the sales & operations planning cycle.
• Align the financial plans with the overall strategic initiatives and provide actionable insights.
• Partner with business and functional teams to understand internal and external factors impacting sales and profitability, formulate action plans, track achievements, and implement opportunities to grow business performance while ensuring forecast assumptions are timely and accurate.
• Drive the completion of actual and forecast income statements and working capital by region, ensuring data integrity and seamless integration into the reporting system.
• Lead monthly business reviews with regional business management teams, delivering insightful explanations for major variances between actual results, budget, and forecast to facilitate better decision-making and corrective action plans.
• Synthesize actual monthly results across dimensions such as volume, pricing, cost, variable margin, and fixed cost into comprehensive reports, developing recommendations for improving business performance.
• Spearhead the preparation and monitoring of business excellence and synergy initiatives, including new business development, new product innovation, commercial excellence, and business KPI dashboards.
• Drive continuous improvement in forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and analytical capabilities.
• Lead ad hoc project financial analysis and valuation to support strategic business initiatives and business development opportunities, providing valuable insights for decision-making.
• Ensure the integrity of historical financials and related profitability analysis by segment and customer, acting as both a steward and creator of value through business and finance strategies.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of monthly/quarterly results and deviations, driving business reviews and actionable strategies aimed at achieving financial objectives.
• Prepare concise management reports for ELT and BOD, providing clear insights for informed decision-making.
• Assist in value creation and capture approach, including financial baseline development, target setting, and project evaluation.
• Conduct functional performance evaluations, examining key performance metrics such as productivity, cost efficiency, and quality standards, leveraging benchmarking insights to achieve industry-leading performance.
• Identify challenges, variances, and opportunities for optimization to ensure alignment with financial and operational objectives.
• Support coordination and oversight of the Company’s annual long-term planning and budgeting processes, challenging assumptions, initiatives, and outputs.
• Define and improve FP&A processes, driving standardization, consolidation, and enhancements in financial systems support.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Finance, or Accounting (Master’s/MBA/CPA/CFA preferred).
• 7-10+ years of progressive experience in financial and business analysis and planning, as well as cost accounting.
• Financial Planning & Analysis experience in Manufacturing is required.
• Chemical/Specialty Materials industry experience preferred.
• Global, cross-functional partnership experience in developing financial strategies amongst multiple regions is preferred.
• Strong experience and proficiency in financial systems and tools (Data Warehouse, SAP, BI tools, advanced Excel).

Skills

• Expertise in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Attention to detail while understanding the big picture.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to recognize issues and proactively address them.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Financial accounting and business acumen.
• Ownership, accountability, people leadership, and relationship building.
• International management, economic evaluation, mergers & acquisitions knowledge.

About the company

Trinseo is a global materials company at the intersection of people, technology, and customers. We are a world leader in the production of plastics and latex binders. Our culture is built on passion and innovation, and we strive to create workplaces that reflect all communities and customers we serve, where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work. We are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience to drive us forward every day.