Senior Financial Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies employing over 5,000 team members. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations.

About the role

As a member of the Enterprise Central Finance team, this role is responsible for transactional and analytical support for general accounting and financial reporting processes, including enterprise-wide analytics and process automation projects by designing, developing, and maintaining solutions to improve business processes and financial analysis. This role also participates in business process internal audit reviews across the organization, as needed.

Responsibilities

• Supports the Enterprise Finance team on group’s internal and external financial analyses, including elimination and consolidation of financial statements, preparation of monthly and quarterly management reporting, preparation of external compliance statements (bank), regulatory and compliance reports (US census, tax planning, etc.).
• Responsible for the preparation, coordination and documentation of financial analysis projects, such as financial and expense performance, rate of return, depreciation, and working capital.
• Provides analysis for forward-looking financial and business-related projects. Prepares budgets/forecasts and analysis of trends in manufacturing, sales, finance, general business conditions, and other related areas.
• Provides financial support and analytics to a wide range of individuals and departments throughout the organization.
• Identifies and develops analytics and automation opportunities for Finance and other First Quality business processes.
• Under the direction of the Senior Director, Strategic Finance, participates in end-to-end and/or targeted process and control reviews. Conducts process walkthroughs, documents process narratives and flow charts, and evaluates control and process design. Creates and/or executes control testing procedures and documents work performed in accordance with the Department's standards.
• May assume a team lead role for a work group.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or similar.
• CPA is a plus.
• Typically requires 3+ years of related experience.
• Experience in internal audit, internal controls, process improvement and/or alike, involving strong end-to-end process understanding and evaluation.
• Business analysis and project management experience.
• Demonstrated experience in driving process improvement and automation.
• Experience with RPA and other automation tools, preferred.
• Analytics driven and tech savvy.
• Experience working independently and leading complex projects.
• Strong prioritization and project management skills, including timely and proactive communication of timelines and status.
• Continuous process improvement mindset.
• Intellectual curiosity to help get to the best solutions.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience in ERP systems such as SAP.
• Knowledge of US GAAP basic principles and elements of internal controls.
• Understanding of manufacturing accounting environment.

Pay

Estimated annual base salary range for this position is $90,000 - $100,000. Base pay is only part of our total compensation package, which also includes an attractive annual discretionary bonus.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities.
• Paid time off (three-week minimum).
• Medical, dental, and vision starting day one.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2,500).
• Bundle of joy benefit (years’ worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby).
• Tuition assistance.
• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums.