Senior Manager, Commercial Finance Americas

The Role

You will lead the financial reporting, analysis and planning activities for the Americas region and partner mainly with business director and his/her team, supply chain, R&D and procurement organizations to deliver profitable growth.

Your key responsibilities will include providing financial analysis to support business decisions and performance monitoring, guidance related to sales pricing and margin, and insights on markets.

About the Organization

We are Everywhere. Everywhere you look, you’ll find products enabled by Bakelite, from stronger homes to safer automobiles and everywhere in between. With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world’s most challenging demands.

What You'll Be Doing

• Reporting and Analysis
• Provide reporting for key performance indicators including volume and margin results, pricing actions, targets and opportunities and other strategic initiatives supporting margin performance.
• Create and manage effective financial metrics to provide insights to management to support decision making.
• Create ad-hoc analysis to anticipate any scenarios impacting the performance of the business.
• Budget and Forecasting
• Manage financial budget cycles including processes, tools, timeline, and analytics for developing annual targets.
• Develop monthly volume and margin forecasts that drive visibility into near term and annual business performance.
• Prepare 5 year growth plan, including modeling for organic and inorganic (acquisition) growth.
• Financial Systems and Data
• Leverage systems and data integrity processes to deliver financial information to users with accuracy to drive business decision making.
• Identify and implement business process changes and/or systems enhancements to improve data capture and support continuous improvement processes.
• Accounting and Controls
• Perform month end closing procedures to deliver accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Manage regional product costing processes to maintain accurate cost data on all purchased and manufactured products.
• Support external audit requests on validation of financial statements.
• Maintain and implement controls to prevent control weaknesses and improve financial transparency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Accounting or Finance.
• MBA in Accounting/Finance/Analytics preferred.
• 7+ years’ experience in financial reporting, including management reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
• Strong understanding of cost accounting within a manufacturing environment. Chemical manufacturing background a plus.
• Strong, established financial analysis skills and problem-solving ability.
• Excellent Analytical skills, ability to read and translate data into information.
• Self-starter with ability to complete projects start-to-finish.
• Must be trustworthy with confidential information.
• Strong communication skills; must be able to work effectively with peers and all levels of Company management.
• Team player with ability to interact effectively with cross functional teams.
• Proactive and well organized.
• Consistently meet deadlines in a dynamic work environment.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel modeling capabilities.
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP a plus) and CPM (OneStream a plus).

Benefits

We offer competitive compensation, robust benefits and support our associates every step of their career.

Company Information

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