Sr. Financial Analyst

General Summary

The Sr. Marketing Financial Analyst supports new product development costing, analyzes actual versus planned product results, identifies cost management opportunities, prepares ROI financials for capital requests, and assists with ad hoc requests from Marketing and leadership.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Guides the new product team in meeting plan hurdles and margin requirements.
• Represents Finance on cross-functional teams supporting new product development, manufacturing, and sales initiatives.
• Prepares ad hoc analyses, projections, reports, and presentations in response to business unit requests.
• Tracks and analyzes key financial results for assigned business units, including trade spend, standard cost, labor cost, capital spend, product cost, and P&L performance.
• Creates and analyzes monthly, quarterly, and annual reports to communicate financial results to business leaders effectively and in a timely manner.
• Supports General Ledger close activities to ensure financial information is accurate, timely, and compliant with GAAP.
• Research and prepares variance analyses and explanations for Platform Marketing.
• Identifies and calculates savings from cost management opportunities.

Job Specifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with emphasis in Accounting or Finance (Master’s Degree or CPA is a plus).
• Minimum 4 years of finance experience.
• Must possess excellent analytical skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must have knowledge of a variety of computer software applications in word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentation software (SAP, MS Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint).
• Basic knowledge of accounting practices and procedures and internal controls.

Physical Conditions

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk and hear; use hands and fingers to operate, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

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