Financial Analyst

Responsibilities: Candidate will be a self-starter with the ability to work independently and with a team. Candidate will have excellent analytical and communication skills and the ability to multi-task and handle tight deadlines. Primary Accountabilities:

• Work with the Vertical Business unit to prepare, analyze, and validate the monthly forecast, including providing commentary and variance analysis.
• Assist in the preparation and communication of monthly/quarterly reporting requirements, including variance commentary to the President of the vertical Business units.
• Work with the Vertical Business unit to prepare the annual operating plan.
• Analyze and report out to the commercial and operations teams around Price/Volume/Mix.
• Analyze, report, maintain, and drive improvement in actual SKU profitability reporting; develop annual budgeted SKU profitability analysis.
• Create meaningful and insightful ad hoc and recurring monthly reports
• Provide financial support to the Vertical President, Director of Operations, and Finance Managers for the vertical to which they are assigned (forecast, budget, etc.)
• Perform special project assignments.
• Serve as SAP/BI and HFM super-user.

Qualifications: Competencies:

• Thoughtful – able to identify many variables and learn to understand their relationships, how the variables work together and anticipate/model future
• Analytical – able to identify and quantify variables, drill down, isolate, understand and effectively explain deviations to expected performance taking into account performance of all variables in aggregate
• Creative – ability to think differently about a problem, articulate thought and influence the group to take a different approach
• Team player, ability to work with various members of the organization
• Strong Excel, SAP, and Hyperion Financial Management skills
• Ability to maintain a consistently high level of attention to detail
• Working knowledge of manufacturing controls and cost accounting/general accounting
• Ability to ensure that yours as well as others’ work and information are complete and accurate
• Ability to utilize available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance preferred, MBA a plus.
• CPA or CMA certification a plus.
• A minimum of 5 years accounting experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Highly proficient in MS Office software (Word, Excel, Access and Outlook) as well as SAP Business Intelligence and Hyperion/HFM.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and data-manipulation skills.
• Effective communication skills – both interpersonal and written.