Sr. Finance Manager; FP&A
Summary:
As Senior Manager, FP&A – Depots, you will support the decision-making process by providing financial information, deep-dive analysis, performance management and financial planning. This is an exciting opportunity to partner with key stakeholders to start up a new product line, Depots, in NAM Warehousing & Distribution. You will develop financial processes that will set the operation up for success and then manage the business as it grows to ensure it is profitable.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the ongoing forecasting and annual budgeting process for the full P&L of the profit centers under your scope.
- Analyze actual results and provide variance analysis for leadership teams as well as recommending action plans.
- Drive the monthly close process in collaboration with accounting to ensure the accuracy of financial results.
- Lead periodic business reviews with operations and product management teams.
- Own scoping, stakeholder engagement, and approval of new investment proposals in North America for their Depot portfolio of products.
- Collaborating with corporate, regional, and local functions such as operations, IT, safety, FP&A and the investment committee to drive the investment process.
- Preparing documentation, investment write-up and financial modeling of investment proposals.
- Analyzing the strategy, operational effectiveness, commercial viability, risks and opportunities of investments.
- Provide support for ongoing customer pricing opportunities.
- Understanding and clearly articulating the present and future state of the Business to enable data-based decision making.
- Being accountable for timely, high quality and fit-for-purpose financial reporting and analysis to key stakeholders.
- Possible analyst direct report.
- Prepare ad-hoc analysis as required.
Qualifications:
- BA or BS (MBA a plus) with at least 5-10 years in a similar FP&A role with business partnering experience.
- The ideal candidate for the role will have a strong background in high-impact finance roles, with a proven track record of driving business results through financial insights.
- You have a thorough understanding of finance and a sincere interest in working with the business to drive performance and generate value.
- We expect you to have an 'analytic mindset' - being able to zoom in on the relevant details, while never losing sight of the big picture.
- You are a relationship-oriented team player with strong communication skills, enabling you to engage and influence multiple stakeholders.
- Logistics Industry experience a huge plus.
Skills:
- Have deep understanding of financial modeling techniques and metrics, such as ROI calculations, internal rate of return, NPV and payback periods.
- Strong Excel skills and extensive experience in using business intelligence platforms.
- Experience with Netsuite and Anaplan a plus.
- You have excellent analytical skills.