Financial Analyst

This is a great opportunity to join a growing company that is going through change. This critical Finance role is instrumental in our growth plans to establish and build a Financial Planning and Analysis and business partner infrastructure. The position is key in building a high performing team that influences and enables profitable, controlled, and sustainable growth, while demonstrating uncompromising integrity, respect, commitment to teamwork, and relentless drive to add value.

• Business partner to commercial, operational, and administrative functions to drive value creation
• Analyze the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow and report the results through management discussion and analysis documentation, and monthly meetings
• Prepare forecasts and annual budgets for the global organization
• Maintain KPI’s and business metrics weekly and monthly
• Identify problems and action improvement initiatives from start to completion
• Work with operating sites to find cost savings, efficiency improvements, and implement growth opportunities
• Build, analyze, and assess customer and product level profitability analysis to highlight and action margin improvement and growth strategies
• Assist with optimizing profitability and working capital while educating the business on understanding the financials and how to impact the financials with action
• Prepare Board of Directors, bank, and company communication presentations
• Prepare capital and investment decision analysis to evaluate the ROI and payback
• Involvement in merger and acquisition valuation, diligence, and integration
• Prepare and drive process improvement and efficiency initiatives in finance, including developing more effective ways to evaluate the business and results
• Establish data mining and automation techniques and systems that enable more efficient analysis
• Financial modeling of scenarios to make data driven decisions
• Involvement with the Oracle system implementation
• Prepare and review journal entries for month end close, including financial statement reviews and flux analysis
• Participate in special projects as assigned

• Bachelor’s and or master’s in finance or advanced degree, and 3-5 years’ experience in a Financial Planning and Analysis role
• Expertise or previous experience in manufacturing a plus
• Advanced Excel, Power BI or Tableau skills, to analyze and assess the health of the business and action financial results
• Project Management and People Management experience, comfortable with change and driving change
• Experience and desire to create, build, and grow an organization
• Positive, hardworking, analytical, strategic thinker, and business partner
• Ability to manage competing priorities and manage up, down, and across for greater focus and results
• Desire to get into the details and ability to present findings and recommendations
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced organization