Senior Financial Analyst - Business Planning & Analysis - Marmot

Company: Newell Brands
Location: Rohnert Park
Posted on: May 12, 2022

Job Description:

Position title: Senior Financial Analyst- Business Planning & Analysis (BP&A), Technical Apparel

Location: Rohnert Park, CA

Reports to: Sr Manager Finance BP&A - Technical Apparel

The Senior Financial Analyst- Business Planning & Analysis (BP&A) will join the Technical Apparel vertical supporting Marmot and ExOfficio brands. Your primary responsibility is to assist the Sr Manager of Finance with reporting and planning. - -You will work collaboratively with business partners across the organization to drive decisions aimed at maximizing sales and profitability. - This position will play a critical role in building a financial plan to promote accelerated growth. -

Responsibilities:

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• Manage commercial finance budgets and reforecasts, highlighting areas of risk and ensuring the business partners have the information they need to manage their budgets and make effective and timely decisions.
  
• Manage the month end close process, including coordination with Functional teams on accruals/expenses. -
  
• Prepare management reports, analyzing current and past trends providing analysis of the key areas, risks and opportunities, and assisting management in developing action plans.
  
• Own forecasting, leverage the forecast and current/historical key metrics to create timely trend analysis, identify business shifts, areas of risk and opportunities for executive team.
  
• Own monthly rolling forecast consolidations and reporting, drive timeline with cross-functional partners.
  
• Leverage various financial tools to improvement forecasts and KPIs, to drive efficiencies and deliver added insights to the business
  
• Partner with manager to redesign and streamline existing tools and processes to support an integrated view of the organization.
  
• Liaison with other department managers and accounting personnel to answer financial reporting questions and/or accounting changes.
  
• Assist other FP&A team members with analysis, presentations and KPI reporting.
  
• Provide ad-hoc support to broader Finance team as needed
  
  Qualifications
  
  
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  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics.
    
  • 5 to 7 years of experience in a financial planning, forecasting and analysis experience required.
    
  • Strategic and analytical thought partner with strong financial acumen and high proficiency in financial/analytical modeling and forecasting.
    
  • Proven ability to work with large volumes of data and shift focus as needed from granular data mining to recapping findings at an executive level.
    
  • Practical knowledge of all functions of the business.
    
  • High degree of proficiency in working with complicated MS Excel models, pivot tables and Power BI.
    
  • Experience with SAP, BW, Hyperion and a collaborative cloud-based environment (e.g. Share Point) preferred.
    
  • Team player with a positive attitude and ability to develop effective and influential business relationships at all levels.
    
  • Ability to cultivate a positive, collaborative and supportive work environment.
    
  • Able to manage to switch gears as needed and manage deadlines, be flexible while driving to timely resolution.
    
  • Experience in Apparel or Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) environment preferred.
    
    
    Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Paper Mate, Sharpie, Dymo, EXPO, Parker, Elmers, Coleman, Marmot, Oster, Sunbeam, FoodSaver, Mr. Coffee, Graco, Baby Jogger, NUK, Calphalon, Rubbermaid, Contigo, First Alert, and Yankee Candle. For hundreds of millions of consumers, Newell Brands makes life better every day, where they live, learn, work and play. Newell Brands and its subsidiaries are Equal OpportunityEmployers and comply with applicable employment laws. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled are encouraged to apply.

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