Our client, a leading manufacturer of personal care products, is seeking a dynamic and driven Sr. FP&A Analyst to partner with and support finance leadership by managing reporting, financial planning, and analysis activities. This includes the monthly reporting package, forecast development and budgeting. This individual will develop tools and analytics that improve visibility into operations, customer, product, and SKU profitability and operational activities through KPIs, plant metrics. They will independently develop analyses, conclusions, and drive business decisions to key stakeholders with data.

Responsibilities

• Compile consolidated monthly financial analysis packages, performs overall variance analysis and price volume bridges on monthly financial results, as well as weekly facility flash reporting
• Collaborate with Finance & Accounting to ensure data integrity, gathers and analyzes data on cost inputs to use for pricing and other analyses.
• Develop complex financial models for consolidated reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and ad hoc analysis, supports strategic initiatives including pricing strategy
• Responsible for substantial amounts of reporting required for owners of the company and their lenders including covenant compliance, MD&A
• Analyze inventory trends and stats by facility and holding teams accountable for improving metrics
• Other various ad hoc analyses on results of the business, customer & product level analysis, and financial budgets/forecasts
• Independently analyze all facets of business including cash, liquidity, profitability, balance sheet metrics and makes recommendations to key stakeholders

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of financial analysis experience, particularly within a manufacturing environment
• Strong Excel skills; advanced experience working with large datasets
• Advanced financial analysis skills including the ability to build complex financial models including three statement cash flow, income statement, and balance sheet models
• Ability to tell the "how and why," the story of what’s happening in a business
• Experience using financial modules of ERP systems
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to clearly convey complex business processes and terminology to a wide range of audiences
• Experience working with business intelligence tools and developing reports using applications similar to PowerBI/Tableau