FP&A Manager, Latex Binders & Compounding

Description

• Drive the completion of actual and forecast income statements and working capital for the region, ensuring data integrity and seamless loading and integration into the reporting system.
• Develop and manage the NAM region’s end-to-end financial planning process, including annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and analytics in support of the sales & operations planning cycle. Align the financial plans with the overall strategic initiatives and provide actionable insights.
• Synthesize the region’s actual monthly results across various dimensions such as volume, pricing, cost, variable margin, and fixed cost in comprehensive reports, and developing recommendations for improving the business performance.
• Support ad hoc project financial analysis and valuation to support the region’s strategic business initiatives and business development opportunities, providing valuable insights for decision making processes.
• Extensively partner with the NAM business and functional teams to understand internal and external factors impacting sales and profitability, formulate action plans that address gaps and track its achievement, and implement opportunities to grow business performance, while ensuring forecast assumptions are timely populated with completeness and accuracy.
• Support the preparation and monitoring of business excellence and synergy initiatives, encompassing areas such a new business development, new product innovation, commercial excellence, and business KPI dashboards.
• Acting as both a steward of value and a creator of value by aligning the region’s business and finance strategy and managing financial performance through management reporting and business analytics.
• Drive continuous improvement in forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and analytical capabilities in concert with the data input and analysis.
• Drive the region’s monthly business reviews with the NAM business management teams, delivering insightful explanations for major variances between actual results, budget, and forecast, facilitating better decision-making processes and corrective action plans.
• Ensure the integrity of historical financials and related profitability analysis for the NAM region and customers, acting as both a steward and creator of value through business and finance strategies.

Requirements

• Excellent oral and written communication skills; expertise in Excel and PowerPoint; attention to detail; strong problem-solving skills with the ability to recognize issues and proactively address them
• Chemical industry experience preferred
• 7+ years of progressive experience in financial and business analysis and planning, as well as cost accounting.
• Attention to detail while understanding the big picture, financial accounting, business acumen, ownership and accountability, people leadership & building relationships, international management, economic evaluation, mergers & acquisitions, strong analytical ability.
• Bachelor’s in Business Management / Finance / Accounting (Masters/MBA/CPA/CFA preferred)
• Strong proficiency in financial systems and tools (SAP, BI tools, advanced Excel)

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance