Senior Manager of Finance Strategy

Company Description

Job Description

Support Distribution and Manufacturing by providing broad and deep business insight, complex financial analysis and business unit/market perspective.

• Provide senior-level recommendations around overall franchise financial performance, strategic initiatives, commercial strategy, and resource deployment to business unit leadership

• Manage strategic and operational financial plan iterations, providing both franchise level input, consolidation and submission as well as provide insight and commentary around variations in support of divisional and group level management review

• Identify and drive appropriate performance metrics to improve operating results and minimize variation to strategic plans

• Drive accountability and accuracy within the business unit to all financial planning processes (business development, product launch, strategic plan, annual budget, and current year projections)

• Support all business unit objectives and initiatives with financial insight, analysis, and governance

• Lead and manage a team of financial professionals, including selection/hiring, objective-setting, performance management, compensation management, discipline, coaching/development, training and termination.
• Provide financial guidance and assistance to the assigned business unit.
• Prepare business plans, including annual operating plans, periodic forecasts, strategic plans, and product introduction financial plans.
• Create and translate operating plans and forecasts into financial plans and projections to ensure that the organization achieves its financial targets; recommend corrective action as needed.
• Prepare price-volume analyses to identify market trends and profitability impacts of market place factors.
• Provide timely explanations of variances between actual results and forecasts/budgets; provide corrective action where necessary.
• Develop, monitor and implement financial and inventory objectives
• Prepare the P&L and communicate actual vs. budgeted to management.
• Generate and oversee the development of financial models and reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance; MBA and/or CPA preferred.

• 8+ years’ work experience in a financial environment; combination of both public and private accounting experience preferred

• At least 3 years’ experience in a managerial role

• Advanced applied knowledge of inventory management

• Cognos and Hyperion

• Progressive career experience with few job moves

• Current experience with inventory management

Additional Information

$155K plus bonus