Job Overview
This position will be the lead financial support for the Transportation and Warehousing teams. Financial duties include influencing business decisions that drive customer adoption, revenue, and profitability. The Senior Financial Analyst, Supply Chain FP&A will perform financial planning and analysis; automating and/or building complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance, develop short and long range financial/operational forecasts, standardize and automate financial reports and work on ad hoc financial analysis and projects. The successful candidate will implement and drive the core financial processes for the business including annual operating plans/forecasts, P&Ls, monthly/quarterly business reviews, identifying and quantifying financial/operational risks and opportunities to the business, and driving ad-hoc business projects. Additional duties include Consolidation and Reporting.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- In depth monthly analysis/forecast to drive key financial metrics and foster an environment of continuous optimization
- Work with FP&A team and independently across the company to provide analysis and insight to key stakeholders, including company leadership, in core processes as well as on a project basis including profit opportunities
- Support FP&A Senior Manager/Director in future and post analysis in business decision making for business partners
- Provide analytical support to the procurement & purchasing teams including rate / volume analysis, financial impacts of decisions and recommendations on areas of improvement
- Closely tied to Costing and Supply Chain Finance, determining impact of COGS changes on future pricing to attain optimal pricing
- Support Sales in pricing for customer bids
- Drive internal process improvements and controls; continually identify opportunities for automation to allow the team to perform world-class analytics
- Responsible for driving and supporting financial close activities, ensuring that all margin and expense items are booked correctly to the GL and that risk has been assessed, presented and mitigated
- Create models, analysis and presentations that condense complex topics into actionable information
- Work with inventory control management and logistics team with financial analysis and finance support
- Analyze business results on a monthly and quarterly basis to better understand present and future financial performance in order to achieve or exceed profit targets
- Prepare reports and analysis in areas such as budgets, forecasts, financial plans, month-end reports, pricing, product line profitability, new product, SG&A, and inventory.
- Assist the Senior Manage