Role Purpose:
This individual will support a variety of recurring financial processes including monthly reporting variance analysis, and the forecasting process. Additionally, the Financial Analyst will be a key contributor to the Sub-Region team's processes, such as supporting the development of the annual operating plan and the strategic plan.
This role is responsible for ensuring consistency and transparency in financial reporting for multiple facilities as well as support and compliance with all internal controls. This role will collaborate with manufacturing sites in the development and application of best practices throughout the Sub-Region.
Responsibilities:
Analysis:
1. As part of the Finance team, the Financial Analyst will also be required to support special projects and ad hoc analyses as required.
2. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, think critically to navigate financial information systems and simplify information to create clear outputs to support decision-making.
3. Prepare and analyse various outputs for monthly reporting for the total company P&L, Spruce Pine Cluster
4. Perform analytical review of actual functional results versus budget, forecast, and prior year at varying levels of the organization and across different information systems to ensure accurate and actionable plant business decisions
Accounting & Costing:
5. Coordinate finance review for manufacturing variances, costing, general ledger accounting, performance metrics, inventory valuation and analysis, forecasting and budgeting. Deliver monthly financial results to Sub-Region Leadership team.
Support Controls:
6. Support the Director of Finance – NA and Business Services Manager on various ad hoc requests and special projects
7. Provide Sub-Region Finance support including reviewing and delivering monthly financial results, identification of areas needing corrective action, tracking of committed cost savings, and supporting corporate and regional projects as needed.
8. Identify and implement improvements across financial processes.
Forecasting:
9. Support the forecasting process, the annual budget and the strategic plan processes to consolidate functional results and present the final proposal to senior leadership.Ensure that budget & forecast processes are completed within the business timetable, and assist in driving accountability.
Reporting:
10. Coordinate and complete updates in financial systems (i.e. Tagetik, Power BI, SAP, etc.