Overview (Scope of Role)

Under the direction of the Global Finance Leader, Engineered Materials, the FP&A Manager, Surfaces will play a critical role in ensuring the financial planning aligns with and supports business objectives by providing actionable insights that drive rigorous and informed decision-making across the business unit with a focus on accountability, quality, timely results, and risk management.

The position will collaborate closely with cross-functional and cross-regional teams, providing valuable recommendations to optimize profitability through productivity and sustainable growth initiatives. This position combines rigorous financial planning with hands-on business partnering and a collaborative mindset throughout the business unit to deliver successful business performance outcomes with speed, accuracy, innovation, and proactive problem solving. As an FP&A Manager:

• Develop and manage the end-to-end business unit's financial planning process for all 3 regions, 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.
• Extensively partner with the 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
• Drive the completion of actual and forecast income statements and working capital by region, ensuring data integrity and seamless loading and integration into the reporting system.
• Drive monthly business reviews with the regional business management teams, delivering insightful explanations for major variances between actual results, budget, and forecast, facilitating better decision-making processes and corrective action plans.
• Synthesize actual monthly results across various dimensions as such volume, pricing, cost, variable margin, and fixed cost in comprehensive reports, and developing recommendations for improving business performance.
• Spearhead 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
• Drive continuous improvement in forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and analytical capabilities in concert with the data input and analysis.
• Lead ad hoc project financial analysis and valuation to support strategic business initiatives and business development opportunities, providing valuable insights for decision making processes.
• Ensure the integrity of historical financials and related profitability analysis by segment and customer, acting as both a steward and creator of value through business and finance strategies.
• Acting as both a steward of value and a creator of value by aligning business and finance strategy by managing financial performance through management reporting and business analytics.

Responsibilities

Monthly/Quarterly Performance Analysis and Reporting

• Conduct in-depth analysis of monthly results and deviations, driving business reviews with the business management team, and actionable strategies aimed at achieving financial objectives
• Ensure financial reporting and related controls; supporting the preparation of segment financial filings and external communications.
• Prepare concise management reports for ELT and BOD, providing clear insights for informed decision making

Strategic Project Value Creation / Capture

• Assist in value creation and capture approach, including financial baseline development, target setting, project evaluation.

Functional management / Business Excellence

• Conduct functional performance evaluations, examining key performance metrics such as productivity, cost efficiency, and quality standards, leveraging benchmarking insights to achieve industry-leading performance standards.
• Identify challenges, variances, and opportunities for optimization to ensure alignment with financial and operational objectives.

Annual Budget and Long-Term Planning process

• Support coordination and oversight of the Company's annual long-term planning and budgeting processes, challenging assumptions, initiatives and outputs, coordinate schedule and format/content of deliverables, prepare communications and related management reporting for ELT and BOD.

Business FP&A processes

• Define and improve FP&A processes, driving standardization, consolidation, and enhancements in financial systems support

Qualifications

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

Equity And Inclusion

With our expanding global presence, cross-cultural insight and competence are essential for our ongoing success. We believe that a diverse workforce contributes different perspectives and creative ideas that enable us to continue to improve every day. Race, gender, ethnicity, country of origin, age, personal style, sexual orientation, physical ability, religion, life experiences and many more factors contribute to this diversity.

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