Overview & ResponsibilitiesPURPOSE OF THE JOB: The role is that of a business partner to the Regional Directors providing commercial direction and business support in all aspects of Operations. To support and assist the Regional Directors in coordinating daily business operations such that daily and operational activities are aligned with Strategic goals and appropriate feedback loops exist to both monitor progress and prompt intervention as appropriate. The role will include the prioritization, preparation and delivery of a wide variety of financial and business analyses. These analyses will include recommendations for improvement, identification of problems, and investigations into anomalies in data. The analyses must include assessments, observations, recommendations and summaries to assist management in taking appropriate actions.
The job will include the direction, coordination, preparation and consolidation of bi-weekly outlooks, quarterly Forecasts, annual Plans and periodic strategic plans for the Product Line. In many situations the Financial Manager will represent the Regional Director at meetings and as such must understand the full strategic product direction and the detail of how it is being deployed and immediate priorities in that deployment. Needs leadership and internal selling skills to ensure projects are completed without the continual oversite of Regional Director Catalyst for action and reaction based on monitoring of regions' progress with ability to enact process improvement initiatives.
BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE:- Bachelor's in accounting.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully manage/lead and organize teams in a conflicting priority environment.
- Well-developed analytical and supervisory skills with the ability to interpret business situations and communicate ideas and concepts to varied audiences.
- Should have a minimum of ten years professional management experience.
- Must be familiar profit and loss concepts, working capital cash impacts and capital expenditure evaluations.
- A background and proven track record in leading impactful process improvement initiatives is required.
SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES / COMPETENCIES: - Develop and maintain financial models for the consolidation of the Regional biweekly outlooks, quarterly forecasts and annual financial and strategic plans.
- Analyzes, interprets and makes recommendations with regard to operating results compared to forecasts, financial plans and budgets.
- Analyzes, interprets and instigates intervention where appropriate during ongoing projects.
- Schedule and coordinate the regional forecasting process.
- Direct and coordinate the forecast and planning processes to ensure schedule due dates are achieved.
- Develops financial models for use in the analysis process.
- Reconcile and report weekly management key measures.
- Advise management of actual expenses and forecasts, trends and actions required.
- Advise controllership function on control lapses and requirements.
- Analyze fixed burden manufacturing expenses used in the make vs buy decisions to external vendors and Sode Guara manufacturing as well as internal capital projects.
- Participate and drive Leadership Team meetings to focus on actions required and trends to be addressed with data and personal relationship with other team members.
- Analyze actual results and report findings.
- Conduct various high level confidential projects reporting directly to the Regional Director.
- Capital Expenditure Administrator:
- Coordinate the entire Cap Ex function / process.
- Prepare and Review all Appropriation Request Authorization (ARA)
- Maintain and review Cap Ex Projects progress.
- Conduct ongoing Capital Steering Committee meetings.
