Job Title:

Senior Financial Analyst

Position Summary:

The business segment is a market leader in paper packaging products with commercial and manufacturing operations in the U.S. and Mexico. The Senior Financial Analyst plays a key role in financial reporting, analysis and an advisory role in the manufacturing business segment. This position reports to the Manager of Financial Analysis & Planning.

Essential Functions & Key Responsibilities:

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  This position will primarily provide financial analyses support to the manufacturing business teams.

  
  


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  Lead financial advisor to plant manager and site leadership teams at assigned manufacturing sites, the successful candidate is viewed as a critical business partner in driving the success of manufacturing operations.

  
  


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  Takes a lead role and actively participates in the development and execution of manufacturing operations strategies and goals.

  
  


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  Responsible for financial reporting, planning and analysis for assigned manufacturing sites on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis; FP&A responsibilities encompass both financial and operations-focused (production, quality, productivity) key performance indicators.

  
  


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  Prepare monthly financial and operational forecasts including variance analyses.

  
  


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  Critical to success is the ability to interpret financial performance results and translate them into operational improvements.

  
  


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  Proactively identifies and takes a leadership role in driving productivity and profit improvement opportunities within manufacturing and for the company.

  
  


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  Prepare high quality capital investment requests to support productivity, growth and maintenance programs.

  
  


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  Takes a lead role for assigned plants in creating annual operating plans (budget) and then develops metrics and analytics to ensure plant operations are achieving plan targets.

  
  


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  While this position does not have specific general ledger or cost accounting responsibilities during month-end close, it does have responsibility to monitor financial results and estimates during closing and identifies issues or errors to assist corporate accounting team resource

  
  


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  All positions within the finance team have a clear, uncompromising responsibility to ensure internal controls and business policies are followed.

  
  


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  This position has responsibility for multiple manufacturing locations and may require 15%-25% travel; the successful candidate must be willing to travel.