Georgia-Pacific Hiring for Manager, Financial Analysis Job at Atlanta, GA Full Time

Description
Georgia-Pacific’s Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (“SS&P”) organization is responsible for the strategic category management, sourcing and procuring the critical supplies and materials that support more than 140 locations across the US. The SS&P organization is currently undergoing an exciting transformation where we are partnering with our business and manufacturing partners, and leveraging best practices to build internal capabilities that uniquely position the team to improve how we make key decisions impacting our P&L to drive long-term value for the company. This effort is a critical element in Georgia-Pacific’s continuous transformation. It is an exciting time to be part of a growing team and at the center of the transformation to help mold the future state of the SS&P organization!
The Manager of Financial Analysis will be an individual contributor role that sits within the strategic sourcing finance team, which measures, tracks, and analyzes the SS&P organization’s P&L results. This role will specifically focus on key categories or initiatives that are underperforming relative to plan. The individual will partner with Sourcing Category Leaders and other key stakeholders to perform a deep dive analysis on key drivers of the underperformance and actions needed to resolve those gaps. Individuals will need to be able to apply analytics and strong economic thinking to identify performance gaps, determine the root cause and clearly communicate insights to SS&P leadership and other key stakeholders. Within this role, you will have the opportunity to influence the key priorities within SS&P by providing clear and actionable insights on what steps need to be taken to materially improve performance across our spend categories.
What You Will Do In Your Role

• Review overall financial performance and prioritize categories / initiatives to perform deep-dives on for root-cause analyses in collaboration with SS&P leadership
• Structure ambiguous problems and take charge of identifying information sources, gathering and interpreting data, executing analysis, and presenting findings to SS&P leaders and stakeholders
• Partner with category leaders to develop an action plan to resolve gaps based on your analysis and influence stakeholders / organization to act
• Coach the category teams on key items or metrics to watch for to ensure their performance is on track moving forward
• Lead cross-functional teams as necessary (including IT, Finance, Sourcing, Operations, P&L Owners, and Strategy) to get relevant information, implement new tracking tools, models, and updates to the impact tracking knowledge process
• Prepare materials and update the SS&P leadership team on insights and proposed action items

The Experience You Will Bring
Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, business analytics, supply chain, engineering, finance, or other discipline that requires quantitative knowledge
• 3+ years work experience in data analytics, finance, engineering or other analytical role
• Advanced analytical capabilities and experience analyzing large data sets in MS Excel, Qlik, Power BI, etc.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in sourcing and procurement
• Previous experience leading a technical team and/or leveraging root cause problem solving techniques

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength – focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes – medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
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Job Type: Full-time