IntePros Looking for Senior Finance Business Partner at Duluth, MN Full Time

130000

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Description

Job Summary

The Financial Analyst/Business Partner will partner with the client’s manufacturing operations leaders on key strategic projects. This position will collaborate with leadership to implement Key Performance Indicators, leveraging and improving upon existing metrics, and identifying business trends through related measurement and analysis. This position will also analyze historical spending trends, evaluate different scenarios and help the business team understand potential trade-offs. Additionally, providing the team with the tools they need to effectively forecast in the short- mid- and long-term will also be critical. This position is rife with opportunity to make an impact both at a direct financial level and indirectly through the influencing of processes and policy.

Duties And Responsibilities/Essential Functions

• Acts as lead finance business partner to product manufacturing operations leadership providing financial outlook and performance, actively participating in cross-functional meetings and presenting relevant reporting and documents to all levels of management
• Prepare, maintain and develop key insights resulting from KPIs generated in collaboration with manufacturing operations and finance leadership
• Participates in preparation of annual financials budgets and updated financial projections as needed to track performance and outlook of projects
• Prepares actual to budget/forecast variance analysis including identification of headcount, operating, outsourcing and expense savings opportunities, and provides actionable recommendations to manufacturing operations leadership as well as identification of potential risks, meanwhile encouraging accountability for achieving forecasted/plan results
• Perform sensitivity analysis around key assumptions to provide guidance around potential outcomes
• Engages in monthly reviews, providing financial insights to key drivers of change and ensuring results are well understood by decision makers
• Collaborates with manufacturing to make recommendations for scalable business solutions related to planning and budgeting
• Acts as liaison between business team and accounting department ensuring transactions are appropriately accounted for in the financials
• Performs ad hoc financial analysis as requested
• Informs, maintains, and validates reporting tools for manufacturing leadership analysis
• Working on multiple projects at a time, this role will focus on the details while simultaneously working to take on high level/big picture challenges

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in financial analysis
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
• Strong attention to detail
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, accounting principles knowledge, documentation skills, research and resolution skills, data analysis and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to prepare comprehensive financial forecasts and appropriately represent financial information
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to work in a cross-functional fast-paced environment and to drive operational initiatives
• Aptitude to take charge, set objectives, lead by influence and drive results

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Financial Acumen: Interprets and applies understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
• Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Builds Networks: Effectively builds formal and informal relationship networks.