Strategic Performance Analysis & Insight Generation
- Leverage deep knowledge of global strategy and financial objectives to evaluate performance, forecasts, and plans, ensuring financial results align with organizational priorities.
- Conduct root-cause analyses to explain not only what changed in financial performance but why; identify drivers across revenue, margin, operating expenses, and commercial metrics. Design, build, and continuously enhance data models, dashboards, and visualizations (e.g., Power BI) to enable self-service insights, faster decisions, and greater transparency.
- Analyze financial results and performance trends, clearly communicating key variances and underlying drivers to stakeholders.
- Assess historical profitability and commercial performance by market, channel, customer segment, and product portfolio, and recommend optimization actions.
- Deliver proactive, data-driven financial insights and recommendations that guide senior leadership’s strategic and operational decisions.
- Distill complex financial analyses into concise recommendations, highlighting risks, opportunities, and actionable next steps.
Forecasting, Planning & Close Support
- Lead end-to-end forecasting for assigned business units—producing revenue, margin, and expense projections—and perform data-driven variance analysis to boost forecast accuracy and deliver actionable insights, leveraging automated data-integration and reporting tools.
- Drive monthly and quarterly close cycles, supplying timely financial analysis, forecast updates, and key management metrics with exceptional accuracy.
Commercial Programs & Incentive Analysis
- Evaluate sales-incentive compensation programs to measure effectiveness, financial impact, and alignment with business objectives.
- Pinpoint and execute process-improvement and automation initiatives that streamline financial workflows, strengthen data integration, and upgrade reporting.
- Design and deploy solutions with Power Query, Power Automate, advanced Excel, and emerging AI technologies to cut manual effort, raise accuracy, and accelerate insight generation.
- Modernize FP&A by introducing new tools, broadening data accessibility, and continuously enhancing dashboards and analytics to boost efficiency, scalability, and decision quality.
Collaboration & Projects
- Act as a support to other Finance team members sharing best practices and guidance, as relevant.
- Leads or supports projects or workstreams that require coordination across stakeholders.
Data Integrity & Executive Reporting
- Safeguard data integrity by reconciling and validating financial information in partnership with Accounting and Operations; apply expertise in management (internal, business-line) vs. statutory (external, compliance) reporting and in standard costing within a manufacturing environment.
- Develop and deliver insightful financial analyses and presentation materials for executive leadership, board meetings, and external stakeholders.
