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Are you ready to grow your career in an organization that prioritizes your professional development? If you’re passionate about process excellence and the idea of joining a team transforming itself to best-in-class technology and processes excites you, we want to hear from you!

The Finance Director for Supply Chain is a highly visible, senior-facing role that provides companywide support from a central position.

This role will report to the VP of Finance for Group Operations and serve as a dotted line business partner to the SVP of Supply Chain.

This is a particularly exciting opportunity because this position will be entrusted to creatively stand up next level reporting and analytics for our global supply chain operations.

A successful candidate must be adept at basic monthly financial management, multiyear strategic planning, and creating / maintaining insightful operational metrics.

Areas of focus will include leading a team of three in accurate accounting processes, budgeting / forecasting, opportunity analyses, and helping drive scale and efficiency to all elements of our global supply chain.

This is a true finance partnership role, and the selected individual must become a respected and trusted voice at the table with many senior leaders in both Group Operations and Finance.

What you will do here :

Finance Partnership :

• Lead a team of three accountants / analysts to collectively run an accurate and analytical finance function
• Pair closely with the SVP of Supply Chain and his direct reports, becoming a responsive, reliable, and trusted partner for strategic evaluations
• Proactively align with finance leaders in other business units to share supply chain costs, create / distribute reporting, and serve as a point of expertise for their questions
• Partner with BU finance leaders to obtain plans for print sales and package / disseminate for supply chain planning
• Earn the trust of your partners through superior integrity, effort, and performance quality
• Raise concerns as necessary, but also creatively work to solution
• Stay closely connected to partners and identify financial impacts of evolving operational plans

Monthly Financial Management :

• Maintain a regimented month end accounting process with disciplined accruals, reclasses, journal entries, and reporting
• Prepare journal entries and accruals so that monthly financials accurately depict performance
• Institute a system of checks and balances so that errors can quickly be self-diagnosed in the same period
• Following close, evaluate performance and identify drivers of budget / forecast variances
• Complete all corporate reporting requests in a timely fashion with thoughtful and useful commentary
• Create and distribute monthly reporting on financial measures, operational measures, and insights garnered from the relationship between each
• Find opportunities for continuous improvement, and carve efficiencies into your processes

Strategic Planning :

• Maintain rolling multiyear financial forecasts and hold a constant understanding of financial health, risks, opportunities, and levers
• Prepare realistic budgets and forecasts, and thoughtfully convey the story behind the numbers
• Use a bottoms up approach to planning while shepherding business partners to spend profiles in line with financial targets
• Insightfully prepare bridges that distill noise into key drivers
• Prepare and present documents that honestly and impactfully support the objectives of your business partners
• Create next level metrics for unit cost tracking / reporting to provide deeper insights into our production / distribution costs
• Create opportunity analyses that comprehensively include impacts of all known elements and creatively account for unknown elements

Skills you will need here :

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in financial planning and analysis or similar finance-related role
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience leading an impactful team
• Strong accounting background with understanding of GAAP and compliance standards
• Past experience with supply chain operations is a plus
• Excellent working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent interpersonal and organization skills with an ability to handle multiple activities, prioritize and manage workload, and perform multiple tasks simultaneously
• Strong verbal and written communications
• Strong analytical and modeling skills
• Comfortability and confidence interacting with and presenting to senior leadership
• Self-starter who takes initiative; confident under pressure and able to consistently meet deadlines