Financial Analyst - Fragrance & Beauty - North America

Givaudan SA•East Hanover, NJ

About The Position

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.Givaudan Fragrances Corporation seeks a Financial Analyst - Fragrance & Beauty - North America toanalyze financial and operational performance of company’s North America Fragrance and Beauty sector.Provide financial analysis for business unit-related investments and advise regional management on decisionsrelated to investments, expenses, account assignments, headcount, and resource allocation. Conduct financialanalysis and investigate variances, report discrepancies, and highlight issues. Ensure alignment with financialand operational goals. Prepare sales and operating expense forecasts for assigned business units and accounts.Prepare monthly reporting package containing Sales, Margin, Opex analysis, headcount, and overall businessperformance. Support budgeting, forecasting, and strategic account planning. Collaborate with regional andglobal teams to meet performance objectives, supports strategic initiatives, and partners with the PricingDepartment on negotiations to evaluate financial impacts and develop strategic approaches. Drive businessintelligence metrics, KPIs, and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring robust performance reporting forboth Consumer Products and Fine Fragrance divisions. Ensure data integrity and consistency with systemsrequirements. Contribute to capital expenditure projects, support the development of regional commercialstrategies, and contribute to the execution of the region’s 5-year business plan and annual operating budgets.Drive the sales, capital expenditure, and expense budget process across the entire region. Communicate monthlyreporting packages, including sales, margin, operating expenses (Opex) analysis, headcount, and overallbusiness performance, ensuring accuracy and compliance with corporate guidelines. May manage employees.15% of domestic and international travel.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, International Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field, or foreign degree equivalent, and 5 years of relevant experience as a Business Analyst, or alternate acceptable related occupation.
Performing interpretive and predictive data analysis in the Fragrance & Beauty international marketplace to identify key risks and opportunities for enhanced profitability.
Utilizing systems such as SAP, IBIS, PCDM, Tableau, and Power BI Analytics.
Collaborating with global accounts to build financial plans, including annual sales and operational expense budgets.
Financial performance reporting, including analysis of sales, margins, OPEX, headcount, and overall performance metrics.
Implementing continuous improvement initiatives by evolving, streamlining, and automating processes.
Preparing and communicating sales forecasts with business leaders and budget owners for visibility on performance and spend.
Interpreting data and performing financial analysis for business unit-related investments.
Performing ad-hoc and pro-active analysis to support a commercial organization.

Responsibilities

Analyze financial and operational performance of company’s North America Fragrance and Beauty sector.
Provide financial analysis for business unit-related investments and advise regional management on decisions related to investments, expenses, account assignments, headcount, and resource allocation.
Conduct financial analysis and investigate variances, report discrepancies, and highlight issues.
Ensure alignment with financial and operational goals.
Prepare sales and operating expense forecasts for assigned business units and accounts.
Prepare monthly reporting package containing Sales, Margin, Opex analysis, headcount, and overall business performance.
Support budgeting, forecasting, and strategic account planning.
Collaborate with regional and global teams to meet performance objectives, supports strategic initiatives, and partners with the Pricing Department on negotiations to evaluate financial impacts and develop strategic approaches.
Drive business intelligence metrics, KPIs, and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring robust performance reporting for both Consumer Products and Fine Fragrance divisions.
Ensure data integrity and consistency with systems requirements.
Contribute to capital expenditure projects, support the development of regional commercial strategies, and contribute to the execution of the region’s 5-year business plan and annual operating budgets.
Drive the sales, capital expenditure, and expense budget process across the entire region.
Communicate monthly reporting packages, including sales, margin, operating expenses (Opex) analysis, headcount, and overall business performance, ensuring accuracy and compliance with corporate guidelines.
May manage employees.