Associate, Finance Business Partner

Newell Brands • Atlanta, GA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Newell Brands is seeking a Financial Analyst to support our Outdoor & Recreation brands (Coleman®, Contigo®, and Marmot®). The Financial Analyst works cross-functionally with Brand Management, Customer Strategy & Planning and Sales teams on innovation, activation, and commercialization activities to drive profitable growth. The role is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Outdoor & Recreation is an omni-channel business that competes across diverse product categories including active lifestyle products for outdoor activities, technical apparel, and on-the-go beverageware. These products are sold through various go-to-market channels including mass merchandisers, eCommerce, wholesale clubs, outdoor specialists, and owned direct-to-consumer sites. This position will report to the Senior Finance Manager of Technical Apparel and provide critical finance and commercial support to the business. This will include supporting and analyzing brand P&Ls; innovation support; working capital management; planning & forecasting; advertising & promotion effectiveness; and pricing and gross margin optimization analysis. This person will primarily support the Brand Management team but will also have input into decisions with our go-to-market channel strategy, helping the organization make profitable, fact-based decisions.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in finance, accounting, or a related field of study.
• 0-3 years of relevant experience preferably in consumer-packaged goods (CPG).
• Strong analytical skills and working knowledge of project valuation and volume/price/mix analysis.
• Strong interpersonal skills, both written and verbal communication.
• Ability to operate with a consumer-focused mindset to partner and collaborate achieving a common goal with cross functional business partners.
• Results driven behavior acting with sense of urgency and with the ability to recommend and make decisions quickly.
• Experience with Hyperion (HFM), SAP and Power BI.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to work with a high degree of autonomy.
• Advanced Excel skills, highly analytical and detail oriented.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes financial results by providing explanations on key P&L drivers for the period vs. forecast, budget and prior year including customer and product volume/mix, trade spend and advertising and promotions.
• Supports the preparation of monthly forecasts and annual budgets, working closely with Brand Management, Customer Planning & Strategy and Sales
• Analyzes proposed advertising, promotional spend and other activation investments with pre- and post-activity ROI analytics to help inform current and future decisions.
• Supports commercialization and go-to-market analysis.
• Partners with cross-functional teams to monitor the brand/category marketplace including Newell POS performance, market share, and category growth trends.
• Supports the New Product Development process, including developing forecasts, preparing financials, calculating project return metrics, analyze changes vs. previous updates.
• Optimizes gross margin based upon pricing, mix management, cost improvement and innovation.
• Liaise with Operations Finance to summarize impacts of standard costs and manufacturing variances for historical, current, and future key material costs.
• Manages and optimizing working capital including inventory.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level