Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Original Composites and Fibers•Toledo, OH

About The Position

The Financial Planning and Analysis ("FP&A") Analyst provides analytical support and leadership to the OCF FP&A team and the OCF business leadership. The FP&A Analyst gathers, analyzes, prepares and summarizes recommendations for strategic and operating plans as well as near-term financial forecasts. This individual will be responsible for assisting with the consolidation and reporting of financials of the business including the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.

Requirements

5-7 years of experience in business or corporate finance with broad mix of assignments and experience across many functional areas.
Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field required.
Demonstrates strong analytical skills working a corporate multi-national environment.
Demonstrates an ability to identify associations between seemingly independent events to recognize trends in financial forecasts, problems before they arise and possible cause-effect relationships.
Demonstrates strong ability to accumulate, organize and manipulate quantitative data to identify and explain trends, problems and their causes. Compare, contrast and combine information to determine underlying issues.
Strong superlative communication (written/verbal) skills to work with colleagues across various geographies, including logically structuring and delivering presentations.
Demonstrates strong ability to organize, deliberate, and reliable in structuring work, and effective problem solver.
Demonstrated some experience in working on cross-functional and multi-department enterprise-wide projects.

Nice To Haves

Experience in multi-national, manufacturing corporation
CPA and/or MBA highly desirable
Strong expertise in Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint
Knowledge of SAP, BI and Workiva

Responsibilities

Live the Safety standard, adhere to the safety responsibilities.
Adhere to OCF safety policies and personal safety action plan at all times
Develops and maintains financial models and consolidation tools to support the operating and strategic plans and forecasts
Ensures integrity and quality of financial and statistical data
Identifies process inefficiencies and information gaps, and bridges those gaps through process design and re-engineering as it relates to forecasting, planning and financial modeling
Works closely with regional OCF finance teams to understand forecast submissions, variances from prior forecasts/plan, and SID submissions to assist in telling the consolidated OCF story
Continuously builds an intimate knowledge of the OCF businesses to provide insightful analysis in comparison of actual results to submitted budgets and forecasts
Works closely with Director and Vice-President of Finance on critical financial matters
Participates in annual long-range strategic planning process to consolidate assumptions and present a range of outcomes
Design, maintain, deliver, and own an integrated and consolidated financial forecast analysis model that provides a forecast of the business for OCF globally.
Lead EBIT SID consolidation and preparation ensuring compliance with corporate financial standard.
Assist in preparation of monthly communication through management decks and is the key point of contact for working capital.
Assists in preparation of presentations to the Management Team and Praana.
Owns the forecasting and analysis of working capital, drives process enhancements to improve on forecasting accuracy, and shares insights with regions to ensure accurate inputs in financial forecasts