Mgr, Finance Business Partner

Newell Brands•Huntersville, NC

About The Position

The Manager, Brand Cost Finance reports to the Senior Manager, Brand Cost S&OP and serves as a finance partner to Supply Planning, Regional Finance, Corporate Accounting, and other cross-functional teams. The role leads global processes involving inventory forecasting, S&OP finance support, excess and obsolete inventory governance, Accounts Payable forecasting, and related reporting and analysis. It is responsible for forecast accuracy, centralized planning submissions and system loads, financial controls, and translating operational and financial data into leadership insights. This position operates in a fast-paced, flexible, highly matrixed environment. Success requires managing recurring deadlines, resolving data and process issues, influencing stakeholders across functions and regions, and leading through change. The role also leads and develops finance team members and supports broader Brand Cost Finance initiatives and special projects.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree in Accounting or Finance.
3–5 years of experience in finance or accounting.
Working knowledge of Excel and Power BI tools, including data transformation, reconciliation, and process automation.
Strong project and change-management capabilities, including process design, documentation, stakeholder alignment, training, implementation, and adoption.
Ability to deliver stated outcomes, work independently, and take initiative.
Ability to build relationships and influence people across all levels in a matrix organization.
Comfort working with and influencing senior leaders.
Ability to assess risks and opportunities in complex business situations.
Action-oriented, resilient, curious, flexible, positive, and collaborative approach.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) environment, preferably with working capital experience.
Significant experience with SAP and Hyperion is strongly preferred.
Demonstrated record of continued career progression across broader, challenging roles.

Responsibilities

Own the centralized global inventory forecasting process, including submission governance, consolidation, validation, NBPlan load execution, regional financial-adjustment coordination, reconciliation, and executive reporting.
Partner with Supply Planning and Finance stakeholders to translate demand, supply, capacity, sourcing, and inventory assumptions into financial forecasts, scenario analyses, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
Develop and apply structured forecast pressure testing across DIO, implied purchases, inventory trends, capitalized variances, gross E&O, reserve rates, in-transit inventory, and other operational and financial drivers.
Improve Accounts Payable forecast accuracy where applicable, including developing forecasting tools and loading forecasts into Hyperion.
Co-lead global E&O financial governance, including gross E&O and reserve forecasting, reporting standardization, dashboard development, data validation, process controls, and alignment with Brand Finance and Corporate Accounting.
Lead development and standardization of scalable Accounts Payable forecasting methodologies incorporating supplier terms, purchasing patterns, GR/IR, in-transit accruals, freight, business seasonality, and SAP and non-SAP data.
Deliver concise, executive-ready commentary and decision support explaining actual, forecast, and budget variances, including operational drivers, financial implications, risks, and opportunities.
Develop scalable analytical tools, dashboards, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to improve forecast accuracy, strengthen controls, reduce manual effort, and enhance financial visibility.
Lead global process-improvement and change-management initiatives, including standardized templates, calendars, roles and responsibilities, training materials, communication plans, and cross-functional ways of working.
Lead and develop finance team members through objective setting, coaching, feedback, technical development, workload prioritization, and capability building.
Support broader Brand Cost Finance initiatives, special projects, and ad hoc financial analysis as needed.