Senior Financial Analyst

Safeguard Medical•Huntersville, NC

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst will lead and provide a broad range of business analysis across all aspects of internal management reporting, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and results analysis. Emphasis on supporting production and supply chain to provide accurate gross margin analysis with timely, comprehensive, clear messaging of financial results and to drive actions to move results. Partner closely with functional leaders in developing financial plans (budget, forecasts, and multi-year strategies). Partner closely with IT and finance systems experts to develop systemic tools to facilitate timely reporting. This candidate will work closely with the Senior Director Global FP&A and CFO in the development of financial projections to support the Company’s strategic plans, including evaluating target-company financials considered for acquisition/expansion. Opportunity The Senior Financial Analyst will be a truly collaborative partner with a seat at the table. You will bring your unique point of view, experience, and passion for the work to your team and internal clients. In Finance, you will be an integral voice in discussions that lead to Safeguard’s growth plans. Your input and work product will be directly applied to critical business decisions from sales to operations across the global businesses. Your financial expertise will contribute and guide the Company’s growth strategy, both organic and through further acquisitions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, MBA/CPA preferred.
Ability to work closely with commercial, operations, and administrative functions and demonstrate results delivery through those relationships.
Must have fundamental understanding of GAAP reporting standards.
Exceptional understanding of manufacturing and cost accounting processes.
Thrives in a transformational environment; emerging business building best-in-class processes (rather than a caretaker for mature, fully developed systems).
Comfortable with change, managing competing priorities, deadline driven.
Ability to interact, challenge, and communicate effectively with team members at all levels within the organization.
Leadership, project management, analytical, and excellent communication skills (oral and written) are required.
Ability to work independently or in a team environment with strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Occasional travel both domestic and international may be required (<20%).
4+ years of finance, accounting, or relevant technical/analytical experience required.
Strong knowledge of global manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, commercial, administration, sales.
Excellent analytical skills.
Experience in building a plan to the plan, overseeing the annual planning process for a global organization in terms of timeline, review cadence, and reporting to meet the needs of company stakeholders.
Strong leadership, mentoring, and project management skills.
Ability to apply intuition, experience, and judgment to available data to make sound business decisions.
Ability to drive process improvements in a global environment.
Strong written and oral communication skills.
Strong business partnering and interpersonal skills.
Organized, flexible, and easily adaptable to changing conditions.
Ability to work well in high-pressure situations in order to meet deadlines.
High degree of proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint.
Ability to multi-task and manage numerous simultaneous priorities.
High energy, high ownership of work product, and dedication and commitment to driving results.
English language fluency required.
Demonstrates ownership and accountability; the ability to plan, execute, control, and deliver; communicate effectively both verbally and in writing; lead and influence others effectively; independently define problems, collect data, establish facts and solve problems; develop priorities and adjust work plans to meet deadlines; apply logic and common sense understanding to carry out varying technical or mathematical instructions and general accounting procedures.

Nice To Haves

MBA/CPA preferred.

Responsibilities

Analyze monthly financial results at the functional level, meeting with global leadership team in providing data-based decision-making support, ensuring spend is in line with plans and forecasts.
Proactively review gross margin results by geography, product group, and commercial channel.
Collaborate with the FP&A team to prepare monthly/quarterly ELT and Board decks.
Establish single source of truth for metrics (sales to EBIT), reporting, etc. to evaluate progress including the selection and implementation of improved software tools to enable reporting.
Drive the development of standardized financial reporting across each entity including early stage acquired entities lacking process and/or tools to enable financial analysis.
Partner with sales leaders and sales reporting analysts to compile, analyze, and accurately project sales performance.
Partner with operations and commercial leaders to identify potential cost savings and/or revenue driving opportunities.
Deploy sales and operations efficiency metrics/KPl's to help improve EBITDA.
Drive maturation of month end/quarter-end reviews/discussions.
Key contributor in the development of the global annual operating plan, making efficient use of leaders’ time by driving the discussion towards decision making, armed with accurate data.
Effectively presents and communicates complex financial topics to the executive team and business partners in a way that is easily understood.
Provide support on key decisions on headcount investments and resource deployment.
Assist in the development of BI reporting tools, data warehouse, or other tools to improve overall execution of Safeguard strategies, decision making, and KPI improvement.
Perform ad hoc tasks as assigned and assist on key projects.
Ensure balanced but challenging goals are built into financial plans and forecasts.
Oversee the capital equipment budget process, including development of ROI analysis to support investment decisions.
Champion process improvement initiatives across the global business.