Senior Financial Analyst

Newell Brands•Huntersville, NC

About The Position

Newell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands like Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid®, Sharpie® and Yankee Candle® - and 24,000 talented teammates around the world. Our culture is built on values in action: Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership, and Leadership. We work together to win, grow, and make a real impact—supported by a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative environment where you can be your best, every day. The Senior Financial Analyst will play an integral role in helping drive value from our direct materials procurement categories. Specifically, the Senior Financial Analyst will partner with key sourcing leaders to ensure the successful delivery of near-term focused value while creating a sustainable platform for long-term growth. To accomplish these objectives, the role will be expected to provide sharp, proactive, timely insights and analysis which drive improved business decisions and – as a result – enhanced business outcomes. The role will also help drive enterprise-wide data initiatives, including but not limited to enhanced variance reporting, improved insights to category inflation, productivity opportunities, and other key data inputs to better understand the linkage between ERP system data elements and spend by category. Responsibilities will include assistance with financial modeling, forecasting and budgeting processes as well as effectively partnering with our sourcing team, analytics Center of Excellence (COE), IT, and BU finance teams to ensure productivity outcomes and inflation guidance are aligned with our P&L. The successful candidate will be an established leader with a proven track record of providing business decision support through the delivery of timely and meaningful insights and analysis. The successful candidate must have strategic capabilities as well as be hands-on and comfortable with tactical execution.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent
3+ years in in financial planning, analysis, and/or modeling
Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
Detail-oriented and able to perform in a high-pressure environment
Past experience in Finance and Accounting roles; may include FP&A, Decision Support, and/or P&L accountability for key operations, functions, or business units within a company
Communication: Can build relationships and influence people across all levels in a matrix organization
Power BI: ability to navigate, modify, and develop models is essential
SAP / Hyperion systems knowledge and experience
Analytical skills: ability to analyze complex problems using data from multiple sources
Personal qualities: Resilient, driven, curious, flexible, positive, collaborative

Nice To Haves

Experience with raw commodities subject to market inflation a plus

Responsibilities

Finance business partner to Resin & Wax procurement category leads
Assist procurement team with financial guidance
Validate productivity outcomes resulting from competitive bid activities in the direct material sourcing categories ensuring that savings are accurately calculated, and actuals and forecasts are being updated, providing training support where necessary
Own Business Case development where applicable in support of category or enterprise objectives, consolidate multiple data sets into a single analysis that produces the optimal recommendation for Newell Brands, given current year and future year financial targets and strategic priorities
Support budget and forecast including inflation calculations; drive eventual automation within PowerBI environment, in addition to aligning key assumptions and forecast with BU finance teams
Model a culture that improves the organization’s comfort with the speed of change, challenging assumptions, relentless pursuit of improvement – all with a high sense of personal accountability
Professionally challenge current and/or traditional ways of thinking and lead new ways/approaches

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