Senior Operations, FP&A Analyst

The Cooper Companies•Trumbull, CT

59d•Onsite

About The Position

CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and women's healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. As a division of CooperCompanies, we're driven by a unified purpose to enable patients to experience life's beautiful moments. Guided by our shared values - dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing - our offerings support patients throughout their lifetimes, from contraception to fertility and birth solutions, to women's and family care, and beyond. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options, as well as an innovative suite of assisted reproductive technology and genomic testing solutions. Learn more at www.coopersurgical.com. This role is a key, hands-on position with responsibilities spanning multiple workstreams focused on financial analysis, business partnering, reporting and general ad-hoc support. This position reports to the Director of Global Manufacturing Finance with a dotted line to the Trumbull Operations FP&A Manager. This individual will closely partner with Demand Planning, Plant Directors, and Quality to provide critical financial insights into factory performance, standardize business processes, streamline reporting, and identify quality trends to enhance business decision-making. As this role requires a broad understanding of global manufacturing it requires strong financial acumen along with a robust business sense, ability to think critically, and effective communication skills. The Senior Operations FP&A Analyst will be responsible for supporting typical finance rhythms including month-end close, quarterly financial planning, annual budgeting, and strategy. Additionally, this individual will be a key contributor in operating cadences utilized to enhance business decision-making and execute strategic direction such as demand planning, site reviews, KPI tracking, capital expense, and productivity. Lastly, this individual will be responsible to partner with Quality leaders to develop & track key financial metrics and provide value-added insights to improve performance.

Requirements

Experience within a manufacturing environment and a strong understanding of standard cost is required
Proactive individual with an aptitude to learn who strives for continuous improvement
Strong acumen and experience within an ERP system (Navision, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar)
Expertise with a Financial Consolidation system (HFM, Adaptive Planning or similar) is essential
Excellent Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Teams skills (pivot tables, lookups, sumifs, graphs/charts, etc)
Capable of tracing GL transactions and working with large data sets to pull together analysis
Ability to analyze results, summarize underlying drivers, and provide clear and succinct interpretation of results to management.
Strong attention to detail; quality conscious and self-motivated to identify discrepancies and provide solutions
Direct, hands-on experience creating, tracking and controlling actual, forecast and budget metrics
Ability to work under pressure, adhering to multiple deadlines
Willingness to be hands-on and take an active role with your business partners
Broad technical accounting expertise, including good working knowledge of US GAAP
Ability to participate in multi-cultural, global operating environment working with multiple levels of the organization
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Minimum 6 years FP&A experience within manufacturing operations.
B.S. Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Nice To Haves

Related experience within accounting function is a plus.

Responsibilities

Support the Factory & Quality teams, Director of Global Manufacturing Finance and VP of Operations with insightful financial analysis to drive site performance and execute strategic direction
Annual standards development, review, and update for assigned site(s)
Analyze variances to standards, identify root cause and support identification of remediation actions.
Generate monthly analysis for actuals versus latest forecast, budget and prior year for MTD, QTD and YTD positions as required
Review and investigate monthly actuals and provide corrective journals
Prepare and compile the annual operating plan and periodic forecasts for assigned site(s)
Work cross functionally with commercial, operations management and demand planning to understand global impact of build plan updates & provide analysis to support decision-making
Streamline operating system reviews to enable better processing & reporting of results
Create models and analysis of financial and operational metrics to evaluate factory performance
Serve as the finance business partner to the Quality group to develop related KPI's within operations, track performance, and improve decision-making
Maintain weekly and monthly reporting packages to support the site finance and operations management
Establish & maintain department level monthly reporting for US sites
Assist with consolidation of global results
Support management ad hoc projects and analysis
Is an integrated member of the CSI Global Operations FP&A team and the local site management teams