Sr Financial Analyst

Univar Solutions • Bellevue, WA

1d • $98,480 - $123,090 • Hybrid

About The Position

The primary purpose of the Sr Financial Analyst (FP&A) is to support the commercial leaders by providing timely and insightful analysis and to influence and drive the decision-making process. The role will collaborate with multiple teams, identify key drivers of success, and meet important deadlines while living the mission and values of ChemPoint. The Sr FP&A will also develop and implement the organization’s financial functions and performance, relating to month end close activities, as well as preparation of recurring and ad-hoc financial reports and variance and trend analyses. Builds and maintains financial models that monitor past results and projects future performance. Utilizes comprehensive understanding of business processes and financial acumen to clearly communicate concepts and analysis to others at varying levels of level and function.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with concentration in Accounting or Finance from fully accredited four-year institution is preferred
• 3-5 years of financial and business analysis experience with increased scope and responsibility in progressive finance roles
• Strong financial analytics capabilities - able to interpret variances and trends in financial data and identify insights and findings
• Critical thinking in review of results and problem solving
• Strong Excel skills, including lookup and sumif formulas, as well as pivot tables.
• Ability to adapt quickly and learn new tasks independently, while managing competing priorities

Nice To Haves

• CPA/CMA preferable
• Prior financial experience in chemicals, distribution and related industries is a plus
• Microsoft Great Plains and CRM Dynamics beneficial experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• Responsible for conducting routine analytics across sales channels, products, customers and geography to help identify risks/opportunities/actions to increase profitability, speed and win rate for sales team, product management, and BU leadership
• Responsible for daily projections of monthly Sales/DGP/EBITDA to Leadership Team, utilizing trend analysis as well as expected unique events
• Design, standardize and streamline reports using multiple reporting tools
• Evaluate monthly financial results, provide valuable insights and analysis to commercial leaders and drive improvement actions
• Provide root/cause driver analysis to support decision-making by effectively communicating and translating the results into business insights and actions
• Produce various recurring and ad-hoc financial reports that measure financial performance and track against enterprise KPI’s
• Translate data into timely and meaningful management insights through the right metrics and interpretation
• Support preparation of weekly, monthly and quarterly forecasts of the company’s financial performance for use with internal management as well as external parties
• Assist in the development and execution of annual budget
• Collaborate with technical stakeholders to transition routine, manual spreadsheets into live, actionable dashboards
• Perform special projects to improve process efficiency and performance
• Perform ad hoc, ambiguous, and novel requests that require creative problem-solving, strategic thinking, with high adaptability to uncertainty

Benefits

• health, vision, dental coverage
• industry-leading retirement and time off programs
• Strong work/life flexibility.
• To be surrounded by an inclusive team who is collaborative and committed to the achievement of the company.
• To be rewarded for your contributions with a targeted annual company bonus and annual salary reviews.
• Competitive pay and benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level