Manager – Finance – FP&a

Manager – Finance – FP&a

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting, or relevant Business Management field
• Minimum 7-10 years of relevant experience in finance and accounting, including exposure to international manufacturing and distribution operations
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills required

Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing financial analysis and support to all operational areas affecting the OSM division, including commercial sales, operations/production, engineering, and product management.
• Be the Finance team’s champion behind NBS Next, which is the Nordson Corporation’s approach to rationalizing and growing product sales globally.
• Provides direct supervision to support employees.
• Lead the monthly sales forecast process and coordinate across both the global operations team as well as the sales teams in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
• Own the commissions process for Sales reps, including reviewing for accuracy and ensuring timely payment.
• Develop and provide financial analysis and support for the OSM Finance Director, including sales trend analysis, gross margin analysis, spending and cost center analysis, sales commission analysis, headcount reporting, product line P&L analysis, and general balance sheet analysis.
• Administers, maintains and improves FP&A and control policies, procedures, work processes and reporting systems to support growth and efficiency, while reducing complexity and increasing speed.
• Assists in preparing current estimates, short-range plans, and KPIs.
• Prepare and analyze daily orders, shipments & backlog reporting for multiple product lines in OSM. The products are manufactured in multiple locations including Chicago, IL, Golden Valley, MN, China and Singapore.
• Participate in the month-end close, including preparation of required journal entries, account reconciliations, and prepare month-end variance analysis for the income statement and working capital.
• Partners with Accounting to ensure accurate and complete financial records, including monthly closing efforts, and support issue resolution, in compliance with legal requirements, local accounting and US GAAP standards.
• Meets corporate and divisional requirements in a timely and accurate manner.
• Identify and implement best practices and continuous improvement opportunities in the Finance organization.
• Utilizes appropriate financial analysis techniques, data, and prudent assumptions to evaluate financial results.
• Assumes other special activities and responsibilities as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong initiative, problem solving, financial analysis and communication skills.
• Ability to work in a matrixed organization while keeping a clear understanding of the objectives and financial commitments of the businesses.
• Superior technical financial skills, hands on data modeling skills, balanced with sound business judgment, including the ability to balance financial and operational factors, analyze complex business problems and develop appropriate solutions.
• Ability to receive assignments in form of objectives with goals and process to meet goals outlined.
• Able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule forms.
• Strong working knowledge of accounting software, Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint and Word.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers; ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.