Finance Business Partner

We Offer:

As a company, we promote a culture of honesty and integrity, and value the trust it allows us to build with customers and employees alike. Our focus on our people is what sets us apart and keeps our customers coming back to work with us!

If you are seeking to be a part of a family, this is the place for you!

You will be a part of our North American Finance team, a diverse and motivated team with a strong desire to push forward the significant growth and transformation of our business, generate value for our customers and deliver sustainable returns to our shareholders.

You will be a key financial partner to the Operations leadership team to transform your customer portfolio and enable us to deliver the best possible products that solve real customer needs. You will have an important seat at the table to help drive our business toward success. You will support the decision-making process by providing financial information, deep-dive analysis, performance management and financial planning. As a leader of the FP&A activities for your specific operations, you will spear-head the financial forecast, annual budgeting process, and crucial strategic analysis. This is an opportunity to impact the execution of the North America's Warehouse and Distribution strategy with focus on improving financial processes, providing insights into the business thru metrics and analytics, and developing financial models to grow your business's top and bottom line.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Business Partner for the FP&A team responsible for 2-3 Distribution Facilities within the region; managing the P&L, Financial Outlook, Risks & Opportunities, providing insight analytics and Short/Long Term modeling, to name a few
• Create and own Weekly Forecasts for responsible sites by working closely with Operations, Accounting and Billing Specialist Teams, and independently utilizing Accounting systems to monitor and track Revenue/Expenses as they are incurred
• Ability to lay out detailed assumptions and effectively bridge variances from Budget to Forecast, and Forecast to Actual.
• Proactively participate in New Business pricing (RFP's) and provide necessary financial input that should be included in the pricing model, such as, not limited to, relevant market cost data, labor rates and productivities, accounting treatment on Revenue/Costs, propose proper rate structure to mitigate the company's risk
• Drive annual Budget process, a bottom's up approach, by working closely with Operations and Commercial teams to build a solid, detailed set up assumptions using historical/future anticipated trends, and following through with pertinent team members that commitments are kept and delivered on a timely basis
• Prepare Investment Proposal's for new investments (CapEx, Lease Commitments), analyzing ROI, FCF, NPV, Payback Period of a new customer contract, that will be presented to Senior Management for approval
• Track and summarize CapEx spending for investment projects, reviewing invoices with relevant stakeholders.
• Work directly with Operations to create and implement tools to track pertinent KPI's, including, but not limited to, hourly tracking, volume, productivity, key contractual parameter's
• Conduct special studies to analyze complex financial actions and prepare recommendations for policy, procedure, control, or action.
• Prepare timely and accurate reports, plans, and forecasts for internal and external constituents.
• Make recommendations to management regarding cost saving or profit generating opportunities and profitability improvement strategies including the ROI.
• Coordinate with all levels of management to gather, analyze, summarize, and prepare recommendations regarding financial plans, acquisition activity, new business planning, trended future requirements, government requirements, and operating forecasts.
• Partner with the execution team/teams to ensure the company goals are known and pursued
• Challenge business case or decision base assumptions and ensure that a benefit realization check is in place for all major business cases.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university
• Minimum of 5 years financial analysis experience
• Logistics, Distribution, Warehouse, or Transportation highly desired. Open to any relatable industry.

• Knowledge of Accounting software such as Netsuite, SAP, Anaplan, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, and MS Word software.

Job Type:

Full Time

This role allows the selected candidate to work from home 2 days per week as part of our flexible work policy.

Salary:

$100,000 - $110,000*

*The above stated pay range is the anticipated starting salary range for the position. The Company may adjust this range in light of prevailing market conditions and other factors such as location. The Company will work directly with the selected candidate(s) on the final starting salary in accordance with all applicable laws.

Benefits:

Full time employees are eligible for Health Insurance, Paid Time Off, and 401k Match.

Notice to applicants applying to positions in the United States

You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. Relocation & Immigration support is not available for this position.

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