Description:
The Strategic Finance & Treasury manager will refine and maintain integrated financial models that guide the organization’s decision-making processes and help CFO manage the treasury function. This person will work closely with the CFO to execute a detailed annual budget process, detailed quarterly forecast updates and ad-hoc financial analysis. This person will maintain analysis in support of product pricing decisions, product costing assumptions, sales by SKU, overhead allocations and various ROI calculations in support of the organizations ongoing expansion. This role requires someone highly skilled in MS Excel with the abilities to navigate disparate data sets. This person will also be involved in and drive the monthly and quarterly financial close process in close collaboration with the Controller and CFO. In addition to working closely with the CFO, the person in this position will have the opportunity to interact directly with other members of the senior leadership team and participate in board meetings.
Investment Banking or Equity research experience 2-3 years with financial modeling skills would be preferred!
Responsibilities:
- Support decision making and accurate planning through the development of financial models, summary of assumptions and key financial metric analyses.
- Interact effectively with multiple levels of leadership within the organization including Sales, Operations Management and Executive Leadership.
- Oversee the maintenance and further development of robust monthly reporting packages that provide for timely and reliable financial and operational information for internal decision-making processes, including analytics that accompany the financial reports.
- Continuously refine projections and analyze variances in Sales and Expenses under rapidly changing CPG Retail assumptions.
- Facilitate the development of KPI’s and translate results into Company dashboards in support of performance management plans.
- Prepare, review and distribute monthly comparisons of the budget to actual results and prior year actual results to the current year, together with variance explanations for consolidated, divisional and departmental results.
- Work closely with CFO in managing cash conversion cycle and in managing relationship with lenders including preparation of borrowing base and cash sweep mechanism.
- Coordinate closely with other members of the finance organization and present quarterly business reviews to the CFO, CEO, and department managers along with applicable variance explanations.
- Ability to create and maintain conceptual and highly complex, efficient, logical financial models.
- Develop and maintain financial models used for product innovation investments.
- Oversee the administration of the budgeting and financial reporting library.
- Collect data outputs from various sources: Payroll, General Ledger Module, Customer Portals, Inventory Modules, Production Planning Modules, etc.
- Assist in Investor Relations functions such as earnings preparation, analyst interactions and investor presentations.
- Strong work ethic, positive attitude and team player.