Senior Financial Analyst

What you will do

As Senior Financial Analyst, you will be an integral part of our finance team, responsible for delivering high-quality financial analysis and insights to support strategic decision-making. You will analyze financial performance, prepare forecasts, and assist in budgeting efforts while providing key recommendations to enhance profitability and efficiency.

You will support the Europe and Middle-East Logistics and Distribution (L&D) organization by providing informative, relevant, and timely financial analysis on monthly performance, forward looking budgets and forecasts, and operational initiatives. You will be responsible for financial management reporting to provide insight into operational metrics and their financial impacts for 3 primary and 6 secondary distribution centers with $25 million of annual warehouse cost as well as $60 million of freight spending within the EMEA region.

How you will do it

• Development of regional plan and forecasts
• Communicate and explain forecast assumptions and methodology in a transparent manner to site and regional leadership as well as Product Business Units
• Prepare in-depth financial and operational analysis of regional financial results
• Support a strong controls and governance environment
• Assist with internal and external audits at distribution sites within the region
• Take a pro-active approach to find gaps in financial controls and governance
• Conduct balance sheet reviews in conjunction with shared service centers
• Provide financial oversight to the cycle count processes, partner with site leaders to organize and coordinate the annual physical inventory counts where necessary
• Provide financial leadership on cross functional projects including locations and optimizing distribution points, inventory levels, and transportation; deployment of freight audit & pay processes; development of capital expenditure investments requests, reporting of spending, and validation of savings achievement
• Be a key team member to represent EMEA logistics and distribution in ERP system implementations.

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