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This Senior Financial Analyst role focuses on Ecolab’s North America Supply Chain. This role is involved in forecasting, variance analysis and reporting related to material loss activity, at-risk inventory and other plant metrics. This role reports through the Manager Financial Planning and Analysis for the NA Manufacturing Plants. The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for business decision support for the plant teams, SC leadership, and the divisions and plays an important role in driving initiatives that are geared toward improving profitability and transparency of supply chain owned costs. The Senior Financial Analyst will also play a key role in ad-hoc project support. 

What You Will Do:

  • Material Loss
  • Manage plant forecast process and provide divisional outputs – including commentary on key changes
  • Review / analyze monthly results from a plant and divisional perspective – create reporting that ties these two views together
  • Guide the budget / target setting process for plant activity
  • Perform risk analyses for legacy ECL divisions and support actions necessary to mitigate those risks
  • Inventory / Reserve Management
  • Monitor at-risk inventory and its impact on our reserve calculation
  • Understand and summarize key drivers in at-risk movements Function as finance support VPs of Manufacturing and the Divisional OBLs providing value-added information about cost of goods sold and division gross margin. Also, plays a key role in communication of changes in supply chain forecast information impacting the business.
  • Review corporate policies and determine / document exceptions to those policies in order to present the correct information
  • Ad Hoc Project Work
  • When necessary work with NA SC leadership to take on additional projects to improve visibility into all things related to plant performance (MFG, inventory controls, close / forecast tasks, audit requests, etc.)
  • Enhance existing and develop new reporting and processes for providing insights into the Inventory, Material Loss and other supply chain owned costs impacting division gross margin and cost of sales.
  • Partner with the regional supply chain finance, division finance, and planning teams to identify and execute projects.
  • Responsible for preparing total delivered cost reconciliations and net structural savings reporting for the division, ensuring alignment between supply chain and the division.
  • Ensuring proper accounting/financial reporting procedures are implemented, and consolidated reporting using EPM, Access and other financial systems.
  • Assist Controllers on plant closing activities as necessary. Including all aspects of monthly, quarterly and annual close processes, balance sheet reconciliation and basic reporting functions associated with general ledger, external and internal audit management.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics
  • 4 years of finance and/or accounting experience
  • No immigration sponsorship available for this position

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Professional certifications (MBA, CPA, etc.)
  • Prior experience in Supply Chain or Business gross margin role
  • Extensive experience in BI, Power BI and SAP
  • Ability to own their work and work independently as needed
  • Overall business acumen and ability to deal with ambiguity
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills to support relationships with all levels of management and between functions.
  • Results-oriented, proactive, and possess a high level of integrity
  • Excellent project management skills
  • Networking skills, with the ability to build and maintain business relationships
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a working knowledge and prior experience with financial reporting/analysis, budgeting and forecasting, and accounting theory and practice.
  • Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite software (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, etc.), Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM).

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Benefits 

Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Click here to see our benefits. 

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Covid-19 Vaccine Notice

Due to local mandates and customer requirements, applicants for certain customer-facing positions must be fully vaccinated (which in some situations requires a booster if eligible), unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab. 

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Ecolab will provide reasonable accommodation (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with our application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require accommodation assistance in this application process, please call Ecolab Recruiting Support at (866) 841-6682 for assistance. 

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