Manager Finance

Position Summary:

Vallen's FP&A Manager is an individual contributor responsible for performing financial budgeting, forecasting/planning, reporting and analysis to support impactful decisions of the leadership teams. They fulfil a key role in creating financial models to help improve the company's financial performance, accelerate its growth, and drive decision making processes.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitor, analyze and report actual performance against budget/forecast/PY.
• Develop and prepare thoughtful matrices and reports for operations and regions.
• Prepare monthly reporting packages.
• Provide pro-active support to business leaders following distribution of monthly results.
• Assist business leaders in deep dive review of operational areas.
• Develop and direct profitable growth-driven reporting through advanced analytics.
• Assist business leadership in developing 3-5-year strategy to deliver EBIT performance.
• Develop analytics to drive gross margin improvement through customer, vendor, and product insights
• Assist leadership in developing financial forecasting and impact assessment when developing structure strategies for the business.
• Prepare capex/business cases; control business cases and prepare post investment review.
• Facilitate budgeting and forecasting process on a total company level.
• Lead special project analysis as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Job Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting coupled with 7-10 years of financial analysis experience.

Other relevant experience includes:

• MBA, CMA preferred
• Experience with distribution companies and/or manufacturing preferred.
• Demonstration of strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Executive presence to interact with all levels within the organization
• Strong planning, organizational and execution skills
• Excellent MS-Excel and PowerPoint

Work Environment & Physical Demands:

Reasonable accommodations will be evaluated and may be implemented to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

• Long periods of time working on a computer and performing repetitive key-boarding activities.
• Long periods of time performing work over the phone and participating in group conference calls.
• Specific vision abilities are required by this job and include close vision, the ability to adjust focus, and the ability to distinguish color on computer monitors.
• Frequently required to sit and/or stand.
• Frequently required to speak/present in front of others.
• May be required to occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
• The work environment is generally favorable. Lighting and temperature are adequate and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc.

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