Lead Financial Analyst

Job Description
This role is primarily responsible for being a valued finance business partner to Supply Chain Vice Presidents and center leadership and supporting a business that in total has nearly $3 billion in revenues and over 2 billion in pounds shipped. This includes partnering closely with field leadership and other Centers of Excellence to identify areas where Supply Chain can gain efficiencies and understand the financial impact of any potential actions. This role is responsible for effectively communicating financial analysis and insights on a consistent basis and providing recommendations that will influence changes in operations to help drive the business forward.
In addition, this role will partner with center leadership to create all center and regional forecasts / budgets and understand any variances to the expected “flow through” numbers. This position will manage projections to be utilized in the consolidated Supply Chain results that are reviewed by Leadership Team and the Board of Directors.
Responsibilities
Provide finance business partner support to Vice Presidents and Directors as their key contact in Finance
Manage periodic, quarterly and YTD reporting and analysis for centers performance
Effectively communicate &
present financial information to regional and EVP leadership
Identify and advise on areas of opportunities in their performance
Support ad-hoc requests related to the region
Provide financial analysis and insights to facilitate and drive key decisions for the region and Supply Chain
Partner with Centers of Excellence to identify and analyze potential savings initiatives and provide recommendations to senior leadership
Identify key metrics to measure performance vs. expected savings
Use data and insights to influence operational actions
Effectively communicate and present the initiatives performance
Prepare all flash forecasts for the supply chain centers and region
Partner with the regional leadership team to create accurate expense forecasts based on prescribed volumes
Clearly articulate expense variances to expected “flow through” results
Partner with the leadership team and advise on potential actions to mitigate the variances
Communicate results and variances to the regional team and the Director of Finance
Prepare annual budget for region
Partner with regional leadership teams to create the annual budget
Partner with other functions in the WRC to gather budget inputs to ensure a holistic and accurate forecast
Identify unexpected variances to “flow through” to ensure an accurate budget
Partner with impacted teams to fully understand what is driving the results and any potential solutions
Communicate results to Director of Finance for consolidated reporting
Lead the analysis for strategic business projects when it pertains to the centers
Act as the main point of contact and finance partner for all strategic business projects
Effectively influence project stakeholders on appropriate levels of returns and tracking
Create reporting and track results for strategic projects against their stated goals
Effectively communicate the results and any applicable recommendations to leadership and any potential actions needed to be taken
Assist on ad hoc reporting requests
Assist the Finance Director or lead higher level Supply Chain finance requests