Associate Finance Manager, Supply Chain - B&W NA

Associate Finance Manager Supply Chain - B&W NA

Work Level 1C

Job Summary

Associate Finance Manager B&W SC in Beauty & Wellbeing Supply Chain Finance Team (B&W SCF team) will play an important role in driving finance partnership with B&W Procurement across both 3rd party manufacturing network, Raw & Pack materials. Cost Transformation, Material Forecasting, Month End Close analysis in scope of material impacts will be key focus points of the agenda and will be a custodian of Material savings agenda. In addition, the role will be business partnering Supply chain organization, largely the procurement function.

Every year B&W delivers significant amount of savings and we have a very ambitious plan for the next 3 years. As Finance, we need to ensure that our business partners have full visibility into savings agenda, inflation headwinds, sourcing decisions and ultimately understanding the current delivery and future risks and opportunities.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Forecast and Actuals – responsible for reconciliation of monthly material results (NMI / Net Material Impact), monthly forecast updates specifically deeper forecast updates on Procurement Cycles (Inflation updates), providing risk assessment and quality insights to in month delivery and forward forecast.
• 3PM Business Partnering & Cost Management – Responsible for partnering with both 3PM Procurement & 3PM Operations teams controlling ~30m annual miscellaneous budget in providing analysis & support on decision making for trade-offs on material cost to support both our 3PM & Internal operations
• Business case evaluation – responsible for running different Business cases related to Sourcing changes across SC network, as the B&W SC Network is driving transformation
• Monthly Results Reviews – Responsible for leading monthly results review with B&W Procurement, giving analysis & insights to procurement function on how results are landing & potential R&O. Monthly miscellaneous budget reviews with Procurement & 3PM Operations teams driving cost control & budget management on miscellaneous spend. Monthly 3PM Spend review partnering with 3PM Ops & Procurement in understanding bought in costs across the various 3PMs supporting both Styling & Liquids business.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; MBA or CPA strongly preferred
• Minimum three years of relevant work experience 

• Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills to clearly communicate results and implications of analysis
• Experience communicating financial acumen effectively including finance and non-finance.
• Ability to handle and work under pressure and to tight deadlines, strong bias for action, ability to work with remote teams
• Strong technical acumen and attention to detail. 
• Experience in PBCS/AFO/PowerBI is strongly preferred.  

• Strong Team Player. Enjoys working in a collaborative team environment.

Challenges

• Critical area for the B&W Business to improve Profitability
• Being comfortable in analyzing big complex Data, and communicate results simply and effectively
• Being comfortable challenging stakeholders
• Business Partnering across multiple functional teams within the supply chain organization – specifically Procurement & 3PM Operations

Key Requirements

• Role based in Hoboken NJ
• Prior Supply Chain Finance and financial planning experience preferred
• Exceptional knowledge of financial information systems
• Advanced technical and analytical skills
• Advanced logic and problem solving skills

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