FP&A Lead

Position Summary:

 

The FP&A Lead manages activities within the financial analysis function, responsible for reporting and analytics meant to provide management critical information and analysis needed to make financial decisions. This position is responsible for coordinating corporate finance activities, maintaining a strong link to the strategic plan.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support corporate FP&A activities related to Earnings Releases, Board of Director presentations and highlights letter preparations.
• Create effective business partnerships, manage competing priorities, and provide guidance based on data analysis during unexpected events. 

• Execute the forecasting and budgeting to create a financial forecast drafting the messaging for leadership decision making and awareness.

• Support the Annual Operating Plan schedule and consolidation.
• Partner with plant finance teams to deliver monthly financial close.
• Work with leaders to identify opportunities for cost savings and yield improvements, holding owners accountable.

• Aide in process improvement across the FP&A and Finance organizations.

• Identifying variance with strong data and analytical capabilities.
• Measuring against financial strategies to assess the health of the business against business objectives.
• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Partner with finance team to standardize and automate forecasting while simplifying and improving forecast accuracy. 
• Build financial justification for capital requests in support of capacity growth.
• Drive non-capital productivity efforts to grow capacity.
• Support capital prioritization process, ensuring capital dollars are optimized.
• Establish a quarterly process to evaluate capital v. expense to ensure proper accounting treatment.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in financial planning & analysis or commercial finance
• CMA, CPA, and/or MBA a plus
• Experience in manufacturing operations a plus

Additional Qualifications:

· Advanced PC skills with emphasis on Excel and SAP

· Advanced financial modeling skills a must

· Strong process improvement skills

· Strong business acumen and analytical skills

· Strong attention to detail

· Strong bias for action, positive attitude, self-starter

· Excellent interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills

· Ability to develop and implement standardized processes

· Must have demonstrated the ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously, as well as identify process improvement opportunities and implement change

At AdvanSix, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past work experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to still apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, veteran status, or any other protected classification.

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