Finance Manager, Global Functions

Position Summary

Reporting to the Finance Director, Global Functions within the Corporate FP&A team, the Finance Manager, Global Functions’ primary responsibility is to be a business partner for the Research & Development (R&D) and Information Technology (IT) organizations and lead their financial processes.  The successful candidate will oversee all FP&A related activities for those two areas including month-end close, reporting and analysis, rolling forecast, Annual Operating Plan (AOP), and multi-year Long Range Plan (LRP).  This role will work alongside other Managers within the Global Functions team to ensure budget adherence, process standardization, and resource management.

Job Description

Major responsibilities for this position include: 

• Providing financial and decision support to the R&D and IT leadership teams
• Ensuring the integrity of the month-end close process - managing expense accruals and reclasses, confirming proper accounting treatment between capital and expense for project related costs, and interacting closely with shared services and procurement to maintain accurate financials
• Maintaining internal controls, adherence to Sealed Air policies, and GAAP compliant environment: addressing all audit requests timely and appropriately, performing reconciliations to test adherence, raising due diligence items as required
• Leading the monthly forecast, AOP, and LRP processes for R&D and IT
• Partnering with R&D and IT leadership on project pipelines to ensure the quality of the financial information contained in forward-looking projections 
• Preparing routine (e.g. functional reporting packages, variance analysis, vitality index) and ad-hoc reporting and analysis (e.g. business case financial modeling) as required
• Preparing all Investment Committee (IC) review packages for capital and operating expense projects – establishing project financials, validating business cases, preparing executive summaries, supporting presentations of the projects to the IC, and overseeing project execution financials. 
• Overseeing and advising on asset management and monitor Constructions In Process. Providing guidance on capitalization rules per US GAAP and internal policy. Maintaining a monthly forecast for software amortization.
• Performing post-project delivery make good analysis of actual vs expected results as it relates to budget, timeline, and scope
• Supporting and partnering on cost savings initiatives with supported functions and track savings impacts.
• Ensuring continued development of analyst level team members by providing training and coaching to these colleague(s) to grow within and beyond current role(s).
• Continuously identifying and implementing improvements across all financial processes, focusing on process automation, efficiency improvements, and providing business teams with additional insights that better inform decision making.
• Actively problem solve to develop analytical approaches to answer queries in a timely manner

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required; CPA, CMA, or MBA preferred
• 5+ years of work experience in financial analysis, preferably in a multi-national, corporate finance setting
• Experienced user of SAP, BIA / B4P / HANA, and OneStream (or similar planning tools, e.g. Hyperion HFM Planning, Anaplan, etc.)
• Strong modeling skills using Excel, macros, VBA, or Power Query; Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI is a plus
   

Additional Qualifications

• Solid knowledge of business concepts, accounting principles, and strong analytical skills
• Proficient in team management, with a passion for driving analyst development and talent recognition.
• Flexible, patient, and highly pragmatic with ability to re-prioritize quickly.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes, and recommend solutions.  Always focused on achieving outcomes.
• Detail-oriented and able to multi-task under pressure.  Mentally resilient to endure challenges associated with fluid and demanding environments where priorities evolve constantly.
• Energetic, positive, and collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal and team building skills.  Desire to be a leader on the team and to mentor analyst level team members.
• Ability to organize, manage and prioritize work for self, project support resources, and associated non-financial business partners.  Able to work with and coach a diverse team.
• Entrepreneurial spirit who continuously is thinking about how to work more efficiently / automate processes and proactively puts these ideas into practice.
• Effective, clear, and concise written and verbal communication skills.  Comfortable communicating across all levels of the organization.