Senior Financial Analyst, Business Intelligence & Finance Excellence

Company Description

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company. We are Making Possible™ products and solutions that help advance the industries we serve, providing branding and information solutions that optimize labor and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste and mitigate loss, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency and better connect brands and consumers. We design and develop labeling and functional materials, radio-frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, software applications that connect the physical and digital and offerings that enhance branded packaging and carry or display information that improves the customer experience. Serving industries worldwide — including home and personal care, apparel, general retail, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive — we employ approximately 35,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Our reported sales in 2025 were $8.9 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

At Avery Dennison, some of the great benefits we provide are:

• Health & wellness benefits starting on day 1 of employment

• Paid parental leave

• 401K eligibility

• Tuition reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program eligibility / Health Advocate

• Paid vacation and paid holidays

Job Description

The Senior Financial Analyst, Business Intelligence will be a key contributor to the Commercial Finance and Pricing department, driving efficiency and strategic decision-making through actionable business insights. This role involves leveraging advanced technology and collaborating closely with IT to develop and implement robust business intelligence tools. A primary focus will be on optimizing critical financial processes through standardization, automation, and empowering self-service solutions for both Finance and our commercial partners in Sales and Marketing. The analyst will also be instrumental in redefining profitability allocations, enhancing data accuracy, and supporting the sales excellence team with data-driven strategies to improve overall sales effectiveness and with aligning the marketing team to the true drivers of their portfolio performance.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the month end close process by aligning our profitability tool to our P&L, this requires a developed Financial acumen skill that enables you to translate our manufacturing processes and Financial models into a complex profitability tool

• Manage technology projects, gather customer requirements and work together with IT to deliver the right solution for the team in terms of pioneering new strategic approaches to business intelligence, leveraging advanced analytics to uncover insights that solve complex business challenges and drive continuous improvement in our data quality and structure.

• Redefine profitability allocations in terms of transactional data accuracy and allocation methodology, driving enhanced business drivers and adapting to the various complexities within our business cost structure

• Be a strategic business partner with the sales excellence team to further drive sales strategies and effectiveness through business intelligence tools, cloud platforms, and new ways of thinking about the business

• Be the leader for change management by being an advocate for change, proactively guiding teams toward using all of our tools and highlighting all the advantages of BI; you are the expert of our tools, understand all their potential, and can provide training to all our cross functional teams.

• Partner with internal team members to understand their needs and translate them into new dashboards/reports/insights that help them understand all key drivers within their customer or product portfolios.

• Support our strategy of moving the organization up the Business Intelligence learning curve into a full self service model with sustainable, adaptable, and dynamic business practices that eliminate non-value added work.

• Establish and build upon strong, cohesive working relationships between Finance and all our team members in IT and the Commercial organization

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required; Finance, Business Analytics, or Accounting preferred

• 5+ years of progressive experience in finance and/or accounting, with significant experience in a manufacturing environment preferred

• Proven expertise in developing robust and dynamic financial models that translate complex data into clear, strategic narratives for executive-level business stakeholders

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with a track record of effe