Finance Manager, Global Functions

Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value for our stakeholders. In 2024, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees distributing products and services to 117 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.

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