Senior Financial Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

The Senior Financial Analyst will support the North America Personal Care business with a focus on Supply Chain and Cost of Sales. This position provides financial leadership to the business team and acts as an indispensable partner in achievement of business objectives. 

It starts with YOU. 

In this role, you will:

• Influence the organization in a way that balances market share, top-line growth, profitability, and balance sheet efficiency to create long-term shareholder value

• Identify relevant issues, clarify strategic choices, and bring a point of view to the table that influences the direction of the organization

• Proactively bring forward insights and ideas

• Drive and lead things that matter across the business

• Take accountability to deliver results that have a meaningful impact on the success of Kimberly-Clark

• Provide brand leadership with financial counsel by supplying meaningful analysis and articulating choices relative to current performance, projected business plans, innovation pipeline, and other discrete projects. 

• Cultivate a cross-functional network and develop a deep understanding of the Supply Chain and business strategies.

• Provide thought leadership and sound business management to recommend courses of action to achieve brand and sector goals with a primary focus on Cost of Sales and Supply Chain.

• Leverage Cost of Sales and Supply Chain expertise to drive accuracy and continuous improvement of forecasting processes.

• Act as a source of business knowledge and problem-solving capabilities to ensure sound analyses and recommendations across a wide range of business decisions that may include market growth, innovation, go-to-market strategies, and investments.

• Embrace and demonstrate a continuous improvement mindset to improve the quality and productivity of the Finance team

• Ensure application of corporate financial controls via effective communication, implementation, and audit of control procedures

• Demonstrate a commitment to quality performance through personal example by adopting a customer-based approach to business support.  Embrace and demonstrate Kimberly-Clark’s leadership behaviors:  Build Trust, Make Decisions, Win Consistently, Think Customer, Continuously Improve, and Build Talent

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex

That Works: flexible work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Who you are?

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field

• 3+ years of progressive financial analysis experience

• Demonstrated organizational skills to manage functional workload, multiple priorities, and competing time demands

• Demonstrated ability to effectively utilize strateg