Financial Analyst - Houston, TX

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Start your career journey with Univar Solutions!  Here you can make an impact on the world around you and accelerate your career in areas that energize and excite you. 

 

Do you have a sharp analytical mindset, a curiosity for data, and a passion for turning numbers into insights? We’re looking for a Financial Analyst who brings strong Excel skills, commercial awareness, and the ability to “tell the story” behind the data. 

 

In this role, you’ll partner closely with finance and commercial teams, support business decision-making, and help focus the organization on what matters most. You’ll thrive if you’re proactive, organized, eager to learn new tools, and comfortable managing your own workload in a fast-paced environment. 

 

As a Financial Analyst, you’ll support U.S. commercial leaders by delivering timely, insightful financial analysis that helps influence decisions, identify opportunities, and drive business performance — all while living the mission and values of Univar. 

 

What you’ll do 

• Conduct routine analytics across sales channels, products, customers and geography to help identify risks/opportunities/actions to increase profitability, speed and win rate for sales team, product management, and BU leadership. 
• Design, standardize and streamline reports using multiple reporting tools including Tableau.
• Evaluate monthly financial results, providing valuable insights and analysis to commercial leaders and drive improvement actions.
• Translate data into timely and meaningful management insights through the right metrics and interpretation.
• Support preparation of weekly, monthly and quarterly forecasts of North America’s financial performance for use with internal management as well as external parties.
• Assist in the development and execution of annual budget.
• Perform special projects to improve process efficiency and performance. 

 

What you’ll need 

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, economics or a comparable Business field, or equivalent professional experience in FP&A.
• 1-2 years with increased scope and responsibility in progressive finance roles preferred. Prior financial experience in chemicals, distribution and related industries is a plus.
• Strong Excel skills, including lookups, sumifs and pivots tables. 
• SQL or Tableau experience.  
• OneStream experience is a plus.
• Strong financial analytics capabilities - able to interpret variances and trends in financial data and identify insights and findings.
• Critical thinking in review of results and problem solving.
• Ability to adapt quickly and learn new tasks independently, while managing competing priorities.
• Highly motivated teammate with positive attitude who embraces change and is a champion for continuous improvement. 

 

Where you’ll work  

This is a hybrid opportunity. You will work 3 days of the week from the offer and 2 days from home. Preference for candidates in Texas.

 

Univar Solutions is a leading, global distributor of chemicals and ingredients essential to the safety, health, and wellbeing of our daily lives from life-saving medicines and vitamins to hand sanitizers and industrial materials used for cleaning, construction, and more.  Our global team of more than 9,500 employees support our vision to redefine distribution and be the most valued chemical and ingredient distributor on the planet!

 

We offer a Total Rewards package that includes market aligned pay and incentives as well as a diverse benefits offering to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.

 

Univar Solutions supports sustainable solutions for the world around us so that we can do our part to help keep our communities healthy, fed, clean, and safe! 

 

We are committed to a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion.  Together, we are building a culture that acknowledges the unique experiences, perspectives and expertise of individuals and provides the development and growth opportunities to empower us to