Senior Financial Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst, NA Auto

Come make the world and accelerate your success.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of more than 50,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

The Job:  

As a Senior Financial Analyst, NA Auto, you’ll be part of our Industrial Finance team working as a hybrid employee.    You’ll get to:   

• This position is an integral team member of the NA Auto team as we partner with the business for commercial strategic growth and manage the NA Auto P&L. 
• Responsible for best in class FP&A to help manage the financial planning and analysis activities including our operating plan, quarterly forecast development, ongoing outlook performance and business leadership reporting.   
• Provide decision support to the commercial team for developing strategies to drive profitability, process efficiency, and overall business improvement. 
• Support weekly, monthly, quarterly forecasting rhythms including annual budget, month end close process, quarterly forecasts, & weekly latest estimate rhythm.
• Strong focus on understanding and communicating key variances, identifying and implementing tools and models to streamline processes, increase visibility and drive effective decision making.
• Identify and develop tools to automate reporting, provide visibility into key metrics, and drive business performance.
• Insightful reporting and analysis for key decision support in the commercial organization, driving both revenue and margin improvement.

Essential Job Functions

• Own the AR Process and drive enhancements through robust reporting and analytics, building communication paths for proactive management, and partnering across functions in order to improve receivables performance.
• Support the development of a standardized customer profitability management framework to ensure effective customer negotiations & margin management outcomes; Own the pricing giveback process, monthly margin audits, and running ad hoc pricing analyses.
• Ownership of Daily Sales & driving accuracy in weekly LE reporting through order book analyses and proactive investigation of revenue impact drivers and sales S&OP relationships.
• Partner with the S&OP team during the deployment of Next Gen IBP and concurrent support
• Manage SG&A including headcount & resulting spend to meet commercial goals.
• Support financial planning activities by driving majority of close activities, quarterly forecasts, and operating plan.

The Person:  

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good?  In fact, you embrace it. You also have: 

• Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Accounting or Finance.
• Working knowledge of ERP, financial reporting systems, and Oracle Hyperion experience preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint).
• Experience with dashboarding / visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Qlikview, PowerBI).
• Ability to foster a spirit of cooperation and teamwork across a matrixed finance organization.
  • Able to build cross-functional relationships and interact with all levels in the organization
• Work requires professional written and verbal communication.
  • Ability to communicate headwinds / tailwinds and business results in a concise yet thorough manner.
  • Strong analytical skills.
• Results driven individual with emphasis on keeping customer and business commitments.
  • Consistently demonstrates highest level of personal ethical conduct.
  • Demonstrates problem solving skills through implementation and sustaining business processes.
  • Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.

The Details:

You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan including:

• Medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

And More:

We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:

• Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to gro