Associate Finance Manager - Distribution

Associate Finance Manager - Distribution

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. It starts with YOU. 

The Distribution Associate Finance Manager will play a critical role in managing and optimizing the financial performance of the NA Distribution business unit. This role is responsible for leading key financial processes including forecasting, planning, and variance analysis, while also managing financial tools and systems. A strong advocate for LEAN methodologies, the manager will identify and implement cost-saving initiatives and operational efficiencies to enhance overall business performance.

In this role, you will:

• Forecasting and Planning: Lead the monthly NA Distribution forecast, budget, and strategic planning cycles. Integrate inputs from cross-functional teams to develop accurate, driver-based forecasts. Ensure timely and transparent communication of financial outlooks to all key stakeholders.

• Variance Analysis: Conduct monthly reconciliation of actual results against forecasts and plans, leveraging key performance metrics to explain variances. Proactively identify opportunities to improve forecast accuracy and drive accountability.

• Financial Analysis: Provide accurate analysis as a subject matter expert to various leaders and stakeholders across the organization. This includes analysis for capital projects, Project Evaluation and Review of Learning (PEARL) analyses, lease vs. buy scenarios, distribution impacts for new product launches, and other ad hoc analyses upon request.

• Anaplan Tool Management: Partner with the Anaplan Center of Excellence to maintain and enhance the Anaplan platform, ensuring it effectively supports FP&A cycles and enables scalable, efficient planning processes.

• Controls & Compliance: Collaborate with the Supply Chain Accounting team to uphold robust financial and operational controls. Support internal control requests and ensure compliance with corporate governance standards.

• Capability Building: Deliver targeted training to Operations and Finance partners to elevate Distribution financial acumen and foster a culture of continuous learning and collaboration.

• Cost Saving Transformation: Actively contribute to North America cost transformation initiatives by identifying, evaluating, and executing Distribution cost-saving opportunities. Develop compelling business cases, monitor financial trends, and communicate impacts with clarity and influence.

• LEAN Practices: Champion LEAN principles to eliminate waste and enhance process efficiency. Drive simplification, standardization, and automation across financial systems and workflows.

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.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

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: