Senior Finance Manager - FP&A

Job ID: 16408 

Alternate Locations: None 

Newell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands like Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid®, Sharpie® and Yankee Candle® - and 24,000 talented teammates around the world. Our culture is built on values in action: Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership, and Leadership. We work together to win, grow, and make a real impact—supported by a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative environment where you can be your best, every day.

Overview of Position:

The Sr. Manager – FP&A is responsible for providing financial analysis, reporting, and support for the H&C Segment. The Sr. Manager – FP&A will have responsibilities for month-end close, forecasting, budgeting, delivery of analytical insights, and SOX compliance reporting for the segment. This position will continuously identify opportunities to improve processes and efficiently navigate financial systems and tools to provide timely and accurate financial information. This position will collaborate across finance, regional, and segment leadership, and partner with the business to provide insights, manage risks and opportunities, and tell the performance story for the H&C Segment.

Key Competencies:

• Business Acumen
  • Ability to contribute to short-, medium-, and long-term business plans
  • Understanding how the Finance role, team goals, and daily activities fit into the H&C strategy
  • Stays abreast of industry trends and focuses on how these trends can influence and support strategy
  • Conducts or oversees assigned projects
  • Advises business partners and forms recommendations with minimal coaching
  • Understands implications to the business and customer of key decisions
  • Prioritizes mission-critical from less important work activities within the immediate finance team
  • Reviews and provide feedback on key deliverables from other finance team members

• Financial Acumen
  • Proficient understanding of US GAAP and accounting policies and how to apply these standards to business transactions
  • Leads the development, management, and execution of accurate, insightful, proactive, and timely analysis and reporting
  • Serves as financial subject matter expert to business partners in matters of accounting, forecasting, reporting, and budgeting
  • Knowledge of and ability to quickly read, interpret, and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material
  • Translates complex business concepts into financial outcomes, makes connections, identifies financial risks/opportunities, and provides recommendations to H&C segment leadership

• Relationship Management
  • Collaborates across finance
  • Builds trusting business partnerships
  • Demonstrates self-Sr. Managership and pursues self-development
  • Ability to influence without authority
  • Demonstrate a willingness to challenge, debate, and find resolutions
  • The ability to quickly address problems, find common ground, and persevere through complex assignments
  • Hires, trains, develops, and empowers the talent necessary to achieve team and H&C objectives (specifically Finance Managers and Analysts)
  • Sets and communicates goals, measures accomplishments, and celebrates success
  • The ability to proactively take on all issues, challenges, and people, including the anticipation, confrontation, and resolution of conflict
  • The ability to influence others and gain acceptance of ideas at all levels of the organization; knows how to relate effectively with leadership

• Problem Solving
  • Operates independently and effectively despite ambiguity, with moderate guidance
  • Identifies problems and develops effective and innovative solutions that address root causes
  • Defines solutions and alternatives to anticipate, prevent, and resolve problems
  • Recognizes the broader implications of decisions and takes them into consideration when solving problems
  • Is well organized, resourceful, and planful; lays out tasks in sufficient detail to mark the trail, can work on multiple tasks at once without losing track; plans around obstacles
  • Not afraid to initiate action before all the facts are known
  • Foresees and removes obstacles
  • Develops new and unique ideas; looks beyond the initial obvious answer and questions conventional approaches
  • Integrates information and concepts between different functions to generate a single performance narrative

• Analytics and Insights
  • Identifies opportunities to improve processes in forecasting, planning, reporting, and analysis
  • Analyzes issues from multiple perspectives, recognizes relevant information in seemingly disparate data sources
  • The ability to quickly learn and embrace new methods and technologies (e.g. data visualization)
  • The ability to process large quantities of information while balancing speed and accuracy
  • The ability to effectively use analysis tools and techniques
  • The ability to identify and interpret advanced patterns, trends, and relationships from complex data

• Communication
  • Delivers insights that are tailored to the recipient and effectively communicate the right message, at the right time for action to occur
  • Ability to concisely and confidently convey information and implications; ability to successfully defend findings
  • The ability to empathize with a wide variety of people of diverse backgrounds, opinions, and experiences
  • Listens carefully to other viewpoints and asks relevant questions
  • Communicates summaries and key takeaways from detailed analyses and meetings
  • Conveys a concise, comprehensive, and compelling message, engages an audience, and adapts messages, delivery, and point-of-view based on the audience's real-time or anticipated reactions
  • Takes a win-win approach to debate and decision-making by critically examining one's own position, the use of active listening techniques to surface problems and interests, and a focus on issues rather than personalities

Education/ Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or similar disciplines plus 10+ years’ relevant work experience OR
• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, CPA, CFA, MSc, MACC) plus 9+ years’ relevant work experience
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and business modeling tools with ability to learn Oracle/Hyperion, SAP, and other necessary financial systems

Responsibilities:

• Accounting, Month-end Close and Reporting
• Month-end close processes including booking journal entries
• Coordinate and review quarterly questionnaires and SOX certifications for the Segment
• Utilize Hyperion to develop and improve reporting 
• Lead the preparation of presentations for Ops Reviews, Forecast Reviews, Budget Reviews, and any other needs as requested
• Forecasting & Budgeting
• Lead forecasting and budgeting processes for the Segment
• Lead the Quarterly (QBR) process
• Forecast and budget balance sheet and related cash flow impacts
• Identify and track risks and opportunities
• Assist in preparation of the financial long range plan and associated strategy update deck
• Business Partnership and Analytical Insights
• Provide analytics and visual insights that allow the business to make decisions
• Partner across Finance to drive alignment on risks and opportunities to understand impacts to the forecast
• Other Responsibilities
• Coordinate internal and external audit requests and serve as key contact to auditors
• Improve and sustain processes
• Complete other ad hoc analysis and projects as needed

Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments. Newell Brands and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers and comply with applicable employment laws. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled are encouraged to apply.