Senior Financial Analyst

• SCHEDULE: Monday-Friday approximately 40+ hours a week
• BENEFITS: This position is full-time benefit eligible, elective benefits include:
  • Medical, dental, hearing and vision insurance.
  • Marathon Health Clinic - a premier on-site healthcare provider. A separate entity from Herr's, located at our Nottingham, PA facility. This facility ensures easy access to tailored healthcare services, preventative care, wellness programs, for employees on any medical plan
  • Opportunity to contribute to a 401k with a generous Company Match Program, Annual Company Profit Sharing
  • Paid vacation, holiday and sick time.
  • Paid Employee referral program.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze actual costs against budget, forecast, and historical performance.
• Understand, validate and challenge the financial performance of various segments
• Perform research, explain variances, and offer recommendations for improvement in metrics, efficiency, and cost savings
• Build and maintain budgets at multiple levels ranging from departmental to business unit to operational divisions, adhering to the strategy determined by executive management
• Monitor trends in relevant markets as well as the emerging environment to which Herrs has an interest and communicate findings to management
• Summarize analysis, proposals, and conclusions in succinct presentations for use by management
• Key player in annual budget process, and ongoing forecast with comparison of results, KPIs, and industry benchmarks
• Performs periodic cost reconciliation reports, tracking data such as labor, and supply costs
• Take a proactive role in the development of new reporting formats that drive decision support. Make sure reporting is contemporary, flexible to meet organizational changes
• Support and participate in ad-hoc requests as well as special project work related to the job.

• Assist Finance Manager throughout the monthly Integrated Business Planning
• Prepare and support monthly KPI reporting needs
• Assist the budgeting, planning and forecasting processes utilizing the functionality of financial software. Design and maintain reports
• Analyzes trends in key metrics and drivers to facilitate the monthly review of actual financial results compared to the budgets and forecast at multiple levels

• Effectively fields questions, discuss financial issues, explain analysis and support financial tracking of key projects with a wide range of audiences with varying levels
• Professionally communicate, collaborate, and persuade with a positive and productive disposition in a complex environment with a focus on customer service
• Develops and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external customers and works proactively to identify and solve problems
• Collaborates and shares knowledge across all areas of accounting and finance

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or accounting, and 3-7 years’ financial analysis experience required
• Strong understanding of the value and application of financial analytics within an organization with the drive and ability to lead change using people, process, data and technology
• Intellectually curious, desire to be on the cutting edge, inquisitive, continuous learner.
• Experience in Manufacturing and/or Consumer Package Goods company is preferred.
• Experience in Standard Costing is preferred.
• Proven ability to develop models to analyze and make recommendations regarding the business
• Ability to break down problems into meaningful parts and come to rational and well-thought-out conclusion and communicate them to a diverse audience
• Ability to gather data from disparate sources, analyze findings and present to make sound business decisions.
• Formidable business acumen, and Financial Acumen
• Comfortable with ambiguity; can handle the unexpected with flexibility.
• A team player who favors collaborative approaches when working with partners.
• Experience working in Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP, or another similar ERP
• Experience in reporting and analytical tools, such as Power BI, and Silvon.