Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

About Us

Founded in 1872, Kimberly-Clark (NASDAQ: KMB) is a global Fortune 200 consumer packaged goods (CPG) company with 38,000 employees and annual revenues of $16.4B. Kimberly-Clark (K-C) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for over a billion people in more than 175 countries. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people’s most essential needs, we create products that help individuals experience more of what’s important to them.

Our portfolio of iconic brands, including Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional® hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share position in 70 countries. Sustainability is at the center of our company and we understand our responsibility to make a positive contribution to the people we serve around the globe. We focus on the areas where we can make the biggest difference – climate, forests, water, and plastics.

After celebrating our 150-year anniversary, K-C is in the midst of an exciting transformation from a category-based business to a consumer-led growth platform. Leveraging our purpose-led, performance driven culture, the company continues to drive growth, fueled by category-defining innovation as we live out our purpose of Better Care for a Better World.

At K-C, treating individuals with respect is the way we do business and the way we lead our industry and our world. We’re building an organization that looks and thinks like our customers around the world and searching for talented people with different perspectives and varied backgrounds. At K-C, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis (VP FP&A) leads a central team responsible for enterprise-wide financial planning processes and results. This includes establishing planning process, timelines, targets, and requirements across strategic planning, quarterly and annual planning processes. The FP&A team also serves as financial partner to the global supply chain team, overhead functions/SG&A, and as the financial leader for the K-C transformation.

The VP FP&A will play a key role leading the assessment of enterprise plans and business plan performance, including risks and opportunities, as well as recommending actions to identify value creation opportunities and improve business outcomes. Responsibilities also include leadership for routine and ad hoc enterprise analytical support to facilitate executive team decision making, and support for CFO communications to the Board of Directors on business plans and business performance. The VP FP&A will also be a key partner to the Investor Relations team, supporting analysis and insights to inform ongoing investor communications.

Role & Responsibilities

The VP FP&A plays a critical role in driving the financial health and success of the organization. This executive will lead and manage the enterprise FP&A framework, business planning processes (strategic planning, annual planning, capital planning and forecasting), and global analytics tools across Kimberly-Clark’s businesses and functions to deliver strong, risk-balanced, plans for sustained business growth.

The VP FP&A will partner with key leadership including the Chief Financial Officer and the finance leadership team; business segment leaders and their finance leaders; the executive leadership team comprised of the CEO and direct reports; and segment FP&A teams. The VP FP&A will drive and lead continuous process improvement, effective governance and clarity of planning requirements and guidance, and highly effective communication and coordination across a global matrix organization.  Further, this leader will provide forward leaning and insightful analytics that enable enterprise portfolio decisions and pressure testing of plans, while also highlighting value creating opportunities and decisions that fuel profitable business growth.

Additionally, the VP FP&A will:

• Lead the annual budgeting and forecasting process, working closely with segment leaders to develop accurate and achievable financial targets

• Analyze financial performance and key metrics to identify trends, opportunities, and risks

• Serve as the finance leader and primary partner to the global supply chain organization, overseeing financial planning, cost management, and performance optimization across a major spend area

• Provide financial leadership for corporate functions/SG&A, partnering with global functional leaders to drive disciplined cost management, resource allocation, and productivity initiatives

• Lead financial oversight of enterprise transformation initiatives

• Drive cross-functional alignment across supply chain, commercial, and corporate teams, ensuring consistency of target, and execution against enterprise priorities

• Provide financial support and analysis for strategic initiatives, such as M&A, new product launches or expansion

• Provide insights and recommendations to senior management based on financial analysis

• Manage financial reporting processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of financial data

• Monitor and analyze financial results compared to budget and forecast, and communicate variances to executive leadership

• Stay current on industry trends and best practices in financial planning and analysis

• Maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboards to track and monitor financial performance

• Collaborate with external auditors and regulatory agencies to ensure compliance with financial reporting requirements

• Participate in investor relations activities, such as preparing financial presentations and analysis for earnings calls or investor meetings

• Lead, mentor and inspire followership of a high performing global FP&A team

Professional Skills & Qualifications

The VP FP&A has the proven ability to partner with the CEO, CFO and executive leadership to deliver on the financial goals of the company. This individual must possess strong leadership skills, a strategic mindset, and a deep understanding of financial principles and best practices to effectively guide the company's financial planning and analysis efforts. The VP FP&A will possess strong business acumen coupled with financial prowess to engage with segment leaders and their financial teams, globally. More specifically, the VP FPA will have:

• 20+ years of experience, and greater than half in a multinational/global business, with several years of experience in a leadership position in a complex, progressive, global planning and analysis environment

• Strong experience in CPG or closely related industry segments

• Proven ability to lead the FP&A function globally with demonstrated financial, analytical, and process leadership competence to support enterprise-wide strategic planning and decision making

• Global FP&A leadership experience combined with a Business Unit CFO role

• Transformational leadership experience and ability to lead finance for overhead and global functions (including supply chain)

• High degree of demonstrated financial, analytical and process leadership competence – ability to understand data to drive RGM initiatives

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, and the ability to effectively communicate complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities

• Proven strategic agility, critical thinking, problem-solving and change management skills

• Strong interpersonal and leadership qualities developing high-performing financial teams

Education:

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field; MBA or CPA preferred

Location

The Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis will be based in Dallas, TX

Kimberly-Clark Ways of Working

• Focus on Consumers. We keep the needs of customers and consumers at the center of our work. Building strong customer relationships and delivering consumer-centric solutions. Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies that delight our consumers.

• Play to Win. We aim high, measure our results, and live our values because winning with integrity matters. Setting aggressive goals and consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances. Pushing past status quo to create new and better ways to solve problems and win.

• Move Fast. We turn decisions into action, remove barriers and seek progress over perfection. Stepping up to champion ideas, address difficult issues and say what needs to be said. Tackling challenges with a sense of urgency, seizing new opportunities, and scaling winning solutions.

• Grow our People. We champion inclusion and encourage our people to ideate, innovate and contribute to their growth. Encouraging diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds that enable our winning culture. Placing a high priority on developing self and others to meet career goals and the organization’s goals.

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

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Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.

Kimberly-Clark will support global relocation for the chosen candidate for the role, including assistance to obtain proper work authorization. The benefits provided will be per the terms of Kimberly-Clark’s applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will be decided at Kimberly-Clark’s sole discretion.