Manager, Brand Finance-Coleman

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Supports global P&L review with cross functional teams, provide profitability insights to drive profitable growth and mitigate risk.
• Analyzes global results by providing explanations on key P&L drivers for the period vs. forecast, budget and prior year including customer and product volume/mix, trade spend and advertising and promotions.
• Informs monthly forecasts and annual budgets, working closely with Brand Management, Market Development and Planning, and Sales.
• Analyzes proposed advertising, promotional spending and other activation investments with pre- and post-activity ROI analytics to help inform current and future decisions.
• Analyze commercialization and go-to-market activities and control trade rate investment.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to monitor the brand/category marketplace including Newell POS performance, market share, and category growth trends. Recommend actions based upon insights from trends.
• Supports the New Product Development process (Innovation and Renovation) working with cross functional stakeholders including Brand Management, Consumer Insights, Customer Strategy & Planning, Sales, and Operations Finance.
• Develop forecasts, prepare financials, calculate project return metrics, and analyze changes vs. previous updates.
• Optimize portfolio assortment based upon SKU level performance, innovation plans and market trends and recommend enhancements to the assortment.
• Optimize gross margin based upon pricing, mix management, cost improvement and innovation.
• Liaise with Operations Finance to summarize impacts of standard costs and manufacturing variances for historical, current, and future key material costs.
• Identify gaps, and lead improvement projects, partnering with key stakeholders.
• Ensure ongoing governance, control, and compliance with both corporate and external procedures and audits.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field of study.
• 5 or more years of relevant experience with progressively increasing levels of responsibility.
• Consumer goods background preferred with broad based financial acumen (brand, commercial, sales, operations, and FP&A).
• Strong working knowledge of project valuation, volume/price/mix analysis, trade promotions and advertising and promotional spend.
• Strong interpersonal skills, both written and verbal communication.
• Ability to operate with a consumer-focused mindset to partner and collaborate achieving a common goal with cross functional business partners.
• Results driven behavior acting with sense of urgency and with the ability to recommend and make decisions quickly.
• Ability to improve processes and apply continuous improvement-mindset to day-to-day activities.
• Ability to learn new financial information systems and data and to work between various IT systems efficiently and accurately.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to work with a high degree of autonomy.
• Advanced Excel skills, highly analytical and detail oriented.
• Experience with Hyperion (HFM), SAP (ECC) and Power BI.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Hyperion (HFM), SAP (ECC) and Power BI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field of study.