Position Summary:

The Finance Division Lead directs, develops, plans and evaluates company financial plans and policies in budget, financial analysis and corporate planning for assigned divisions.  Provides financial insight and decision support for the divisional leadership team on all financial and operational matters, including but not limited to evaluating customer profitability, analyzing sales and margin results, and reviewing operational efficiencies / expense trends.

What you will do:

Provides financial leadership to assigned division; develops financial acumen of the divisional leadership and their teams

Creates profitability and predictive models based on sales input and evaluates post-onboarding customer profitability via lookback reviews and implementation of action steps

Leads and facilitates the LRP/AOP/Forecast processes for the division

Performs month-end review process, including:

Leading month-end presentations for senior teams

Preparing and inputting month-end comments into financial reporting

Reviewing expense results and trends with operational leadership

Prepares sales, margin, and cost input for the re-forecast process.

Analyzes and provides insights on the behavior of various sales, margin, product loss, expense, and inventory accounts

Collaborates and partners with Home Office Operational Finance team, leveraging this group for reporting, analytics, and best practices to be utilized and shared across the business unit while avoiding duplication of efforts

Leads and participates in action teams/councils, key strategic initiatives and special projects. Analyzes and makes recommendations to management regarding cost saving or profit generating opportunities and profitability improvement strategies.

Supports capital process by compiling data for capital requests and assisting with capital investment impact analysis.

Participates in divisional leadership team meetings and leads financial reviews with the team

Provides key financial and operational information to assist divisional leadership in decision making

Mentors analysts within the team or divisional team members to support their development and/or financial acumen

Performs other duties as assigned.