Senior Sales Finance Analyst
Edgewell Personal Care
- Shelton, CT
- $76,000-114,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- This role will be a strong partner to the sales Directors and broader sales team to help monitor sales forecasts, develop customer P&L, track, evaluate and optimize trade activity. In addition, this the Sr. Sales Analyst will have close ties to several BU’s and align on overall deflator and sales management
- In this role you will be expected to deliver timely, relevant, and accurate analysis that leads to efficient and effective commercial processes. Championing day to day process simplification efforts is also a critical expectation for this role.
- Provide financial planning and analysis support to channel teams
- Support the development of product and customer P&Ls from sales to contribution margin and use variance analysis to identify areas to optimize sales and gross margin
- Lead monthly trade reviews with the sales team in alignment with audit controls, also performing monthly accounting entries for the trade accrual
- Work closely with the Plato team to ensure event creation is accurate and ties to OLT. All audit requirements should be followed.
- Review and interpret monthly results and projections, including risks and opportunities with appropriate business partners and finance management
- Support the tools and processes intended to drive improved return on investment related to deflator investments
- Additional accountabilities include approval of promotional activity, preparation of adjusting entries, reconciliation of accrual accounts
- Provide input/support for the Annual Business Plan and monthly forecasts
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- 5-6 years of financial analytical experience
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel and Power Point
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external business partners
- Strong analytical and problem-resolution skills
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced and changing environment
- Time management skills and the ability to prioritize based on business strategies and objectives
- Hyperion Planning and SAP (or other ERP) experience
- Experience in the CPG industry preferred
- Additional degrees of certifications preferred e.g. MBA, CPA, CMA
- Build relationships
- Invest in our people
- Celebrate and include
- Contribute to our communities
- Builds authentic working relationship with Brand and Sales managers/analyst
- Celebrates and include others
- Contributes to creating a positive team environment
- Try, create and learn
- Be decisive
- Bounces back and learns from mistakes made
- Takes responsibility and accountability for making timely decisions
- Fosters an environment where their team feels comfortable taking risks, even if they fail
- Say it straight
- Listen to understand
- Gives honest and open feedback
- Encourages others to openly share and strive to fully understand what others are saying
- Get it done
- Do it together
- Being self-motivated to get things done
- Holds self-accountable for personal, team and organizational performance goals
- Closely collaborates with a cross functional commercial team which requires some work hour flexibility
- Hybrid work envrionment aligned with function guidelines