Role Purpose
The FP&A Manager will play a critical role in partnering with the business units to drive financial processes. This role will contribute to all FP&A activities including month-end close, reporting and analysis, rolling forecast, Annual Operating Plan (AOP), and the multi-year Long-Range Plan (LRP). You'll also lead financial modeling for new investments on an ad-hoc basis and manage 1-2 direct reports, while indirectly manage other analysts on the team.
This is an exciting opportunity for strategic thinker who thrives in a collaborative, global environment. You will identify process improvements, navigate through financial information systems, and simplify information to create clear outputs to support decision-making, and propose corrective actions as necessary.
What You'll Do
- Ensure the integrity of the month-end close process for projects, manage expense accruals, confirm proper accounting treatment between capital and expense, process any reclasses, and interact closely with the shared services center and procurement to maintain accurate financials.
- Maintain internal controls, GAAP compliant environment: address all audit requests timely and appropriately, perform reconciliations to test adherence, raise due diligence items as needed.
- Support monthly forecast, AOP, and LRP processes for the assigned Global Functions. Coordinate and complete updates in financial systems (OneStream, SAP).
- Analyze variances vs. forecast, budget, and prior year. Highlight trends and identify corrective actions and/or opportunities for cost containment. Help drive accountability of the cost center managers through frequent interaction and review of spend to date as well as forecast. Track cost savings throughout the lifecycle of each initiative.
- Provide financial and decision support to Function leaders and maintain excellent relationships with leadership team members to continuously improve support and service level.
- Assist in preparing all Investment Committee (IC) review packages for projects requiring IC level approval establish project financials, validate business cases, and prepare executive summary.
- Lead and develop direct reports: delegate tasks, set priorities, coach for growth and foster a high-performance culture.
- Identify and implement improvements across all financial processes, focusing on process automation and other repeatable, scalable efficiency efforts.
- Develop and implement Power BI reports and other automated financial tools to provide Global Functions leadership teams with additional insights that better inform decision making.
- Actively problem solves to develop analytical approaches to answer queries in a timely manner.
Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field required; CPA, CMA, or MBA preferred
- 7+ years of work experience, preferably in a multi-national, manufacturing setting
- In depth understanding of products and margin performance of a manufacturing business
- Prior management experience leading a team.
- Experienced user of financial software such as SAP, BIA / B4P / HANA, and OneStream (or similar, e.g., Hyperion)
- Strong modelling skills using Excel, VBA, or Power Query. Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI is a plus.
What You'll Bring
- Solid knowledge of business concepts, accounting principles, and strong analytical skills.
- Flexible, patient, and highly pragmatic with the ability to reprioritize quickly.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes, and recommend solutions. Always focused on achieving outcomes.
- Detail-oriented and able to multi-task under pressure. Mentally resilient to endure challenges associated with fluid and demanding environments where priorities evolve constantly.
- Energetic, positive, and collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal and team building skills. Desire to be a leader and to develop direct reports through growth opportunities and mentorship.
- Advanced level English language skills (conversational & written).
- Ability to organize, manage and prioritize work for self, direct reports, and associated non-financial business partners. Able to work with and coach a diverse team effectively.
- Entrepreneurial spirit who continuously thinks about how to work more efficiently / automate processes and proactively puts these ideas into practice.
- Effective, clear, and concise written and verbal communication skills. Comfortable communicating across all levels of the organization.
Why Work at Sealed Air
We have a very diverse and inclusive culture.
Our over 16K employees are located in over 56 countries and territories globally, representing a broad diversity of cultures, languages, ethnicities, genders, and races.
We continuously strive to improve our workplace diversity in many ways and to understand and ultimately achieve a supportive, inclusive culture across the globe.
We are invested in developing our people.
Sealed Air invests in the development of its people through a number of initiatives such as an online learning portal, role-specific technical skills training, management and leadership training, executive succession planning, tuition reimbursement benefits, and early career rotation programs.
If you are a motivated talent looking for a new career journey, then we want to hear from you!
