Senior Analyst, Operations Finance

Description

At The Gorilla Glue Company, we're passionate about building strong brands with our fantastic team of employees. We believe in promoting a culture of excellence that empowers, engages, and connects people. This position a key business partner to the Gorilla North America Operations Finance team and is focused on supporting monthly reporting, forecasting, annual planning, and various financial analysis for manufacturing and supply chain activities. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of being a strong cross-functional collaborator and an innovative, strategic thinker who can build and expand upon tools to quantify the financial impact of Operational results.

What's in it for you?

Thanks to our commitment to creating a supportive and engaged workplace culture, Gorilla Glue has been recognized as a top place to work for 14 years in a row. We offer competitive compensation packages, comprehensive healthcare benefits, and other perks and incentives to ensure our employees feel valued and supported.

Joining the Gorilla Glue family means being part of a team passionate about building strong brands and promoting a culture of excellence. As an employee, you'll be able to help create high-quality products and build brands that people love. Join us in an inspiring workplace where you can belong, grow, and make a difference!

What will your day look like?

• Monthly Cost Analysis – Leverages tools and analytical skills to prepare journal entries for various accounts and quantify variances in Other Cost of Materials (OCOM) within the month and post month-end close.  Weekly tasks including shipping deductions & penalties analysis, intercompany Sales eliminations. Prepare Journal Entries for Asia-Pac business once the region begins shipping directly to customers.  Help develop new analytical capability for price pack architecture to support Supply Chain team in efforts to optimize shipping configurations.

• Financial Reporting – Prepare Cost Review file for input into Global Operations Leadership Team presentation deck for monthly leadership reviews. Run Fixed Overhead responsibility reports in Oracle ERP and distribute to Operational owners.

• Cost Savings – Analyze costs and savings associated with various Engineering, R&D and Sourcing led projects supporting Head of Global Strategic Initiatives.

• Operations and Supply Chain Analysis – Create analytical capability to identify areas of opportunity within Manufacturing and Operations related to production efficiency at machine line level.

Qualifications

What you bring to the table:

Education

• B.S. degree in Finance and/or Accounting

Experience and Background

• 3 years minimum experience within Finance.

• Affiliations with successful manufacturing companies.

• Prior history with planning software such as Oracle EPM preferred

• Prior history advancing reporting with BI applications preferred

Core Competencies / Skills

• Working knowledge of automated accounting systems and well-developed financial analysis capabilities.

• Excellent technical skills (interprets and draws conclusions from financial information; extracts meaning from data by recognizing trends and patterns).

• Extensive experience utilizing Microsoft Office (Excel) and Great Plains.

• Proven strategic problem-solving skills with ability to analyze and solve problems on a timely basis.

• High energy level, comfortable performing multifaceted projects in conjunction with normal activities.

• Strong analytical and reasoning abilities.

• Superior numeric skills.

• Well organized.

• Well-developed interpersonal skills.

• Ability to establish credibility and be decisive; able to recognize and support the organization's preferences and priorities.

• Satisfactory communication skills, written and verbal.

• Results oriented, cost-reduction mentality with the ability to balance other business considerations

Company Values:

Must adhere to The Gorilla Glue Company’s Core Values that ensure everyone works together to exceed expectations.

• Have fun, be passionate and show it!

• Act with integrity and respect in all relationships.

• Communicate openly and appreciate the effort of others.

• Embrace knowledge, growth, and change.

• Strive for excellence in what we do every day!