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Job Description
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As a Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst, you will primarily focus on developing business intelligence and reporting to allow for strategic decision-making by the senior leaders of the business. Additionally, you will assist with PLP-USA sales and marketing matters and forecasts. There will be significant interaction with the finance and leadership teams of the PLP-USA operations as well as the U.S. based Corporate Finance Team.
Duties & Responsibilities :
- Assist with the preparation of the PLP-USA sales plan as well as the global annual plan and quarterly forecast update.
- Administer the representative commission database including updating manufacturer representatives, and terms and conditions as well as calculating split commissions.
- Administer the distribution growth incentive and volume rebate analyses – perform calculations and report results to key management personnel periodically.
- Perform additional analysis and reporting of sales, margin and period expenses.
- Partner with the Assistant Corporate Controller and Director of IT with ownership of the customer data warehouse, including generating reporting with Power BI and other tools.
- Partner with the sales and marketing team to evaluate the need for price increases at the customer and part level. Assist with price adjustments in the master data file.
- Perform ad hoc financial analysis as directed by the Assistant Corporate Controller, leveraging PLP’s financial consolidation system and data warehouses via Power BI.
- Evaluate regional and subsidiary financial performance with a focus on achievement of annual plan results, month-over-month and year-over-year performance and internal / external peer group analysis.
- Participate in review and understanding of margin performance at the product and customer level, assist with recommendations on margin improvement activities.
- Collaborate with other PLP team members on continuous improvement activities aimed at improving the financial performance of the PLP global subsidiaries.
- Provide detailed business intelligence and presentations to Senior Management, allowing them to measure progress against the forecasts and prior year results.
- Prepare precise analyses to support external filings (e.g., quarterly earnings releases, investor presentations as well as 10-K and 10-Q disclosures).
- Contribute to departmental goals through participation in special projects and training.
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