The Senior Financial Analyst supports the financial and operational performance and strategic business decisions for our manufacturing sites. This individual will provide supply chain finance leadership to one of the Ecolab North America plants. This role reports into a Sr. Finance Manager of Manufacturing and is part of a team supporting multiple facilities.
The North America manufacturing team consists of 27 plants representing $600M in annual spend and key priorities include safety, quality, maintaining strong service levels to our customers, and driving productivity improvements.
Main Responsibilities
- Drive financial performance management, including monthly closing, adhoc reporting/analytics, monthly forecasts, and annual budgets
- Leverage new reporting and forecasting tools to provide new insights and create efficiencies in existing processes
- Prepare cost accounting analysis and maintain strong internal financial controls, ensuring compliance with SOX requirements
- Lead annual standard costing updates for the site
- Identify savings opportunities and return on investment, improve financial processes through automation and redesign
- Partner with other Supply Chain teams across North America
- Support capital investments to ensure appropriate return on investments
- Support building a TPM Loss reduction culture that drives financial accountability and ownership throughout all levels of the organization
What You Will Do
- Act as a Financial Business Partner focused on driving strong financial acumen and decision support that results in financial metric improvement and profitable growth. Key business partners will be the plant manager and other plant leaderships
- Drive tools and analytics locally to help business partners with areas of opportunity to improve costs and understand how projects/actions translate financially
- Maintain a culture focused on policy adherence and financial controls to ensure appropriate monitoring of operations financially. Assure policies are being followed in accordance with SOX, GAAP, and Corporate Policy
- Manage all accounting procedures related to operations (e.g., G/L maintenance, accruals, expense charge-off, journal entry preparation, payroll processing, capital equipment authorization, asset management, and inventory control including inventory reconciliations)
- Support network-wide improvements by leading standard work and process development across the North America network focused on simplification and efficiency with leveraging shared services, consistent analytical tools, and metrics
Position Details
- This position will have a seat in the Naperville, IL office with weekly onsite work expectations at the Bedford Park, IL plant location
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
- 3 years of experience in finance and/or accounting
- Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA, CPA, CMA
- 2 years of experience in a manufacturing environment
- 2 years of experience in cost accounting
- Proficiency in SAP, PowerBI, Hyperion, Blackline
- TPM/Lean/Six Sigma knowledge and Green or Black Belt certification
- Strong change management skill set and leadership capability
- Strong understanding of accounting concepts and practices
- Demonstrated ability to drive financial performance, influence management, and lead change
- Demonstrated history of process improvement, project management, and critical thinking.
- Strong agility in learning and operating in system/data environments to drive efficiency in process and decision support
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office tools including Excel and PowerPoint
Annual or Hourly Compensation Range
Benefits
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Potential Customer Requirements Notice
To meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations, applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to:
- Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
- At least 3 years of experience in finance and/or accounting
- MBA, CPA, or CMA
- At least 2 years of experience in a manufacturing environment
- At least 2 years of experience in cost accounting
- Proficiency in SAP, Power BI, Hyperion, and BlackLine
- TPM, Lean, or Six Sigma knowledge and Green or Black Belt certification
- Strong change management and leadership capabilities
- Strong understanding of accounting concepts and practices
- Ability to drive financial performance, influence management, and lead change
- Experience with process improvement, project management, and critical thinking
- Ability to operate in system and data environments to improve processes and decision support
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint
Ecolab Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests the company provides strong retirement programs, including a 401(k) with employer matching and a pension, alongside options like an employee stock purchase plan. Offerings such as retiree healthcare benefits and diverse investment choices reinforce long-term financial support.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests medical coverage is broad, with HSA plan options and company contributions, prescription benefits, dental and vision, and virtual care and mental health support. Company-paid wellness programs and income protection (short- and long-term disability, life and accident) further strengthen core coverage.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-focused programs include fertility support, adoption assistance, and paid parental leave, complemented by counseling and resource services. These offerings are positioned as supportive of employee well-being across different life stages.
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What We Do
A trusted partner at nearly three million customer locations, Ecolab (ECL) is the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services. With annual sales of $12 billion and more than 44,000 associates, Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions, data-driven insights and personalized service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. For more Ecolab news and information, visit www.ecolab.com, or follow us on twitter.com/ecolab, facebook.com/ecolab or instagram.com/ecolab_inc.
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