Position Summary:
Vallen's FP&A Manager is an individual contributor responsible for performing financial budgeting, forecasting/planning, reporting and analysis to support impactful decisions of the leadership teams. They fulfil a key role in creating financial models to help improve the company's financial performance, accelerate its growth, and drive decision making processes.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Monitor, analyze and report actual performance against budget/forecast/PY.
- Develop and prepare thoughtful matrices and reports for operations and regions.
- Prepare monthly reporting packages.
- Provide pro-active support to business leaders following distribution of monthly results.
- Assist business leaders in deep dive review of operational areas.
- Develop and direct profitable growth-driven reporting through advanced analytics.
- Assist business leadership in developing 3-5-year strategy to deliver EBIT performance.
- Develop analytics to drive gross margin improvement through customer, vendor, and product insights
- Assist leadership in developing financial forecasting and impact assessment when developing structure strategies for the business.
- Prepare capex/business cases; control business cases and prepare post investment review.
- Facilitate budgeting and forecasting process on a total company level.
- Lead special project analysis as required.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Job Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting coupled with 7-10 years of financial analysis experience.
Other relevant experience includes:
- MBA, CMA preferred
- Experience with distribution companies and/or manufacturing preferred.
- Demonstration of strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Executive presence to interact with all levels within the organization
- Strong planning, organizational and execution skills
- Excellent MS-Excel and PowerPoint
Work Environment & Physical Demands:
Reasonable accommodations will be evaluated and may be implemented to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.
- Long periods of time working on a computer and performing repetitive key-boarding activities.
- Long periods of time performing work over the phone and participating in group conference calls.
- Specific vision abilities are required by this job and include close vision, the ability to adjust focus, and the ability to distinguish color on computer monitors.
- Frequently required to sit and/or stand.
- Frequently required to speak/present in front of others.
- May be required to occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
- The work environment is generally favorable. Lighting and temperature are adequate and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting
- 7-10 years of financial analysis experience
- MBA
- Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
- Experience with distribution companies and/or manufacturing
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Executive presence and ability to interact with all organizational levels
- Strong planning, organizational, and execution skills
- Excellent Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
What We Do
Vallen is a leading provider of indirect industrial supplies—all those materials that are not part of the products our customers manufacture. From earplugs to specialty tools, to abrasives and cutting tools, we cover the vast majority of our customers’ maintenance, repair, operations and production-related needs. Vallen is also a leader in safety services with offerings that include equipment inspection, maintenance, certification and solution design. Many of our customers look to us for integrated supply solutions and vendor-managed inventory, with Vallen associates on-site, bringing local knowledge and expertise to the specific needs of individual facilities.
