Manager, Strategic Finance & M&A

Job Summary

Responsible for providing financial and strategic thought leadership on a wide variety of critical business initiatives to members of the senior leadership team. Contribute to the financial well-being of the business through direction and application of financial tools and analysis.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities, and Key Accountabilities

• Identifies operational issues, communicates effectively with key internal stakeholders, and collaborates on strategic initiatives.
• Assesses strategic initiatives, including acquisitions and divestitures and supports due diligence. Evaluates capital projects.
• Executes monthly financial reports, interprets results, identifies meaningful variances and trends, summarizes and provides context to senior management. Streamlines and automates reports.
• Coordinates quarterly forecasts and provides input to the annual strategic planning process.
• Stays abreast of relevant trends in North American macroeconomic indicators in Construction, Infrastructure, Multifamily, and Hospitality end-markets; in sell-side analyst expectations for the organization, customers, suppliers, and industry peers; and in financial markets, including interest rates, currency exchange rates, and commodity inflation rates.
• Evaluates and recommends changes to capital structure and cash deployment policies.
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and normalizes disparate data from various internal and external sources to create comprehensive financial models. Formulates clear, relevant, and accurate analysis in a format that facilitates execution.
• Supports assigned functional areas in capital allocation, management reporting, and ad hoc projects.Develops, implements, and refines processes to simplify workflows and increase productivity.

Nature and Scope

• Solutions require analysis and investigation.
• Achieves planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, business principles, and practical experience.
• Manages a group or team of professional individual contributors and/or indirectly supervises support staff.

Work Environment

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Education and Experience

• Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 7+ years of experience in a related field. May require certification. Advanced degree may offset less experience in some disciplines.

Our Goals for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We are committed to creating a culture that promotes equity, respect, and advocacy for every HD Supply associate. We value the diversity of our people.

Equal Employment Opportunity

HD Supply is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.