Job Description:
SENIOR BUSINESS PERFORMANCE ANALYST
Role Overview:
We are looking for an experienced Senior Business Performance Analyst to lead key FP&A activities for the Advanced Materials division across the EMEAI region. You will play a key role in driving financial performance, forecasting, business partnering, and financial oversight of regional non-manufacturing entities. Working closely with the FP&A & Site Controlling Manager, you will act as a trusted finance partner, connecting business activities with their financial impact and providing insights that support strategic and operational decision-making.
This is a highly visible and hands-on role for an experienced finance professional who can operate independently, challenge financial performance, and translate complex business activities into clear financial outcomes.
Do you think you’re the right fit for this opportunity? Apply today!
Role Responsibilities:
As a Senior Business Performance Analyst, you will be responsible for:
- Driving the monthly FP&A cycle, including actual versus forecast analysis, variance investigation, and clear explanation of the business drivers behind results.
- Owning budgeting and forecasting for regional non-manufacturing entities, covering headcount, people costs, and non-people costs.
- Contributing to month-end close activities, ensuring financial data is accurate, complete, and meaningful for management review and decision-making.
- Reviewing financial results and accounting outputs to ensure reported figures are accurate, reasonable, and aligned with business performance.
- Acting as the financial controller for regional non-manufacturing entities, ensuring robust financial oversight, clear performance insights, and effective business support.
- Preparing high-quality financial materials, insights, and management commentary for leadership review.
- Translating business initiatives and organizational changes into their impact on the P&L, working capital, cash flow, forecasts, and accounting processes.
- Taking ownership of day-to-day operational financial challenges in the region, working closely with Shared Services teams to resolve issues, strengthen processes, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Supporting SOX compliance, internal controls, and audit requirements for assigned entities, helping prevent control gaps and financial misstatements.
- Identifying performance gaps, cost opportunities, and efficiency improvements, and helping translate insights into action.
- Supporting working capital and cash performance by analyzing key drivers, identifying improvement opportunities, and partnering with the business to strengthen cash discipline and financial decision-making.
- Strengthening inventory performance insight by supporting finance-led inventory reporting, including roll-forward, absorption, and inventory movement analysis.
Experience and Competencies:
We are looking for an experienced and hands-on finance professional who combines strong FP&A and accounting expertise with a pragmatic, business-oriented mindset. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating independently, challenging financial performance, translating complex business activities into financial outcomes, and building credibility with senior stakeholders across the organization.
What we are looking for:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Several years of experience in FP&A, controlling, audit, or consulting within a manufacturing company in a B2B environment.
- Strong FP&A and accounting background with the ability to assess financial results, investigate variances, and challenge financial data.
- Proven ability to partner with senior business stakeholders and provide financial guidance to support decision-making.
- Fluent English, both written and spoken.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Experience with financial systems and tools such as SAP, TM1/IBM, and Power BI is an advantage.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify issues and drive them through to resolution.
- Ability to translate business activities into financial impact, including P&L, working capital, and cash flow implications.
- Self-driven, hands-on, and proactive approach with a high level of ownership and accountability.
- Confident communicator with the ability to build credibility, influence stakeholders, and challenge assumptions when needed.
What next?
If you would like to join an innovative, collaborative and multicultural team, please apply now. Your application will be forwarded to a Talent Acquisition Partner, who will strive to get back to you as soon as they can. We understand that applying for a new job is a big decision and we will work hard to keep you updated and support you along the way.
About Us:
At Huntsman, we pride ourselves on being a people-oriented organization.
Our family-like atmosphere is cultivated by our diverse groups of team members around the world.
We welcome the talent, experience and fresh ideas that employees at all stages of their careers, from interns to seasoned professionals, bring to Huntsman.
In return, we offer you the opportunity to become an integral part of a dynamic, industry-leading company, where safety and ethics always come first.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field
- Several years of experience in FP&A, controlling, audit, or consulting within a B2B manufacturing company
- Strong FP&A and accounting experience
- Experience assessing financial results, investigating variances, and challenging financial data
- Experience partnering with senior business stakeholders and providing financial guidance
- Fluent English, written and spoken
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with SAP, TM1/IBM, and Power BI
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to translate business activities into P&L, working capital, and cash flow impacts
- Self-driven, hands-on, proactive approach with strong ownership and accountability
- Confident communication and stakeholder-influencing skills
Huntsman Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Huntsman Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Huntsman Corporation.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage (medical/dental/vision) and EAP are consistently described as solid, with multiple plan options cited. Strong health benefits are frequently highlighted as a relative strength in the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with employer contributions and equity through a stock incentive plan, with legacy pension arrangements for some groups. Retirement features are repeatedly referenced as a positive component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and floating days are described as good to very good in many roles. Vacation accrual is said to increase with seniority in some locations.
Huntsman Corporation Insights
What We Do
Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals with 2019 revenues of approximately $7 billion. Our chemical products number in the thousands and are sold worldwide to manufacturers serving a broad and diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets. We operate more than 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within our four distinct business divisions. We view our customers as valued partners. That’s why we believe in a collaborative approach to client relations and work directly with our customers to develop new chemical components that meet their unique needs. Our dedication to our customers is matched only by our dedication to the environment. As part of our commitment to bettering the industry, we strive to operate safe, clean, efficient facilities in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. This means actively seeking opportunities to leverage our resources to assist those in need around the world. It’s all part of our growth-driven approach, which reflects the spirit of free enterprise and is centered on creating mutual benefits for customers, employees, suppliers and the communities where we work.
