Ecolab is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst for its Downstream Division Commercial Finance Organization, based in Houston, TX. This role involves providing comprehensive financial support to the Downstream Division Sales teams, including gaining insight into various customer programs, and serving as a finance partner to sales leaders managing Corporate and Street accounts. The position plays a pivotal role in driving sales growth and ensuring business profitability. The selected candidate will collaborate closely with colleagues across sales, legal, marketing, supply chain, and other internal departments to facilitate deal structuring, price adjustments, account profit improvement initiatives, contract administration, as well as additional projects and ad-hoc reporting requirements.
Hybrid: Onsite 3 days / week – Houston, TX
What You Will Do
- Collaborate with senior sales leaders, marketing, and supply chain to deliver financial support in commercial areas such as deal analysis, contract and incentive negotiation, profit improvement, and pricing strategy.
- Perform comprehensive pricing analysis, encompassing activities such as contractual price adjustments, hardship justifications, scenario modeling, and development of negotiation strategies.
- Monitor commercial terms and incentives, ensure contract compliance, and strive to optimize terms.
- Analyze large datasets to generate insights, guide decisions, and track strategy results.
- Collaborate with other departments on initiatives aimed at establishing new processes, improving capabilities, and supporting business operations.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related discipline
- 4 years of finance experience
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial statements, and economic analysis.
- No immigration sponsorship offered for this position.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in Pricing, Deal Management, and Business Partnership
- Strong written and verbal communication across management levels.
- Diligent, collaborative, and skilled at managing priorities.
- Adaptable to ambiguity; independent and accountable.
- Results-driven, proactive, and committed to integrity.
- Proficient in SAP, Access, MS Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Excellent analytical and organizational abilities.
- Experienced with financial data and reporting systems.
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.
- Be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, including a booster if eligible, unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab.
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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.
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