Financial Planning Sr. Analyst

**Job ID**:1909

**Alternate Locations**:
Newell Brands is a leading $8.3B consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands such as Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid® and Sharpie®, and 25,000 talented employees around the world. Our high-performance culture, unparalleled curiosity about the world around us, and talented people fuel our success. Our culture is enabled through our core values which guide all we do and how we win as One Newell. They are Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership & Leadership.

This position will support month-end, quarter-end and year-end financial closing processes and will be responsible for budgeting and forecasting all A&P, SG&A functions and balance sheet. Control and financial reporting for SG&A and Free Cash Flow for all Colombia business units.

**Responsibilities**:

- Meet with Sales, Marketing, Customer marketing, HR, Finance (GBS), Real State, Legal, and all corporate functions teams on a regular basis to review tracking towards estimate, variance analysis versus Prior Year, Budget, and LE, and all program accruals and promotions. Present Quarterly business review deep dive of KPIs.
- Perform annual budgeting and monthly forecasting for the areas under his/her responsibility maintaining a comprehensive understanding of assumptions underlying estimates as well as opportunities, risks and mitigation plans.
- Responsible for a timely and accurate monthly close and reporting rhythm, performance evaluation and results reporting to Local and Regional leadership teams.
- Perform ad-hoc financial analysis upon request that is meaningful and impactful.
- Develop models and reports to enable commercial/operational tracking including reporting and recommending improvement opportunities. (ex, Selling control, HR control, Sales planning control)
- Work in permanent alignment with multi-functional teams acting as the Finance leader for divisions/regions under his/her responsibility.
- Upload Overheads, and Balance Sheet for forecast revisions in a timely manner, ensuring forecast accuracy with input from Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain.
- Manage Budget/AOP planning, including but not limited gathering input for SG&A lines, inventory forecasts, and completion of budget decks.
- Support the accounting and reconciliation of A&P, Selling, and Customer marketing.
- Maintain A&P tracking template to ensure the accuracy of accruals/estimates.
- Approve trade marketing expenses.
- Lead all merchandiser process and contabilization.
- Perform OAR, RAR or CAR analysis for approval if needed.
- Lead financial control for the main working capital lines which include DSO, DIO, DPO and Customer Accruals.
- Develop Proposals to reduce cash conversion cycle of the total company.
- Elaborate the business cases for special payment terms for different BTS seasons n Writing Business.
- Work with GBS (AR team) in de cash discounts plans for the different business and DSO reductions according to it.

**Key Qualifications**:

- Undergraduate degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics.
- +3 years of experience in Financial Planning.
- Possess a deep understanding of financial statements and relationships between income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.
- Expertise in US GAAP principles.
- Knowledge of SAP and Hyperion and Essbase Planning.
- Highly organized and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to manage a large workload with a sense of urgency and adapt real time to re-prioritization by managing a large number of countries.
- Microsoft Office, mainly Excel: experience with large data sets, forecasting, & planning.
- Ability to synthesize financial / business impact information into clear and concise summaries for presentation to senior finance and business stakeholders with a key objective to influence in key decisions at a director level.
- Great oral and written communication in English and Spanish.
- Action oriented and ability to be objective.
- Team player with strong abilities to interact with their other peers.
- Proved leadership since needs to work with the main leaders of each function.

Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments.