Financial Analyst

The Senior Financial Analyst supports the financial and operational performance and strategic business decisions for our manufacturing sites. This individual will provide supply chain finance leadership to one of the Ecolab North America plants. This role reports into a Sr. Finance Manager of Manufacturing and is part of a team supporting multiple facilities.

The North America manufacturing team consists of 27 plants representing $600M in annual spend and key priorities include safety, quality, maintaining strong service levels to our customers, and driving productivity improvements.

Main Responsibilities

• Drive financial performance management, including monthly closing, adhoc reporting/analytics, monthly forecasts, and annual budgets
• Leverage new reporting and forecasting tools to provide new insights and create efficiencies in existing processes
• Prepare cost accounting analysis and maintain strong internal financial controls, ensuring compliance with SOX requirements
• Lead annual standard costing updates for the site
• Identify savings opportunities and return on investment, improve financial processes through automation and redesign
• Partner with other Supply Chain teams across North America
• Support capital investments to ensure appropriate return on investments
• Support building a TPM Loss reduction culture that drives financial accountability and ownership throughout all levels of the organization

What You Will Do

• Act as a Financial Business Partner focused on driving strong financial acumen and decision support that results in financial metric improvement and profitable growth. Key business partners will be the plant manager and other plant leaderships
• Drive tools and analytics locally to help business partners with areas of opportunity to improve costs and understand how projects/actions translate financially
• Maintain a culture focused on policy adherence and financial controls to ensure appropriate monitoring of operations financially. Assure policies are being followed in accordance with SOX, GAAP, and Corporate Policy
• Manage all accounting procedures related to operations (e.g., G/L maintenance, accruals, expense charge-off, journal entry preparation, payroll processing, capital equipment authorization, asset management, and inventory control including inventory reconciliations)
• Support network-wide improvements by leading standard work and process development across the North America network focused on simplification and efficiency with leveraging shared services, consistent analytical tools, and metrics

Position Details

• This position will have a seat in the Naperville, IL office with weekly onsite work expectations at the Bedford Park, IL plant location