Manager, FP&A

Manager, FP&A

Support regional commercial or operations finance team for the Metal business by providing analytical support and actionable insights across the regional commercial and/or operational teams. Through improving the quality and communication of data, the role will contribute to more timely and accurate decision making within regional finance, commercial, and operational functions, while sharing best practices with peers throughout the North America Metals business. The role will contribute to transparency and delivery of increased and more stable trading margin across the region for all commodity products as well as lowering operational costs.

Margin Analysis:

• Analyse commercial data to discover insights related to key drivers of trading margins by supplier, business segment, material group and geographic regions to identify trends and opportunities for margin growth and stability
• Work with the regional buy force team to analyse and enhance understanding of regional supplier profitability to ensure maximum margin is obtained from the buy force activity
• Develop standard reports to provide the buy force team with relevant insights as to which suppliers or category of suppliers provide the highest margin contribution
• Communicate analytical insights to Commercial leadership, make recommendations for changes and assist with the development of initiatives to expand margins in both total and per tonne terms
• Monitor the implementation of these initiatives to ensure success of the recommendations and continuously improve the initiatives of performance terms

Commercial Team:

• Assist in providing transparency to traders through monitoring key performance indicators (e.g. volumes, new business, segment performance) to help drive individual and targeted buy performance
• Assist in coordination of meetings with regional commercial teams to allow review of business performance against budgets, targets and forecasts
• Understand wider business objectives and direction to ensure that any recommendations or areas of interest are suitably prioritised, analysed and presented
• Coordinate with Buy Force team to help provide analytics in where to invest and improve growth as well as tracking any projects in place
• Attend meetings as required to support the regional commercial team
• Collate, drive and track information in relation to projects, from new processes to growth projects
• Other projects as required from Regional commercial leadership
• Support Group commercial projects and initiatives
• Assist in providing information to determine efficient and consistent payment terms for suppliers and customers
• Monitor adherence to credit terms to maximise working capital

Standardisation, Sharing of Best Practices & Continuous Improvement:

• Assist in the development of appropriate methodologies of key performance indicators to monitor and calculate regional contribution to the regional trading margin
• Collaborate with other regional FP&A Commercial team members to embrace a philosophy of continuous improvement regionally and globally
• Work collaboratively with the FP&A Operations team to identify and manage the interface risks between commercial and operations to ensure that Sims optimise the trade-off between operating costs and trading
• Assist in the development and implementation of appropriate methodologies to consistently calculate margin and cost of standardised products across the organisation
• Contribute to global reporting standardisation initiatives, including ERP and BI reporting

Project Management & Business Improvement:

• Undertake ad hoc activities and projects driven by the Regional CCO and Commercial Director
• Work with the business to ensure that the new SAP S4Hana system is being used correctly within the regions to ensure that they produce accounts that accurately reflect the performance of the business
• Work with shared services team to ensure that any interface issues with the commercial side of the business are addressed

Budgeting, Forecasting & Capital Management:

• Assist with annual regional margin budget development by product type, submission, and tracking as well as quarterly, in-month and other reforecasts as required
• Contribute to the development and monitoring of margin contributions from growth projects
• Work with Operations providing narrative and modelling for CERs with margin implications
• Work with Group to assist in providing feedback and modelling of Post Completion Reviews with margin implications

Cultural Support:

• Provide decision-making support to regional commercial teams through analysis of results, returns on business segments, evaluation of proposed improvement initiatives and ad hoc analysis as needed
• Demonstrate personal responsibility for, and ensure compliance with, all Safety, Health, Environment, Community, and Sustainability (SHECS) policies, procedures, and initiatives within multiple inter-related teams or regional function with a single team
• Promote diversity and inclusion, positive employee relations, and teamwork, and ensure all workers within multiple inter-related teams or regional function with a single team are treated fairly and equitably
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and foster compliance with quality requirements in accordance with region's functional strategy
• Support and ensure compliance with all Company policies, procedures, and initiatives within multiple inter-related teams or regional function with a single team

Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline preferred. 3+ years of analytical experience, including sitting and contributing at a functional leadership table as a peer, and leading and developing commercial/business insight. Knowledge/familiarity with the administration of IT systems. The candidate will be expected to take the initiative and lead your own work programmes. Applicants must be an advanced Excel and PowerPoint user, with strong numeric and literacy skills and willing to learn emerging finance technologies such as power BI and interrelation with underlying databases. Strong influencing skills to implement solutions without direct line authority. Understanding of scrap metal economics. Excellent analytical skills and ability to identify actionable insights. High level of accuracy and attention to detail. Strong problem solving and analytical abilities with a quantitative aptitude; intellectual curiosity with the ability to exercise mature judgment. Pull together detailed and complicated financial information and present the salient points for decision making. High level of business acumen, commercial awareness and ability to apply strategic thinking skills when analysing or making recommendations. The ability to develop a confidant relationship with key members of the regional commercial team. Strong presentation skills. The ability to juggle multiple and competing deadlines. Result-driven, organised and strategic mindset. Good Project management skills. Good interpersonal and influencing / leadership skills, including the ability to accept and embrace others' ideas.