Sr. Financial Planning and Analyst

Job Description

Sailun Tire Americas – Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Analyst - Chicago, Illinois

Position Reporting T o – Finance Director, FP&A

Summary/Objective

The Senior FP&A analyst will act as a business partner, having a high-level exposure and interaction with North America senior management, business units stake holders.

The Senior FP&A analyst could work independently with North America Business Units (BU) leaders and precisely present financial results and performance analysis for BU stakeholders on monthly review meetings.

She/He plays a significant role in the organization's financial and business analysis, performance measurement, data consolidation and standardization, reporting, and different purposes (internal and external requests) forecast.

Sailun FP&A team is a fast pace, non-perfect environment. S.O.P and data structure might change frequently due to rapid growth and changes, or you will be the person who takes the initiative to start the S.O.P.

We are looking for a passionate Senior FP&A analyst who has abundant financial planning and analysis experience and demonstrates ownership of assigned responsibilities with a positive self-starter attitude, forward looking mindset.

Essential Functions

• Key player and lead in the continued development of five years strategic plan, annual Budget, Financial Forecast, Operating Plan and Modeling tools for the responded

Business Unit

• Independently monitor BU’s performance indicators, including all areas of revenue, cost of goods sold (integrated view and statutory view, eg. FOB cost, freight cost, demurrage, duties etc.), expenses, inventories, capital expenditures for North America legal entities and China direct sales to North America market.
• Independently compiling BU’s monthly actuals management reports, variance analysis, working closely with accounting team (AR, AP, GL, Tax) and customer service team, to assist BU senior management for their decision making.
• As a business partner, precisely present financial performance and analysis results to BU leaders on monthly BU review meetings, and provide insights and recommendation of financial actions by assessing options in relation to organization goals
• Take initiative to streamline, standardize current process, integrate and optimize data and information flow
• Collect, analyze, reconcile and modeling financial data from different systems to provide accurate and timely financial reports and analysis to management for decision making purposes i.e. variance analysis (Actual vs. Budget, Actual vs. Forecast, MTD vs. PY etc.), price volume analysis, profit walk and drill down analysis etc.
• Take care of ad hoc strategic and operational projects as required (Corporate Group and North America BUs, Cost centers)
• Play key role in Jedox projects implementation and data connection with Group
• Play key role partnering with Business Intelligence team and leverage BI tools (Pyramid, power BI, tableau) and advanced excel functions (xlookup, pivot table, power pivot, power query, VBA etc.) to automate standard reports and develop dashboards
• Support North America R egion five years strategic plan, annual integrated Budget, and NA Region integrated performance evaluation
• Support director for monthly Group and North America Senior Management Team’s review
• Assist in ad-hoc requirements and projects that FP&A team is responsible for
• Job rotation might apply within North America FP&A team.

Travel

• National and International travel may be required based on business needs and management of Staff and Corporate location

Skills and Qualifications

• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint Skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Attention to detail and commitment to a high degree of accuracy, including consistent, timely and objective output.
• Good at balancing multiple tasks and prioritizing, ensuring timely and accurate reporting within restricted time constraints.
• Strong ownership of assigned responsibilities with a positive self-starter attitude.
• Clear logic and demonstrate strong problem-solving skills.
• Familiar with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Pyramid etc.) and able to apply in daily work.
• Ability to deal with confidential and sensitive matters appropriately.
• Capable of working with peers and associates from other departments in a positive, proactive and constructive manner.
• Familiar with Microsoft Navision and SAP will be a plus.
• Familiar with Jedox, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) or IBM TM1 will be a plus.
• Fluent in Mandarin will be a plus.

Required Education and Experience

• A University degree in Accounting, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics or equivalent in related field
• CPA designation preferred, but not mandatory
• 5+ years progressive experience in financial analysis field
• Experience interaction with senior management and public presentation is preferred
• Solid experience with BI (Power BI) and ERP system (SAP and Navision) are desirable
• Experience in working in a Global multi-entity environment is an asset