Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Sims Metal (Sims) is a global leader in metal recycling. With facilities worldwide, Sims supports the circular economy by making resources available for future use. As a responsible corporate citizen, we continuously seek new ways to broaden our participation in the environmental sector, ensuring that our future is as bright, safe, and secure as it has ever been in our long history.

About the role

The FP&A Manager supports the 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. By improving data quality and communication, the role will support more timely, accurate decision-making across regional finance, commercial, and operational functions, and share best practices with peers across the North America Metals business. This role will improve transparency and deliver more stable trading margins across the region for all commodity products while reducing operational costs.

Margin Analysis

• Analyze 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 analyze and enhance the 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 in terms of performance

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 prioritized, analyzed and presented
• Coordinate with the Buy Force team to help provide analytics on 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 to 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

Standardization, Sharing of Best Practices & Continuous Improvement

• Assist in the development of appropriate methodologies of key performance indicators to monitor and calculate for 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 optimizes the trade-off between operating costs and trading
• Assist in the development and implementation of appropriate methodologies to consistently calculate margin and cost of standardized 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 by 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 the region’s functional strategy
• Support and ensure compliance with all Company policies, procedures, and initiatives within multiple inter-related teams or regional functions with a single team

Experience/Education/Skills

• 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
• 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
• Understanding of scrap metal economics
• High level of business acumen, commercial awareness and ability to apply strategic thinking skills when analysing or making recommendations
• Strong presentation skills
• The ability to juggle multiple and competing deadlines
• Result-driven, organised and strategic mindset
• Good interpersonal and influencing / leadership skills, including the ability to accept and embrace others’ ideas

Equal Opportunity Employer

Sims is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value the diversity of all of our employees and are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where everyone can contribute, advance on merit, and realize their full potential. Sims does not discriminate based on race, sex, religion, color, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, housing status, source of income, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. This applies to any employment decision, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Qualified applicants with a disability in need of a reasonable accommodation may request such without fear of reprisal or discrimination.

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