Sr Finance Analyst

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Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.

We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.

Job Summary

The major responsibility of this position is to assist the Commercial Product Management team in optimizing our pricing processes and resulting financial performance. Additionally, this role will prepare, analyze, and communicate financial information to assess financial performance by product.

Essential Functions

• Participate in pricing process via contract reviews, program approval and initial P&L preparation for new business, formal bids, and contract renewals.

• Support the monthly close process including journal entry preparation, reconciliations, and reporting of results.

• Independently analyze and report data to Product Management team to assist in monitoring profitability.

• Investigate variances from the plan.

• Ensure adherence to internal controls and accounting policies.

• Assist with requests from internal and external auditors.

• Assist Controller, Product Management with budget preparation and related analysis.

• Assist Controller, Product Management in the preparation of capital requests for growth initiatives of the Commercial team

• Coordinate regular price audits to ensure validity of pricing in ERP and on invoicing.

Job Qualifications

Required

• Two to Four (2-4) years of progressive accounting experience, demonstrating ability to learn new business processes and apply relevant finance and accounting knowledge to those processes.

• BS in Accounting, Finance, or related degree.

• Excellent communication skills demonstrated both verbally and written.

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

• Ability to utilize judgment in decision making process and decisions related to job tasks

• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines

• Exceptional people skills: establishing personal and professional relationships among diverse teams

• Good understanding of financial concepts

• Attention to detail, accuracy and confidentiality • Flexibility, versatility, dependability

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of management (internally/externally), and employees

• Advanced knowledge of Excel and Business Intelligence tools.

• Manufacturing costing knowledge.

• Experience with analyzing effectiveness of pricing and providing input into profit optimization.

Preferred

• CPA and/or MBA.

Environment

Work within an office type setting most of each day with controlled climate conditions.

Hybrid schedule.

Join us to shape the future together!