Sr Business Finance Leader

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Senior Manufacturing Analyst is a seasoned professional role within Insulation Manufacturing responsible for conducting insightful analysis and reporting across the entire Insulation Division.  This role will interact with finance and operations leaders, and other stakeholders spanning up, down and across the Company. The position is suited to driven, curious individuals who can work independently and lead mid – large size projects. Qualified candidates will have a minimum of 5 years of accounting and finance experience, preferably in multinational corporations.

Join an organization that believes that every employee owns a piece of our bold growth goals and ultimate success. We are a market-leading innovator that has placed on the Fortune 500®. Owens Corning is devoted to delivering sustainable solutions across our three business segments while striving to ensure our people and products make the world a better place. We take pride in having an inclusive and diverse workplace with employees around the globe. A holistic sense of community exists across our entire organization as our talent grows globally. We are a company that fully recognizes the importance of paving a path to a sustainable and safe enterprise through investing in our people. Our desire to make an impactful difference in the world flows from top down to all levels of the organization. By being a company that instills pride within each and every employee, we aspire to build market-leading businesses; global in scope -human in scale.

Reports to: This position reports to the Manufacturing Finance Leader

Span of Control: Individual contributor

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 

1. Reporting & Analysis

• Develop and maintain financial models and consolidation tools to support operating and strategic plans and forecasts.
• Report on the manufacturing cost ‘story’ and provide a clear cost walk to FP&A in support of monthly and quarterly performance reviews, and earnings calls.
• Build and leverage an intimate knowledge of the Insulation businesses to provide insightful analysis in comparison of actual results to submitted budgets and forecasts.
• Partner closely with the Insulation Manufacturing, FP&A and Corporate FP&A team to ensure timely and accurate consolidation of operating and strategic plans including assumptions on demand, productions, cost, capacity utilization etc.
• Partner with Sourcing, Insulation COE, and Plant Controllers on quantification and tracking of productivity initiatives within the plant forecast.
• Serve as a primary resource in support of special projects supporting the manufacturing organization. Examples include digitalization projects, capital productivity projects, rebuilds, infrastructure, curtailment/expansion analysis to support supply, and financial planning.

2. Drive Automation and Efficiency Agenda

• Lead and/or support digital transformation initiatives within the Insulation Manufacturing Finance team (including but not limited to SAC, MindCAN, Controller Cockpit, etc)
• Analyze reporting gaps and develop automated and sustainable reporting solutions that drive insights and simplification to the manufacturing teams.
• Identify process inefficiencies and bridges those gaps through process design as it relates to forecasting, planning and financial modeling.
• Serve as a BI superuser by maintaining skills through training, demonstrating ability to train and teach technical capabilities across manufacturing finance and build strong relationships with the FRAT team, BI COE team, FP&A and manufacturing.
• Leverage working knowledge of SAP standard costing and SAP 6.0 to pull and analyze plant reporting on an as needed basis.
• Maintain project pipeline reports, drive adoption and lead the change management of reporting tools throughout the manufacturing organization.

3.  Drive internal control awareness, knowledge, compliance, and excellence throughout the business to support operational and financial risk mitigation.

• Conduct regular assessments to determine if controls are operating as intended.
• Partner closely with plants across Insulation to implement/improve controls and support remediation activity as required.
• Lead root cause analyses and other analytical work to identify and understand exceptions and assess the impact to the control environment.
• Assist with data analytics initiatives to strengthen our control environment.
• Monitor non-SAP plants to ensure proper internal controls environment is in place.
• Build relationships with subject matter experts in Finance, Accounting, Audit and Operations to ensure changes to the internal controls over financial reporting properly mitigate risks in an efficient manner.

JOB REQUIREMENTS 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• 5 years of progressive finance, accounting, or internal audit/controls experience.
• Plant controller or plant analyst experience
• Ability to travel 10-20%.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Advanced degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Experience working in a multi-national corporation.
• Public accounting experience in control assessment setting.
• Complex project leadership experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong accounting and business acumen; brings a business lens to compliance.
• Strong understanding of operational and financial statement risk and effective control design.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and organizational skills with the ability to identify trends in data and drive to root cause.
• Demonstrated ability to be successful in a fast-paced and dynamic, team-oriented environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to work with colleagues across various geographies and functions.
• Organized, deliberate, and reliable in structuring work, and effective problem solver.

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