Finance Associate Manager

Position: FP&A Associate Manager

Location: Mexico City

This position will support month-end, quarter-end and year-end financial closing processes and will be responsible for budgeting and forecasting, product and customer profitability analysis, gross-to-net investment evaluation, pricing strategy, trade spending analysis, A&P and non-people overheads control and financial reporting for P&L and Free Cash Flow for two of our segments.

Job Responsibilities

• Support sales and marketing teams with sound financial analysis and counsel.
• Understand sales & profitability across product categories, help design consistent processes for tracking performance.
• Meet with sales teams on a regular basis to review tracking towards estimate, variance analysis versus Prior Year, Budget, and LE, and all program accruals and promotions. Present Quarterly business review deep dive of KPIs.
• Perform annual budgeting and monthly forecasting for the areas under his/her responsibility maintaining a comprehensive understanding of assumptions underlying estimates as well as opportunities, risks and mitigation plans.
• Responsible for a timely and accurate monthly close and reporting rhythm, performance evaluation and results reporting to Local and Regional leadership teams.
• Perform ad-hoc financial analysis upon request that is meaningful and impactful.
• Develop models and reports to enable commercial/operational tracking including reporting and recommending improvement opportunities.
• Work in permanent alignment with multi-functional teams acting as the Finance leader for the divisions under his/her responsibility.
• Maintain a clean SKUs profitability, ensuring accuracy in reporting and variances with Hyperion
• Upload full P&L, Overheads, and Balance Sheet for forecast revisions in a timely manner, ensuring forecast accuracy with input from Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain.
• Maintain A&P tracking template to ensure the accuracy of accruals/estimates.
• Review Price Exceptions for margin erosion and data accuracy.
• Perform OAR, RAR or CAR analysis for approval if needed.
• Manage Budget planning, including but not limited gathering input for all P&L lines, inventory, AR, AP forecasts, and completion of budget decks.
• Lead financial control for the main working capital lines which include DSO, DIO, DPO and Customer Accruals.

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics.
• +8 years of experience in Financial Planning.
• Possess a deep understanding of financial statements and relationships between income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.
• Expertise in US GAAP principles.
• Knowledge of SAP and Hyperion and Essbase Planning.
• Highly organized and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage a large workload with a sense of urgency and adapt real time to re-prioritization by managing a large number of countries.
• Microsoft Office, mainly Excel: experience with large data sets, forecasting, & planning.
• Ability to synthesize financial / business impact information into clear and concise summaries for presentation to senior finance and business stakeholders with a key objective to influence in key decisions at a director level.
• Great oral and written communication in English and Spanish.
• Action oriented and ability to be objective.
• Team player with strong abilities to interact with their other Mexico peers.

Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments.