Associate Finance Manager, Deos

Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

The Associate Finance Managers (AFM) will be aligned with our key business processes and play an integral role on cross-functional teams, to set our direction and optimize our business performance. Specifically, an AFM will:

• Serve as a strategic business partner, bringing an understanding of Finance, value creation and business drivers.
• Focus on operations including but not limited to formulation of pricing strategies, business assessment of new product initiatives, economic evaluation of capital expenditures, competitive analysis and benchmarking, and business process redesign
• Analyze financial results and key trends, assess current and future business risks, and communicate results to leadership.
• Implement process improvement actions in assigned areas in line with development of procedures for required duties.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional business partners to develop annual financial plans and ongoing forecasts for departmental expenses and headcounts.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related field; MBA or CPA strongly preferred
• Minimum of four years of related financial planning and analysis experience with increasing responsibility and control
• Prior work experience in Brand, Supply Chain, Customer Development (Sales), Audit, Accounting, Financial Reporting, or Financial Planning is preferred
• An enterprising and inquisitive nature that can find solutions to complex problems
• Experience creating and implementing process improvement solutions

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

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