Senior Financial Planning Specialist

4 weeks ago


Houston, Texas, United States Vibrantz Technologies, Inc. Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst to join our team at Vibrantz Technologies, Inc. This role will be based out of our Corporate office in Houston, Texas, and will report to the Director of Operational Finance of our Global Advanced Materials division.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver on budgeted EBITDA and Working Capital commitments
  • Provide clear visibility to financial performance across all manufacturing plants monthly
  • Drive inventory optimization, cost control, investment decisions, and cash flow
  • Enhance monthly and quarterly internal reporting as well as business updates to Corporate Vibrantz Leadership team
  • Drive insightful analysis to explain trends and identify risks and opportunities across the manufacturing plants
  • Support month-end closing in partnership with Accounting, Commercial, and Corporate FP&A through detailed reporting, variance analysis, and insights
  • Responsible for the collection, analysis, and application of operational costs to support the monthly/quarterly/yearly budget and forecast cycles
  • Manage overall cost accounting, including standard cost development, COGS, labor, overhead, bill of material, variance analysis, and inventory valuation accuracy
  • Ensure appropriate transaction discipline
  • Develop and maintain cost models and associated documentation
  • Understand and maintain variance reserves and expenses, including purchase price variance, standard revaluation, usage variances, and overhead variances
  • Own and support capex from initial request to approval process, fixed asset records, and depreciation methodology
  • Provide assistance to properly capitalize or expense of outlays and all capex reporting requirements
  • Assist in development and implementation of accounting policies and procedures
  • Provide FP&A support to S&OP process, linking demand to production plans across the plants and ensuring plant managers are held accountable to production targets
  • Ensure Exec S&OP discussions and presentations appropriately address all critical supply chain risks and opportunities
  • Indirectly influence the work product of various cross-functional stakeholders who support the plant production, inventory management, and procurement
  • Develop effective working relationships, establish, and lead key meeting and process rhythms across all functions
  • Develop a deep understanding of industry trends, identify causes of unexpected variances, competitive pressures/opportunities
  • Analyze data across multiple dimensions (industry vertical, customer, product)
  • Become a superuser of financial tools for BPC, BI, Planful, SAP, IFS, ROSS
  • Be a custodian of finance systems/data and the first point of contact for the Operations and Procurement team on financial system and/or reporting issues
  • Fully exploit available technology and drive the organization to embrace new technologies as they become relevant
  • Actively identify ways to eliminate non-value work and leverage automation
  • Demonstrated ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on management capacity
  • Demonstrated ability to present and articulate a compelling financial position, with recommendations
  • Ad-hoc financial analysis and support business-critical initiatives as needed
Requirements
  • 5-10 years of Accounting and Finance work experience - Cost Accounting required
  • Expert-level skills in Microsoft Office, Excel, and PowerPoint required
  • Experience working in financial consolidation systems (HFM, Essbase, or BPC)
  • An undergraduate degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, or a related discipline is required
  • An advance degree in Finance or an MBA preferred
  • Experience with SAP, IFS, ROSS, or other similar ERP systems preferred
Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, life insurance, paid vacation, and 401K.



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