Financial Analyst - Automation

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.

We are seeking a Financial Analyst - Automation for our First Quality Enterprises company located in Great Neck, NY.

As a member of the Enterprise Central Finance team, this role primarily supports enterprise-wide analytics and process automation by designing, developing, and maintaining solutions to improve business processes and improve financial analysis. This Enterprise role also has responsibilities for leading Finance Center of Excellence meetings and projects, acts as back-up for other Central Finance activities as well as participates in business process internal audit reviews across the organization, as needed

Primary responsibilities include:

This role spends about 70% of the time on automation, 20% on internal audit reviews and 10% on financial closing and reporting activities.

• Develops understanding of diverse business processes selected for analytics or automation, evaluates feasibility and fit, maps solution and creates relevant documents, such as, the process definition document, process flowcharts, etc.
• Works with process owners to complete project request requirement and assists with return on investment estimates.
• Develops solutions using diverse software tools, such as Automation Anywhere, Power Automate, MS Forms, among other.
• Ensures that automated workflows are set up, tested, and monitored, and that the design and technology solution meet governance standards.
• Tests and supports the launch and implementation of solutions and participates in the solution deployment process.
• Runs tools, as needed, and resolves running issues.
• Identifies, tracks and reports on automations’ performance metrics.
• Follows governance processes and drives the adoption of best practices around coding, design, quality, and performance.

As internal audits’ support:

• To enhance their company’s business process awareness, participates in end-to-end and/or targeted process and control reviews.
• Under the Senior Director, Strategic Finance’s direction, the Senior Financial Analyst conducts process walkthroughs, documents process narratives and flow charts and evaluates control and process design.
• Creates and/or executes control testing procedures and documents work performed in accordance with the Department' standards.

As financial closing and reporting support:

• Shadows Central Finance Manager to become knowledgeable on:
• Group’s internal and external financial analyses, including elimination and consolidation of financial statements, preparation of monthly and quarterly management reporting, preparation of external compliance statements (bank), regulatory and compliance reports (US census, tax planning, etc.).
• Identifies and develops analytics and automation opportunities for Central Finance processes.
• Performs financial closing and reporting activities, as back-up for Central Finance Manager, as needed

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or similar
• CPA is a plus
• Typically requires 1 years of related experience.
• Experience in internal audit, internal controls, process improvement and/or alike, involving strong end-to-end process understanding and evaluation, preferred.
• Experience with Power Automate, Automation Anywhere or other RPA tools, preferred.
• Experience in consumer products and/or manufacturing industry and understanding of accounting environment, preferred
• Analytics driven to measure the impact of RPA solution on processes and teams
• Strong prioritization and project management skills, including timely, and proactive communication of timelines, and status
• Continuous process improvement mindset
• Intellectual curiosity to help get to the best solutions
• Tech savvy
• Financial Analysis
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
• Knowledge of US GAAP basic principles and elements of internal controls
• Ability to work independently and exposure to process improvement/optimization projects

10% -20% travel

What We Offer You

We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (three-week minimum)
• Medical, dental and vision starting day one
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
• Bundle of joy benefit (year's worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
• Tuition assistance
• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums
• ...and more!