Finance Business Partner - Now Hiring

Who We Are: Great Northern Equipment Distributing, Inc. manufactures and distributes top-quality equipment that you can trust and count on at an exceptional value. We provide quality products and trusted brands to the hardware, lawn & garden, rental, agriculture, and power equipment industries. We continue to strategically partner ourselves with quality products and incorporate smart business solutions that we can utilize across our business to provide our customers exceptional value.

Why Choose GNE?

Industry leading benefits

Excellent work/life balance

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Basic Function: The Finance Business Partner will be responsible for guiding the business through the planning, forecasting, reporting and analytical efforts to enhance our company’s strategy. In addition to leading monthly operating reviews, this person will help drive increased visibility to overall financial performance for multiple operating divisions, while providing financial insight to leaders across the organization.

Essential Functions:

• Leads all financial and analytical reporting needs for the company.
• Maintains the annual budgeting process in its entirety by working with leadership to identify objectives that align with overall company goals, assists in creating strategies that align with said objectives.
• Engages and collaborates with functional leaders to proactively identify trends and reporting changes that match trends and business objectives.
• Develops and maintains a list of quantified risks and opportunities relative to the monthly financial forecast for the functional area. Collaborates with leadership to proactively and creatively develop countermeasures to mitigate the risks and action plans to capitalize on the opportunities.
• Responsible for all financial analysis and modeling for the functional area. Strives to uncover and deliver insights from the data and analysis to enhance business decisions and drive value creation for the organization.
• Manages the Profit and Loss statement for the area and ensures that functional leadership has a clear understanding of financial performance and trends within the area and how that impacts the broader organization.
• Leads cross-functional monthly operating reviews, highlighting key trends and overall financial performance for the established period.
• Promotes efficiency and implements automation in all reporting and analytical functions by streamlining processes, using best practices in constructing projects, and fully utilizing toolset functionality to minimize manual tasks.
• Keeps supervisor informed of important developments, potential problems and related information necessary for effective management. Coordinates and communicates plans and activities with others, as appropriate to ensure a coordinated work effort and team approach.
• Performs related work as apparent or assigned.
• Attends training as designated by GNE.

Secondary Functions:

Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting business transactions.

Qualifications and Experience:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance or related field and 5 years of progressive experience.
• At least 3 years of experience with budgeting, forecasting and analysis.
• Extensive experience with reviewing financial statements, financial modeling, and financial concepts.
• Superior analytical skills and intellectual/analytical curiosity.
• Strong knowledge of general accounting principles and methods.
• Ability to influence upwards based on data and insights.
• Ability to be entrepreneurial and creative in ambiguous situations.
• Ability to build relationships functionally at various levels of the organization to address strategic and tactical challenges.
• Effective written and oral communication skills. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedures. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from internal and external customers.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Working knowledge of ERP systems is required. Microsoft Business Central is preferred.
• Proven experience within Microsoft Suite, including Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Outlook, Excel & Teams.

Preferred

• Experience working with report writer and/or exporting from database.
• Experience serving on cross functional teams.

Budgetary Responsibilities: Non-budgeted spending authority $500 per single transaction. Oversight of budget preparation. Investigates and reports on variations from budget.