What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Financial Analyst position at Polycor Brand?
The Financial Planning & Analysis Manager serves as a strategic finance partner to the North America Limestone & Marble leadership team. This role combines hands-on financial planning, operational analysis, business partnering, and future team leadership responsibilities.
The successful candidate will provide actionable insights that drive profitability, operational excellence, capital allocation decisions, and growth initiatives while helping to build the FP&A function to support future expansion. This individual must be capable of making an immediate impact in a fast-paced manufacturing and distribution environment.
Scope & Responsibilities
Financial Planning & Analysis
• Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes
• Develop and maintain driver-based financial models, which support scenario analyses, sensitivities and what-if scenarios
• Perform variance and root cause analysis and pro-actively identify business risks and opportunities
• Own BU cash flow forecasting and working capital analysis
• Prepare executive-level financial reporting and presentations
• Support monthly business reviews with senior leadership
Strategic Business Partnership
• Act as the primary finance partner to operations, commercial, and functional leaders
• Translate complex financial and operational data into actionable business recommendations
• Support pricing, margin improvement, productivity, and cost-reduction initiatives
• Facilitate KPI development and performance management processes
Operational Excellence & Growth
• Evaluate operational improvement opportunities and oversee implementation tracking
• Analyze capital investments, including ROI, NPV, IRR, and payback calculations
• Support acquisition analysis, diligence activities, and integration initiatives
• Identify opportunities for organic growth through data-driven business analysis
Data & Systems Leadership
• Serve as the finance systems and data subject matter expert
• Drive reporting automation and business intelligence improvements
• Ensure data integrity across financial and operational reporting
Team Leadership & Talent Development
• Build and lead an FP&A team that is fit for purpose as organizational needs expand
• Recruit, coach, mentor, and develop future analysts
• Establish FP&A processes, controls, and best practices
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and business partnership
Required Qualifications
1. Bachelor's degree in Finance and/or Accounting
2. 7-10 years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or finance business partner experience
3. Prior people leadership experience
4. Demonstrated experience supporting manufacturing, industrial, mining, building products, or related operations; familiar with standard costing and inventory accounting concepts, and manufacturing KPI analysis
5. Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
6. Advanced financial modeling and forecasting skills
7. Experience leading cross-functional projects and influencing senior leaders
8. Demonstrated ability to challenge assumptions and influence business decisions through data and insight
9. Strong presentation and executive communication skills
10. Advanced Excel and financial systems proficiency
11. Ability to travel up to 10%
Preferred Qualifications
• CPA, CMA, CFA, or MBA
• Experience working with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power BI or similar reporting tools
• Experience implementing or enhancing planning and reporting tools and processes
• Curiosity to learn, understand, and get to the root cause
• Meticulous attention to detail and strong organization skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks concurrently
• Self-directed, with a natural curiosity around business results and understanding the “why” behind the numbers
• Excellent computer skills with mastery in Excel
• Critical analytical thinking skills
• Ability to collaborate and partner with all levels of the organization
• Ability to work in independent work situations with minimal supervision
• Driven to meet and exceed goals regarding quality and delivery of analysis and projects