What are the responsibilities and job description for the FP&A Finance Business Partner position at The Gowan Co.?
Position Summary:
The Role is the finance business partner to Gowan’s global business leads, who own our four portfolios (Fungicides, Insecticides, Herbicides and Biologicals), and to the Global Business Lead who oversees them. It works with the business, not only for Finance, turning financial information into insight and recommendations that guide decisions on pricing, inventory, investment and growth. It plays a central part in the Strategic Plan process, builds the reports and analysis that leadership uses to run the portfolios, and supports special projects, including M&A.
The Role will require experience in managing finance projects for Mergers and Acquisitions, and highly effective finance business partner. Understand our business model, build dynamic financial models, accurately report results, and deliver insights to the leadership team and others in the organization. These models will assist the leadership team in managing the company and will support key business decision making. This role works with teams across the company to develop data-driven models that help us evaluate risks and opportunities, recommend changes that drive company improvement and profitable growth. Finally, the position will facilitate planning, develop forecasts, analyze, and explain variances from expectations.
Job Status:
- Full-Time / Yuma, AZ
- Salaried
- Exempt
- Reports to: Global FP&A Director
Role Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary finance partner to the Global Business Lead and the portfolio leaders (Fungicides, Insecticides, Herbicides and Biologicals), keeping regular dialogue and understanding the strategy, economics and key risks of each portfolio.
- Turn financial information into insight and recommendations that support decisions on pricing, inventory, investment and portfolio priorities, and challenge assumptions constructively.
- Partner with the business leads throughout the Strategic Plan process: gather and challenge each portfolio’s assumptions, build the financial view by portfolio, consolidate it and prepare updates for senior leadership.
- Build and maintain the reports and dashboards that show portfolio performance, and analyze results with the business leads, explaining variances against budget, forecast and prior year.
- Support special projects requested by business leadership, including M&A evaluation.
- Prepare, analyze, and explain historical and projected financial information.
- Understand the key drivers of the target business (strategic considerations, business model, spend structures, assets, and key risks)
- Analyze financial data to create pro forma financial models for evaluating M&A opportunities.
- Work with Finance and Operational leaders to confirm key assumptions in the pro forma financial model and evaluate synergies.
- Perform rigorous valuation and quantitative analyses including tax impact and purchase price allocation.
- Deliver analysis in a timely manner to meet agreed upon deadlines or raise attention to potential conflicts and challenges with sufficient lead time to address concerns.
- Strong business partner with the ability to deliver top-tier results in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Strategic finance partner to the Commercial organization by providing guidance, strategic insight and information to facilitate decision-making.
- Work closely with accounting and finance partners to ensure accurate data and information gathering and will support the build-out of the company's operating model.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, market dynamics, and economic factors that could impact the company’s financial performance, providing insightful analysis and recommendations to mitigate risks and leverage opportunities.
- Generate metrics for the business to measure growth, profitability, expenses, efficiency, and productivity.
- Help drive the company’s bottom-up budgeting process, collaborating with department heads to ensure accountability to the budget.
- Deliver monthly financials and report on variances vs budget and forecast, ability to tell the story behind the numbers.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or related field, MBA is a plus.
Experience / Skills / Abilities:
- 5 years of financial and data analysis experience.
- Expert in Microsoft Excel
- Experience with Power BI and Power Query a plus
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Leadership skills
- Experience as a finance business partner to senior non-finance leaders.
- Experience supporting strategic or long-range planning.
- Ability to influence and challenge leaders constructively and explain complex numbers in simple terms.
- Creative and resourceful problem solvers who can work autonomously.
- High energy, self-starter, and ambitious.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to interface with all levels of the organization.
- Experience and comfort operating in a remote working environment.
- Willingness to travel up to 10%
Job Expectations / Working Conditions:
- Work in office environment at a desk for extended periods using computer.
- Light filing and Occasional travel.
- Occasional overtime may be required.
- No direct reports