Finance BP – Extrusion Manufacturing – IPEX

Job Title: Finance BP – Extrusion Manufacturing

Location: Edmonton, AB

Job Description: Reporting to the Financial Business Partner Senior Manager – Manufacturing & Engineering, the Extrusion Manufacturing Finance Business Partner collaborates with the Financial Planning & Analysis team (FP&A) as well as the North American business leaders to monitor financial performance, develop strategic plans, budgets, forecasts and financial analyses to facilitate decision-making and to meet the businesses’ strategic targets. Business partners are trusted advisors that influence, provide actionable insights and challenge the businesses/functions to ensure the best financial decisions that maximize the North American strategic goals.KEY RESPONSIBILITES:

• Understand the business requirements, activities, priorities and strategy of the Extrusion Manufacturing team in order to provide them with appropriate strategic financial support, financial opinions and insights that drive as well as support strategic business decisions.
• Provide strategic and operational business partnering to the Extrusion Manufacturing departments to support business objectives and deliver results.
• In collaboration with FP&A coordinate the review of the long-term plan, budgeting, as well as forecasting models and reports with the business leaders.
• Review financial performance with stakeholders to identify issues, provide solutions and develop action plans.
• Drive root cause analysis as well as action plans resulting from financial variances between expected, or planned performance compared to actual performance.
• Drive the development of business cases with support of the financial planning and analysis team by using financial analyses, such as net present value and return on investment, as well as other quantitative factors to evaluate investment decisions.
• Support continuous improvement by driving financial post-mortem project reviews (includes capital expenditure projects), leveraging insights from trends, forecasting approaches or other financial indicators.
• Identify and analyse opportunities for optimization and savings.
• Coordinate with the functions and FP&A to drive scenario analysis and related action plans.
• Identify, understand and monitor leading business indicators to provide market trend insights.
• In collaboration with FP&A, develop the capabilities, tools (including presentations and management reporting), techniques, and models to enable Finance to influence and drive better decision-making in the organization.
• Drive collaboration in cross functional analysis and decision processes.
• Assist FP&A in preparation and in coordination of financial overview, responses to global requests, presentations for quarterly reviews and leadership meetings.
• Proactively signal risks or issues impacting financial results before the risks materialize.
• Advise on forward looking assumptions, trade-offs and opportunities by conducting financial scenario analyses.
• Coordinate with other areas of finance to drive decisions and solutions. Leverage the Finance team capabilities by involving the colleagues with the right expertise at the right time.
• Build strong relationships with the Business to collaborate, gain-buy-in and to deliver results.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Finance, Business, Accounting or related field
• CPA, CMA Designation
• Minimum 5 years of relevant finance business partnering experience (preferably in a manufacturing environment)
• 10+ years of related experience
• Experience working within a global setting
• Dynamic, innovative thinker with excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Strong people management, motivational and coaching skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with all levels of management.
• Solid leadership and analytical skills.
• Bilingualism (French and English) considered an asset.
• Action oriented – Acts with a sense of urgency.
• Highly skilled in both written and oral communication with a talent for crafting and delivering messages to all company stakeholders.
• Think Strategically – Understanding the vision and mission of the organization, looking ahead to future trends, opportunities, and threats to develop a big picture view, and translating that into innovative strategies to gain competitive advantage for the organization.
• Be Customer Obsessed – Developing a deep understanding of internal customers and demonstrating a commitment to exceeding their expectations.
• Collaborate & Influence – Building and maintaining effective working relationships, ensuring alignment within and across groups, and using one’s understanding of others to gain buy-in and support and achieve shared goals.
• Drive Accountability and Results – Accomplishing goals to the highest of standards and driving accountability in self and others in alignment with the values of IPEX NA.
• Strong business acumen and business savvy.
• Self-starter takes initiative and drives continuous improvement.

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