Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Overview

• Partner and manage aspects of the Surface Haulage Business Unit annual budget and quarterly forecasts. Be able to frame the “story” within the financials.

• Prepare monthly sales flash, flash P&L, and monthly financial reporting package for Executive leadership.

• Prepare financial trends and variance analysis to document business trends and identify areas for improvement.

• Prepare monthly Executive Staff Meeting materials for the Haulage Business Unit.

• Ad-hoc analysis supporting the Surface Haulage Business Unit, other business partners, and segments.

• Review bookings, billings, and backlog (BBB) within Surface Haulage Business Unit

• Consolidate financials monthly and support Controller of the Surface Haulage Business Unit.

• Work with Corporate Finance on harmonization, consolidation, and support reporting packages for KMT.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Manage financial planning cycle by preparing templates that will be used to gather relevant data from the Surface Haulage Business Unit.

• Ensure departmental data is loaded into SAP/BPC and review to Standard Variable Margin (SVM) reporting.

• Consolidate financial forecasts on a quarterly and annual basis. Compare forecasts with business trends and macro-economic data to determine the reasonableness of the current forecast.

• Obtain variance explanations for capacity costs within the Surface Haulage Business Unit.

• Consolidate and report monthly CapEx plan supporting approvals, PO’s, actual and planned spending for the current fiscal year and long-range plan (LRP).

• Decision support includes analysis of historical financials, obtaining variance explanations, updating risks and opportunities to current plan and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).

• Maintain trends for bookings and sales data by region, product, and commodity.

• Assist in preparing monthly presentations to Executive Leadership.

• Support Corporate accounting department for the annual and quarterly forecasts.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Financial Accounting with operational emphasis. Broad understanding of accounting and business operations.

• SAP and BPC experience

• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office products, especially strong with data analysis.

• Ability to interpret data, develop trend lines and assist in formulating action plans.

• Strong interpersonal skills.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Attention to detail and accuracy a must.

• Ability to independently and as a team member.

• Committed to meeting established deliverables on time.

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