Commercial Finance Analyst

Spectrum Brands' Home & Personal Care (HPC) Appliances business participates on a global basis in small electric appliances, shave/groom appliances and beauty appliances. Our well- known brands include George Foreman, Black+Decker, Farberware, Breadman, Juiceman, Russell Hobbs and Remington. Our products appeal to consumer trends for healthy eating, stay-at-home cooking, creating today's new hair style and much more. We distinguish our product offerings from the competition by employing forward thinking, innovative technologies matched with a strong understanding of consumer needs to bring to market high quality, superior products that delight the end user.

Analyst level finance position that will provide reporting to assist the Home and Personal Care division in managing their business more effectively. Position will impact commercial management decision-making based upon timely and accurate customer and product sales reporting, profitability analysis and market trend analysis.

Sales - POS (40%)

• Provide monthly POS updates on key accounts, structuring data in easy to digest format. Pulling out the "so what", driving to the insight to better partner with commercial management.
• Become system "power user", within all current data subscription packages.
• Provide monthly POS updates on the US market using HPC subscription access. Run baseline reporting currently in operation, expanding to drive additional value and opportunity for the organization.
• Provide key data for line reviews with buyers, analyzing POS on shelf between HPC and competitive units, calling out trends in consumer behavior.

Analytical / Relationship (40%)

• Comfortable with large data sets.
• Big picture thinker who can identify trends, and effectively level up detail to be immediately digestible by senior leaders.
• Able to ask questions of channel leads to delve into the reason for a trend as well as to effectively business partner.
• Develop regularly updated suite of reports with quick links so that senior leaders can access key information from several departments through one portal.

Other (20%)

• Various ad-hoc reporting as requested by any number of teams that the commercial finance team supports, mainly around analysis of business trends.
• Support for financial forecasting tools such as Integrated Business Planning (IBP) ensuring connectivity with trends at customer as well as providing variance analysis within HPC's embedded S&OP process.

An equivalent combination of:

• Bachelor's degree required. Accounting or Finance degree preferred.
• 2-4 years financial analysis experience.

• Requires creativity in problem solving.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be an expert in MS Excel
• Quick study in systems
• Requires highly refined organizational and time management skills.

Working conditions are normal for an office environment.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer

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