Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

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Role reports to:

Senior Finance Manager NA Procurement

Location:

Latin America, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos

Work Location:

Hybrid

What you will do

The Kenvue Procurement Finance team is seeking a Financial Analyst to support our Procurement organization in identifying & managing suppliers, negotiating contracts and executing on our strategy. The position relies on building meaningful business partnerships as well as engaging and driving collaboration with the other finance teams, e.g. Global Source Finance, Regional Supply Chain Finance, Principal, Inventory & Costing (PIC).

The role requires both detailed analytics as well as an ability to operate from a big picture perspective to ensure alignment with SC Procurement strategies.  This includes the reporting & analytics of SC procurement spend across all sourcing categories and actively driving transparency of key financial metrics to deliver maximum value for the business and enable decision making. Therefore, the successful candidate should be someone with a strong background in technical and analytical abilities. This position will also be a relied upon member of the Global Source Finance team to contribute towards and drive key process improvement / standardizations, such as PPV (Purchase Price Variance) reporting, EM directed-buy & standard costing process, tracking of monthly volumes and trends etc.

Main responsibilities

• Monthly close: leverage automation tools (Alteryx or Knime) to translate Ledger Data into monthly scorecards for teams to analyze and gather insights

• Liaison between the Supply Planning team to gather monthly volume data and analyze to support forecasting for EM / DM.

• Point of Contact for FP&A to own the reporting of data and commentary to all relevant teams for month end close.

• Own processes critical for the month-end closing and regional PPV consolidation as well the development of the Direct Materials and External Manufacturing category scorecards and reporting

• Ensure proactive compliance with respect to Global Savings Policy and general accounting and business policies & procedures

• Support Business Planning process including standard costing process as well as rest P&L/forecasting

• Leverage available data and technologies to lead process improvements within the Source Finance team that can be scaled-up and standardized across regions/categories

• Continuously seeks opportunities for improving processes; assess and implement recommendations in a timely and effective manner

• Build and foster a transparent & collaborative partnership with the other key finance teams (PIC, Regional SC, Global Source)

Required qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree is required preferably a major in Accounting, Business, Economics, Engineering or Finance. Master’s degree or other financial certifications are preferred.

• Strong technical and analytical background. Prior experience and proficiency in using Alteryx (or Knime), Power BI, Excel, SAP.

• 1 - 3 years finance or related business experience is required (FMCG Supply Chain experience would be preferred)

• Proficiency in spoken and written English is required.

• Excellent analytical (MS Excel), conceptual, communication and interpersonal skills. The ability to think creatively and work in a team environment is required

• Individual must work well in a dynamic environment and be able to recommend and implement process improvements, work independently, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously

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