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    Sr Analyst, FP&A - Bridgewater, United States - Messer Americas

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    Purpose of the position

    The Senior Financial Analyst is a key role in the Messer Americas Finance Department, responsible for gleaning insights from business data and through business interaction to ultimately guide decision-making of the US business' senior leadership teams.

    This position will ensure timely, accurate and insightful information delivery to our senior business partners. Your excellent business acumen and strong communication and presentation skills will allow you to glean information from a complex business environment and synthesize relevant key facts and trends that help drive decision-making. Using your financial expertise, you will ensure the accuracy and integrity of your assigned segment's P&L and trade working capital.

    Why Messer?

    Messer is the world's largest privately held industrial gases company and what we do matters because it is woven into every part of life, from the medical gases that patients rely on to the essential elements needed to safely and sustainably produce the goods our communities depend on.

    The true strength of Messer is our people-at every level and in every role.

    Join us and take pride in the impact you will make by providing solutions essential to our world and lives. Reach your highest potential at our stable, inclusive company with diverse opportunities in a growing industry, supported by people who care.

    Messer stands apart because we put what matters first, and you matter.

    Principal responsibilities
    • Analyze performance of business segment ensuring integrity, timeliness, and usefulness of analysis
      1. In-depth data modeling and analyses gathering key drivers and providing insights to our business partners
      2. Partner with the business to create and validate budgets and forecasts using Workday Adaptive Planning. Create meaningful and accurate presentations for review with senior management
      3. Prepare, review and understand monthly volume, sales, cost, price, mix, and profitability results and analysis, comparing and analyzing to plan and prior year levels while understanding and explaining movements between periods
      4. Understand linkages between internal management reporting and group reporting. Ensure alignment on reporting
      5. Create and review fixed & variable cost overviews and commentary, highlighting trends for cost center owners
      6. Regularly review product inventory levels and product standard costs to ensure proper inventory valuation
      7. Monitor FTE development of assigned business segment and ensure all personnel expenses are properly accounted for
      8. Together with business partners, drive revenue and CAPEX internal orders to completion and ensure timely recognition of revenues/profits and capitalization of underlying assets. Ensure depreciation expenses are captured timely and accurately
      9. Take data quality issues seriously and effect change where necessary. Adopt responsibility for system and process issues affecting financials and engage in optimization efforts
    • Fulfill business segment lead finance position performing executive level preparation and presentation of data, drawing conclusions and providing periodic outlooks, annual budgets and annual strategy
      1. Prepare and lead monthly meetings with business partners to review results. Compare actuals to prior year and budget etc., with independent follow up on open items and requests
      2. Support preparation of monthly highlights summary for CEO, CFO and board members on relevant topics
      3. Work within schedules set by annual planning team to align on commitment from business segment, while meeting or exceeding all deadlines
      4. During annual budget cycle, understand and communicate content requirements and tools used to business segment managers, ensuring accuracy and consistency
      5. Develop annual view of sales volumes, price/cost recovery, productivity savings and other key assumptions and events and advise on impact to strategy, plan and outlooks
      6. Professionally prepare annual budget presentations for CFO and Executive Committee, including key assumptions, action items and events, and bridges from actual to plan
      7. Partner with the business to create phasing of annual budgets to ensure credible plan vs. actual comparisons
    • Provide systems expertise and training to department and business partners increasing understanding of the content, source and flow of information
      1. Develop solid understanding of information flow into/out of SAP, BW, and local reporting solutions
      2. Provide training for FiCo and business segments on the use and understanding of Tableau/SAP Analytic Cloud reports
      3. Deliver training as needed to department and business partners on planning tools, BW, etc.
      4. Participate in testing & certification of changes made to local SAP system
      5. Participate in implementation of budget tools and other technical aids to complete the budget process
    • Prepare ad-hoc reporting and analysis for business segment
      1. Prepare and validate reports as requested ensuring fit with existing data provided and Messer guidelines
      2. Champion and implement change within the team and business partners
      3. Gather requirements and act as a change manager for new or enhancements to existing reporting solutions
    Qualifications/experience
    • 6+ years financial experience with focus on delivering financial results, forecasts, plans and strategy with clear analysis and concise commentary
    • Bachelor's in Finance/Accounting required
    • MBA and/or CPA highly desirable
    • Strong business acumen, experience bringing insightful commentary to numbers, recognition of trends
    • Excellent understanding of accounting mechanisms/cost accounting, preferably in a larger industrial company
    • In-depth knowledge of ERP systems and business information systems (SAP ERP/SAP Business Warehouse)
    • In-depth knowledge of Excel (knowledge of Power Query and PowerPivot desirable), PowerPoint (Think-Cell), and Dashboarding tools (Tableau and/or SAP Analytics Cloud)
    • Solid knowledge of, and experience with, cloud-based planning software (Workday Adaptive Planning or Anaplan)
    • Working knowledge of SQL and SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) desirable
    About Messer:

    Messer's safety culture, commitment to providing dependable supply and innovative gas technology solutions help customers unlock opportunities to be safer, more sustainable, more productive and more efficient, so their business thrives. We nurture lasting, meaningful relationships with customers, our communities, and with one another.

    We offer comprehensive benefits and appreciable pay, with steady schedules and opportunities for ongoing training and career progression. We prioritize and invest in our people at every level of our organization - the dedication, knowledge, customer focus and entrepreneurial spirit of our employees is what make Messer refreshingly different.

    If you need assistance with the application or would like to request accommodation, call

    Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

    The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR c)

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