Catapult
Location
Fort Mill, York County, SC | United States
Job description
About the Company
Britax is a global market leader in child mobility, dedicated to helping to make family travel safer with our award-winning range of child car seats, pushchairs and bike seats. Our mission is to protect what matters most by providing safe, comfortable, sustainable, and easy-to-use child mobility solutions.
Founded in Britain in 1938, Britax initially focused on safety innovations, such as adult seat belts. In 1978, the brand merged with established German vehicle safety counterpart Römer. Since launching our first child car seat in 1966, we have helped protect millions of children on the road across the world. Our team of 1,000 employees is spread across offices in 12 countries. Our company values are: Care, Trust and Curious:Finance Manager, Americas
Overall Responsibility
Serve as a strategic FP&A partner for the President, Americas. As a member of the Americas management team, support the business by providing analysis, insights and guidance.
Key Task and Responsibilities
· FP&A lead for monthly P&L reviews
· Serve as primary business partner for Marketing and Sales, analyzing and driving commercial performance across product lines and channels, providing decision modeling and support with pricing, rebates, gross-to-net impacts in revenue, market pricing, distributors margin, and other critical aspects of Britax's retailers and distributors relationship.
· Manage product and customer P&Ls, drive cross-functional understanding of business profitability drivers, including advertising and promotion impact, product costs, product pricing, customer trade spend.
· Assist sales and marketing teams with developing Revenue and Profitability Budgets, Forecasts and Strategic Plans, and track business performance against these plans.
· Drive critical financial analysis (ROI, NPV and payback) of New Product Development initiatives, including impact of product cannibalization, share gains, R&D efficiency. Partner with Product Marketing and Sales to understand volume potential and price positioning in the market of new products as well as cost/benefit associated with product features.
· Load approved pricing (both for new products and as a result of any price list changes) into ERP (Microsoft AX).
· Support the Sales & Operations planning process with sales and supply chain teams to ensure sound supply and working capital performance.
· Provide recommendations and analytical support to the sourcing / production teams
· Develop and monitor departmental budget spending
· Serve as the "go to" person on all financial (non-accounting) matters within the business unit
· Leads Finance support for Britax Americas for Cost Out projects activities to include but not limited to tracking, validation, and reporting.
· Oversee Monthly Cost Center reporting and reviews. Lead reviews and coordinate meeting with key Britax America's leadership team
· Oversee Business intelligence analyst as direct report
· Liaise with US Accounting team as needed, ensuring alignment across finance & accounting
Skills and Attributes
· Communication - ability to explain financial statements and business performance drivers in terms that assist the CFO and Managing Director in understanding & improving business performance.
· Ability to build trust and rapport with functional leaders.
· Ability to influence business direction with cross-functional leaders
· Analytical - ability to analyze trends and look for exceptions; ability to isolate larger drivers of variances to plans and prior years; ability to construct forward looking models that incorporate the key factors that will influence the outcome of business growth etc.
· Organization - ability to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and bringing those projects to completion on a timely basis
· Self-starter - ability to recognize business challenges and offer solutions without direction
Experience Required
· Bachelor's degree required; master's degree, MBA, CMA preferred
· Minimum 8+ years financial planning and analysis required
· Excellent Excel & PowerPoint skills; leverages systems to drive efficiencies
· Retail, FMCG, consumer discretionary and manufacturing industry experience a plus
·Microsoft Office Suite, PowerBI, and ERP systems
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