Sr Financial Analyst Ii

The** Senior Financial Analyst**supports the financial and operational performance and strategic business decisions for our manufacturing sites. This individual will provide supply chain finance leadership to one of the Ecolab North America plants. This role reports into the Sr. Finance Manager of Manufacturing and is part of a team supporting multiple facilities. The North America manufacturing team consists of 12 plants representing $350M in annual spend and key priorities include safety, quality, maintaining strong service levels to our customers, and driving productivity improvements.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Drive financial performance management, including monthly closing, adhoc reporting/analytics, monthly forecasts, and annual budgets.
- Leverage new reporting and forecasting tools to provide new insights and create efficiencies in existing processes.
- Prepare cost accounting analysis and maintain strong internal financial controls, ensuring compliance with SOX requirements.
- Lead annual standard costing updates for the site.
- Identify savings opportunities and return on investment, improve financial processes through automation and redesign.
- Partner with other Supply Chain teams across North America.
- Support capital investments to ensure appropriate return on investments.
- Support building a TPM Loss reduction culture that drives financial accountability and ownership throughout all levels of the organization.

**What You Will Do**
- Act as a Financial Business Partner focused on driving strong financial acumen and decision support that results in financial metric improvement and profitable growth. Key business partners will be the plant manager and other plant leaderships.
- Drive tools and analytics locally to help business partners with areas of opportunity to improve costs and understand how projects/actions translate financially.
- Maintain a culture focused on policy adherence and financial controls to ensure appropriate monitoring of operations financially. Assure policies are being followed in accordance with SOX, GAAP, and Corporate Policy.
- Manage all accounting procedures related to operations (e.g., G/L maintenance, accruals, expense charge-off, journal entry preparation, payroll processing, capital equipment authorization, asset management, and inventory control including inventory reconciliations).
- Support network-wide improvements by leading standard work and process development across the North America network focused on simplification and efficiency with leveraging shared services, consistent analytical tools, and metrics.

**Minimum Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
- Minimum 5-7 years of experience in finance and/or accounting.
- Strong change management skill set and leadership capability.
- Strong understanding of accounting concepts and practices.
- Demonstrated ability to drive financial performance, influence management, and lead change.
- Demonstrated history of process improvement, project management, and critical thinking.
- Strong agility in learning and operating in system/data environments to drive efficiency in process and decision support.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office tools including Excel and PowerPoint

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Minimum 2 years of experience in cost accounting.
- Proficiency in SAP, PowerBI, Hyperion, Blackline.
- MBA, CPA, CMA.
- TPM/Lean/Six Sigma knowledge and Green or Black Belt certification.
- Experience building financial models to drive decision making.

**Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**

Ecolab is committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and furthering the principles of Equal Opportunity to Employment. Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, and disabled individuals at all levels of the workforce. We will recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, Ecolab will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, or disability.