Job Title: Senior Manager, Finance & Data Analytics
Location: Bedford, MA
Hybrid, 3 days onsite per week
Company info: Global, publicly held manufacturing company
Required:
5+ years experience within data analytics
Business Intelligence system experience (PowerBI, Tableau etc)
Advanced Excel/financial modeling
Manufacturing/product company industry experience
Pluses:
Publicly held company experience
Info on job:
Role will be a hands-on individual contributor and reports to the Associate Director of Finance. Will be a highly visible role and responsible for using a Business Intelligence tool (company uses PowerBI) to extract and manipulate data sets to use for strategic decision making for various end users at the company. This person will work closely with finance as well as IT and other internal groups to create financial models and data sets that provide meaningful information.
Job Description:
Job Title: Senior Manager, Finance & Data Analytics
Reports To: Associate Director, Corporate Finance
Job Summary:
The role is responsible for leading data analytics processes and projects, both financial and operational, which are aligned to overall Company priorities and initiatives. This role requires significant data analytics design, business analysis and project management skills to help drive multiple transformations programs designed to improve financial management and business operations. This individual is expected to lead the business requirements, analytics design, project management, and process management. This role is also expected to analyze data and provide insights and information to help the team make better financial and business decisions. The candidate must be a "hand's on" leader; who enjoys challenges and thrives in a demanding and sometimes under developed environment.
Primary Responsibilities: • Lead special projects to drive digital transformation, including financial and data design support for projects in Business Intelligence, Customer Resource Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and other projects
Launch process improvements across global FP&A and Finance processes, with a focus on data and reporting, driving efficiencies and improving decision making • Generate data analytics to Company leadership in relevant areas such as sales, backlog, margins, inventory, pricing, quality, purchasing, etc. • Synthesize financial planning and analysis processes company-wide, including budgets, forecasts, and management presentations • Lead and manage other Corporate Finance processes as needed Required Experience, Education, Skills and Competencies • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics, or similar • Minimum 5-7 years experience in some of the following areas: data analytics, project management, financial analysis and management • Exceptional financial, analytical, and modeling skills • Experience with data governance practices, such as master data management, data quality, data architecture • Demonstrated success in project management, including scoping, resource management, working cross-functionally, hitting deadlines • Demonstrated success in process improvement initiatives, including problem identification & mitigation • Ideally experience in industrial manufacturing market • Proven management abilities in the areas of performance management, leadership influence and c-suite engagement • Experience using Business Intelligence tools (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.) is required. Experience with other database systems (middleware, data lakes) is optional but preferred • Advanced MS Excel and EPM tools (HFM, Oracle EPM, etc.) • Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently; hand's on individual contributor