Sr. Financial Analyst

Newell Brands is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support our Outdoor & Recreation brands (Coleman, Contigo, and Marmot). The role is global with additional support to the domestic go-to-market team. The Financial Analyst works cross functionally with Brand Management, Customer Strategy & Planning and Sales teams on innovation, activation, and commercialization activities to drive profitable growth. The role is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Outdoor & Recreation is an omni-channel business that competes across diverse product categories including active lifestyle products for outdoor activities, technical apparel, and on-the-go beverageware. These products are sold through various go-to-market channels including mass merchandisers, eCommerce, wholesale clubs, outdoor specialists, and owned direct-to-consumer sites.

This position will report to the Senior Manager, Finance of Outdoor & Recreation and provide critical finance and commercial support to the business. This will include supporting and analyzing global brand P&Ls; innovation support; working capital management; planning & forecasting; advertising & promotion effectiveness; and pricing and gross margin optimization analysis. This person will primarily support the Brand Management team but will also have input into decisions with our go-to-market channel strategy, helping the organization make profitable, fact-based decisions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Analyzes global results by providing explanations on key P&L drivers for the period vs. forecast, budget and prior year including customer and product volume/mix, trade spend and advertising and promotions.
• Supports the preparation of monthly forecasts and annual budgets, working closely with Brand Management, Customer Planning & Strategy and Sales
• Analyzes proposed advertising, promotional spend and other activation investments with pre- and post-activity ROI analytics to help inform current and future decisions.
• Supports commercialization and go-to-market analysis.
• Partners with cross-functional teams to monitor the brand/category marketplace including Newell POS performance, market share, and category growth trends.
• Supports the New Product Development process, including developing forecasts, preparing financials, calculating project return metrics, analyze changes vs. previous updates.
• Optimizes gross margin based upon pricing, mix management, cost improvement and innovation.
• Liaise with Operations Finance to summarize impacts of standard costs and manufacturing variances for historical, current, and future key material costs.
• Manages and optimizing working capital including inventory.

Qualifications And Experience Preferred for This Role

• Undergraduate degree in finance, accounting, or a related field of study.
• 2-5 years of relevant experience preferably in consumer-packaged goods (CPG).
• Strong analytical skills and working knowledge of project valuation and volume/price/mix analysis.
• Strong interpersonal skills, both written and verbal communication.
• Ability to operate with a consumer-focused mindset to partner and collaborate achieving a common goal with cross functional business partners.
• Results driven behavior acting with sense of urgency and with the ability to recommend and make decisions quickly.
• Experience with Hyperion (HFM), SAP (ECC) and Power BI.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to work with a high degree of autonomy.
• Advanced Excel skills, highly analytical and detail oriented.