Supply Chain Financial Analyst

About the Role

Act as a finance partner to the Supply Chain organization, supporting both U.S. and International Supply Chain teams across all brands in the Inspire portfolio. This role involves completing monthly close activities, providing analytical support, and offering recommendations concerning financial matters. The position will also provide technical support to maintain financial models and identify/implement broader process improvements related to the Supply Chain group. This position is based at the Atlanta Global Support Center with an expectation to be onsite 4 days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the monthly close process, including reconciling financial results vs. projection and budget, making appropriate journal entries, and reforecasting through the end of the year.
• Create monthly summaries of financial results for Supply Chain Leadership, detailing main variance drivers, including commodity fluctuations and obsolescence drivers.
• Participate in the annual budgeting process and long-range planning for various business segments.
• Provide analytical support to help maintain and improve Inspire and licensee/franchisee profitability. This includes analysis of product margins, production expense analysis, and performing risk assessments for the businesses.
• Perform data-driven modeling and analysis on product pricing, product mix data, manufacturing variances, etc., to turn data into actionable information.
• Continuously find opportunities to improve processes, capabilities, and tools needed to support Supply Chain and relevant stakeholders.
• Proactively work with business partners to develop, implement, and automate reporting that assists in critical decision-making needs.
• Support existing and new supply chain initiatives with meaningful financial analysis and function as an overall business partner to Global Supply Chain colleagues.
• Manage relationships with suppliers concerning pricing accuracy, obsolescence exposure, and other financial impacts.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Experience with Smartview and other Oracle applications strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• 4-Year degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field.
• 0 - 2 years of experience in finance or accounting with 1-2 years experience preferred.
• Experience with supply chain and/or scaled purchasing analysis preferred.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Strong business partnership, solution-generating, and collaboration abilities.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Ability to handle competing priorities, often with considerable time constraints.
• Willingness to do whatever it takes to meet ever-changing departmental and customer needs. Thrive in a cross-functional capacity.
• Positive attitude and flexible team player committed to getting the job done.
• Experience supporting a widespread field environment strongly preferred.

Direct Reports

• None.