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. The Analyst will complete monthly close activities, provide analytical support, and offer recommendations concerning financial matters. This role will provide technical support to maintain financial models and identify and implement broader process improvements for the Supply Chain group.

This position is based at our 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 versus 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 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, and manufacturing variances for actionable insights.
• Continuously find opportunities to improve processes, capabilities, and tools supporting Supply Chain and relevant stakeholders.
• Proactively work with business partners to develop, implement, and automate reporting for critical decision-making needs.
• Support existing and new supply chain initiatives with meaningful financial analysis and act as an overall business partner to Global Supply Chain colleagues.
• Manage relationships with suppliers concerning pricing accuracy, obsolescence exposure, and other financial impacts.

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 preferred.
• Experience with supply chain and/or scaled purchasing analysis preferred.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Strong business partnership, solution-generating, and collaboration abilities.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Ability to handle competing priorities with time constraints.
• Willingness to do whatever it takes to meet ever-changing departmental and customer needs.
• Ability to thrive in a cross-functional capacity.
• Positive attitude and flexible team player.
• Strongly preferred: Experience with Smartview and other Oracle applications.
• Strongly preferred: Experience supporting a widespread field environment.