Finance Manager- Budget & Incentives, GSC
Finance Manager- Budget & Incentives, GSC
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Job Description
The Enterprise Financial Planning & Analysis Budget and Incentives team provides centralized budgeting and incentive tracking for Sherwin-Williams global businesses. This includes partnering with the companys business units to develop and maintain accurate expectations of business drivers that enable business strategy and action.
The Global Supply Chain (GSC) Finance Manager of Budget and Incentives leads a team that works closely with a variety of functional areas within the Company spanning various levels of the organization. This role manages a segment of the global incentive compensation budgeting process from end to end and has responsibility over ensuring that the Companys incentive compensation budget policies and procedures are implemented and maintained throughout the year driving accurate incentive forecasts and payouts.
Because this role involves access to confidential financial information the Company has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and to provide similar protections for its clients and potential investments.
Responsibilities
Position Responsibilities
- Develop coordinate and maintain the financial operating systems surrounding the annual incentive compensation budget process for GSC to ensure budgets are accurate and in alignment with the Companys strategic goals and objectives.
- Create a consistent and streamlined incentive month-end close and forecasting process that will be used to provide clear visibility of financial projections control costs and prevent unforeseen impacts to key stakeholders.
- Possess a strong understanding of US GAAP to own the GSC bonus close activities and deliver accurate on-time monthly journal entries
- Create scenario modeling based on historical data current attainment trends and/or forecast
- Develop enhancements that will allow business units to better drive strategy and profit.
- Lead a team with a focus on talent development; set standards of performance coach train and develop employees through regular clear and consistent communication of goals and deliverables.
- Build strong and meaningful relationships with business partners and internal customers with a focus on trust and integrity
- Oversee a team that has responsibility for:
- Calculating and tracking incentive programs in conjunction with HR and business partners
- Owning the annual GSC site budget process including template updates
- Actively managing GSC attainment and budget adjustments to ensure accuracy is maintained throughout the year
- Managing the timely and accurate publication of monthly financial incentive results
In addition to the tasks listed above this position will gain exposure to reporting and hierarchy changes related to the Companys global system integration projects and will help drive continuous improvement by employing transactional lean concepts to improve the budget and incentive processes.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong work ethic ability to work well under pressure and the skills to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced work environment. Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to adjust and reprioritize as needed while maintaining a strict adherence to deadlines is critical. Attention to detail as well as a desire and ability to problem solve through complex financial situations is a must.
Qualifications
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
FORMAL EDUCATION:
Required:
- Bachelors Degree in Accounting Finance or Business Administration with a focus in Finance or Accounting.
Preferred:
- Masters in Accounting/Finance and/or CPA
KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:
Required:
- Minimum of 5 years experience of consistent performance by meeting or exceeding expectations in Finance or Accounting related roles as demonstrated in this job description.
- Strong understanding of US GAAP
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship
Preferred:
- Experience in budgeting for incentive compensation
- Ability to analyze data present findings and offer proposed solutions.
- 7 years experience of consistent performance by meeting or exceeding expectations in Finance or Accounting related roles as demonstrated in this job description.
- Previous manager experience particularly a manager of others
TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
Required:
- Strong understanding of US GAAP
- Strong communications skills in both verbal and written form relaying ideas in both technical and user-friendly language to a wide variety of functional areas.
- Ability to problem solve and make decisions in complex financial situations.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced work environment.
- Capable of performing accurate financial statement analysis involving sales cost of goods sold SG&A and balance sheet information to drive budgeting forecasting and incentive accuracy.
- Ability to recognize trends patterns and investigate irregularities.
- Exceptional ability to facilitate meetings and follow-up with resulting action items.
- Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization and to lead and influence cross-functionally with and without direct authority.
- Drive for continuous improvement and innovative thinking.
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft 365 suite.
Preferred:
- Experience using OneStream and Oracle applications.
- Prior experience with P&L management and budget development.
- People management experience.
Travel: 5%
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
