Business Partner Financial Planning and Analysis

NSF is looking to add a dynamic Business Partner Financial Planning and Analysis to our Finance Team to support NSF Food equipment and Food Advisory divisions. The Business Partner FP&A will provide all business insight aspects on a global program/project that spans multiple global divisions & functions. 

•  Leads weekly program/project financial review. 
•  Drives and supports the forecast, budget and business plan process. 
•  Collaborate with the business / functions to establish common global KPI's. 
•  Develops business case for any program/project initiative driven by the global division or function. 
•  Drives continuous improvement within the program/project 
•  Always looking for ways to improve the business 
•  Sharing any ideas and wins with all divisional, regional, and functional FP&A teams 
•  Follows the consistent processes established within the finance function. 
•  Interacts and educates with global division or function leaders on how to read and interpret management reports and gathers feedback on enhancements to management reporting. 
•  Analyzes the operational metrics to the monthly financial statement to properly interpret what is happening within the project/program.
•  Leads discussion with the business or function leaders to tell the financial story from a variance to budget, forecast and prior year. 
•  Provides ongoing education to global division or function leadership to increase business acumen. 
• Support month end close with variance analysis and collaborate with FP&A and general ledger teams to improve month end process. 

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• Bachelors Degree 
• Minimum of 5 Years of Finance experience. 
• Advanced Excel Skills (Modeling, Macros, Pivot Tables, etc.) 
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop forward-looking forecasts, budgets & business plans. 
• Demonstrated ability to prepare and present accurate monthly summary of P&L to senior level leadership. 
•  High proficiency in establishing and maintaining effective relationships across the business to understand the business drivers and goals.
•  Ability to drive the development and reporting of operating metrics that ensure financial performance. - Demonstrated ability to support presentation of complex analysis with clarity and to work in a deadline driven environment. 
•  Proficiency to ensure decisions made are aligned with accounting guidelines. 
•  Ability to work onsite a minimum of three days per week 

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• MBA 
• Experience leading a project or project team 
• Experience with Budget & Reporting Software (Oracle, Power BI, Oracle Hyperion, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), OneStream, Hubble, Tableau, etc.)