What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Business Finance Analyst position at Olin?
Join our winning team as a Senior Business Finance Analystin Clayton, MO. In your role as a Senior Business Finance Analyst, you will support the global Epoxy business focusing on the division's global products planning and analysis. The role will provide direct support to the Finance Director for Epoxy and will have regular contact with Business Leadership and key functional leaders including Division Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Commercial organizations.
A demonstrated understanding of the basic chemicals industry is important to this role. The incumbent must also have a proven ability to provide objective and well-grounded analysis. The ideal candidate will excel at critical thinking, communications, and teamwork across geographically and functionally diverse groups. They will also be pleasantly assertive, comfortable in an unstructured fast-paced environment, and ill proactively identify opportunities to provide value-adding business analysis and decision support.
Senior Business Finance Analyst Essential Job Functions:
Who We Are
Since 1892, Olin Corporation has steadily grown to become the industry leader in both chemicals manufacturing and ammunition. The three divisions of Olin Corporation, Olin Chlor Alkali Products and Vinyls, Olin Epoxy and Winchester, employ approximately 8,000 global team members in more than 20 countries with customers in nearly 100 countries around the globe.
Olin is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
A demonstrated understanding of the basic chemicals industry is important to this role. The incumbent must also have a proven ability to provide objective and well-grounded analysis. The ideal candidate will excel at critical thinking, communications, and teamwork across geographically and functionally diverse groups. They will also be pleasantly assertive, comfortable in an unstructured fast-paced environment, and ill proactively identify opportunities to provide value-adding business analysis and decision support.
Senior Business Finance Analyst Essential Job Functions:
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual earnings estimates and analysis in support of key commercial, manufacturing, supply chain, and other activities.
- Support the annual strategic planning process by performing key planning activities and complex financial modeling.
- Analyze product sales, pricing, costs and margins to support commercial managers' understanding and decision making.
- Work closely with Business Finance, Cost Accounting, Revenue Analysts, and General Accountants to coordinate business finance closing and other activities across the business.
- Proactively review pre-closing results in transaction systems to identify any accounting or earnings issues or concerns; adhere to monthly and quarterly closing schedules.
- Combine actual and estimate financial information across the business to provide relevant analysis on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Provide timely and insightful analysis of actual results vs. estimate and historical results.
- Support the Product and Business leaders and others with ad hoc analysis including presentation material.
- Actively participate in multiple projects.
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree* in Accounting or Finance; Master's Degree* preferred.
- CPA, CMA or other certifications preferred.
- Minimum of 2 years of public accounting experience or 5 years of related Finance and/or Accounting experience.
- Experience including financial planning, budgeting/forecasting, reporting and analysis for a full income statement preferred; Manufacturing/industrial experience preferred.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills and proven experience in financial modeling and decision making.
- Ability to learn new systems; SAP experience preferred.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of analytical processes, cost drivers, tools and techniques required.
- Demonstrated leadership skills and experience including the ability to drive results, collaborate, manage complexity and problem solve, and effectively communicate.
- Robust critical thinking, initiative, analytical skills, proactive approach, and creativity required .
Who We Are
Since 1892, Olin Corporation has steadily grown to become the industry leader in both chemicals manufacturing and ammunition. The three divisions of Olin Corporation, Olin Chlor Alkali Products and Vinyls, Olin Epoxy and Winchester, employ approximately 8,000 global team members in more than 20 countries with customers in nearly 100 countries around the globe.
- Degree must be from a school that is accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the Secretary of Education of the U.S. Department of Education or equivalent program from an international university.
Olin is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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