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Financial Planning and Analysis Manager International

Employer
MSA Safety
Location
Polska Polska PL, PL
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Jun 23, 2021

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Job Role
Financial Planning & Analysis
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
For more than 100 years, our passionate mission of safety empowers us to protect lives.

MSA Safety is a global leader in the development of safety equipment and pioneering technology that helps protect people and facility infrastructures around the world. We are committed to providing the latest in innovative, best-in class safety solutions that feature integrated systems capability and allow our customers to return safely to their families and friends. Every day our customers place their lives in our hands. In response, we provide them with protection they can trust. It is gratifying to lead the way as a source of inspiration. Would you like to join our team of more than 5,000 employees world-wide dedicated to this purpose? We hope so.

Description of duties and responsibilities:

This position reports to the Finance Director MSA International with functional reporting line to the Director Global Financial Planning and Analysis and Strategy and is responsible for Business Performance Management, leading the annual planning and forecasting for International (incl. Europe, Asia, China, ME and Africa). This position will be responsible for all areas of planning, including capex and strategic initiatives planning, excluding factory planning.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
  • Complete MSA International budgeting and long range financial planning process ensuring an accurate, complete and timely plan is created on an annual basis.
  • Partner with business leaders and financial director to ensure a clear understanding of the budgeting tool and process and to manage a periodic forecast by providing a tool to manage business on a go-forward basis.
  • Communicate business unit consolidated financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics. Suggest trends, resulting implications, key actions, and strategic implications.
  • Coordinate working capital improvement initiatives.
  • Leverage current systems and business knowledge to continuously improve business practices, internal financial processes, and other efficiencies while serving critical business needs.
  • Perform and support ad-hoc financial analysis projects.
  • Built business cases for strategic initiatives.
  • Manage team of FP&A analysts.
  • Proactively encourage and assist employees with skill and career development and create compelling development plans to ensure alignment with business needs, career goals, and long term succession plans.


Special knowledge, skills and abilities required:
  • Solid expertise of business processes, information technology, and their effect on financial statements.
  • Proven experience analyzing moderate to complex financial information, historical financial results, and market data (including emerging trends) to develop recommendations.
  • Demonstrated business orientation, excellent analytical capabilities, and strategic decision making skills.
  • Strong project management skills, including ability to multitask and manage priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong familiarity with Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Solid written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills, with ability to adapt style for all levels of staff.
  • Demonstrated problem solving abilities with proven track record of generating high quality innovative solutions.
  • Willingness to travel up to 10% of the time domestically and internationally.

Education and experience required:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance or related discipline.
  • 5 years financial analysis related experience in a global manufacturing environment, public accounting, or business consulting environment

Preferred:
  • Master's degree in accounting, business, economics or finance
  • Experience working for a publicly traded multinational manufacturing company
  • Experience working for POC company
  • Public accounting experience
  • Supervisory experience
  • SAP, BPC, BW knowledge

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