Senior Financial Analyst
Posted on: 7 Dec 2022
Naperville, IL
Job Description
The Commercial Finance Senior Financial Analyst provides direct support to the sales team within the Nalco Water Light division. This role serves as a key financial advisor and value-added business partner to the Corporate Account Sales team by helping to drive sales growth and safeguarding the profitability of the business. This role reports directly to a Nalco Water Light Commercial Finance Manager.
What You Will Do:
Build customer P&Ls to examine profitability for new and existing opportunities, support the contract negotiation process with customers, and lead PCAF (Proposed Contract Authorization Form) process to support internal approvals and documentation
Partner with the corporate account and field sales managers to understand and provide recommendations regarding product pricing, rebate programs, and contract compliance
Identify gross margin improvement (GMI) initiatives, track and quantify the financial impact of those initiatives, and collaborate with marketing and sales teams to implement at the customer level
Provide financial guidance and analytics to marketing teams to support new product program rollouts, sales incentive programs, and promotions
Develop internal and customer-facing reporting and analytics on an ad hoc basis
Drive process improvement and best practices within CAF team
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline
Minimum 4+ years of finance, business, or consulting experience
No immigration sponsorship available for this position
Preferred Qualifications:
Strong analytical aptitude and organizational skills, high attention to detail and the ability to work independently
Results-oriented, proactive, and possesses a high level of integrity
Ability to clearly, concisely, and confidently present detailed financial results to an executive audience
Must demonstrate overall business acumen and ability to deal with ambiguity
Strong written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills
Advanced spreadsheet, presentation, and financial systems skills (preferable experience with SAP, PowerBI, and Oracle EPM)
Ecolab Inc.
St Paul, MN
Ecolab Inc. provides water, hygiene, and energy technologies and services worldwide. The company operates through Global Industrial, Global Institutional, Global Energy, and Other segments. The Global Industrial segment offers water treatment and process applications, and cleaning and sanitizing solutions primarily to industrial customers within the manufacturing, food and beverage processing, transportation, chemical, primary metals and mining, power generation, pulp and paper, pharmaceutical, and commercial laundry. The Global Institutional segment provides specialized cleaning and sanitizing products to the foodservice, hospitality, lodging, healthcare, government, education, and retail industries. The Global Energy segment offers the process chemicals and water treatment needs of the petroleum and petrochemical industries in upstream and downstream applications under the Nalco Champion name.
This segment also provides additives for drilling and well stimulation, corrosion inhibitors, oil and water separation, scale control, paraffin and asphaltene control, biocides, hydrate control, hydrogen sulfide removal, oil dispersants, foamers and anti-foamers, flow improvers, anti-foulants, crude desalting, monomer inhibitors, anti-oxidants, fuel and lubricant additives, and water treatment.
The Other segment offers pest elimination services to detect, eliminate, and prevent pests, such as rodents and insects in restaurants, food and beverage processors, educational and healthcare facilities, hotels, quick service restaurant and grocery operations, and other institutional and commercial customers.
This segment also produces and sells colloidal silica for binding and polishing applications in semiconductor, catalyst, and aerospace component manufacturing, as well as chemical industries. Ecolab Inc. sells its products through field sales and corporate account personnel, distributors, and dealers. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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IndustryScience/Research
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No. of Employees49, 000
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Jobs Posted1058
