Senior Manager, Commercial Finance Americas

At Bakelite, you’ll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today. We’re Everywhere. Everywhere you look, you’ll find products enabled by Bakelite, from stronger homes to safer automobiles and everywhere in between. With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world’s most challenging demands. Join Our Team and Help Us Build a Stronger, Safer, Better World.

It’s Better with Bakelite.

• You will lead the financial reporting, analysis and planning activities for the Americas region and partner mainly with business director and his/her team, supply chain, R&D and procurement organizations to deliver profitable growth.
• Your key responsibilities will include providing financial analysis to support business decision and performance monitoring, guidance related to sales pricing and margin and insights on markets.

• You’ll Help Shape Our Future. As a Bakelite associate, you’re part of a diverse, global population creating the next generation of the company and we expect you to put your fingerprint on it.
• We Champion Our Associates. At Bakelite, you don’t just climb the career ladder – you pave your personal path through continued learning and development.
• Together, We Will Protect the Planet. From our processes to our products, we are focusing on the opportunities that both grow our profitability as a company, and improve and protect the planet.
• Safety is a Core Value. At Bakelite, safety is a 24/7 mindset. We are all safe today to ensure we are able to show up tomorrow – for our families and friends, for each other and for our communities.
• We Care. Plain and simple, we care about our associates. From the top on down, we place a high value on our culture and the associate experience. We offer competitive compensation, robust benefits and support our associates every step of their career.

Atlanta is Georgia’s capital, largest city, and home to Bakelite’s corporate headquarters.

• The city offers lots of activities. In addition to restaurants and a bustling downtown area, you can explore Zoo Atlanta, Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta Botanical Garden and more.
• Check out some of Atlanta’s famed sports teams, including the Braves, Falcons and Hawks.
• Atlanta is home to several the most colleges and universities in the southern U.S., including University of Georgia, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, John Marshall Law School and others.
• Love to travel? You’ll be close to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest airport in the world.

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• Provide reporting for key performance indicators including volume and margin results, pricing actions, targets and opportunities and other strategic initiatives supporting margin performance.
• Create and manage effective financial metrics to provide insights to management to support decision making.
• Create ad-hoc analysis to anticipate any scenarios impacting the performance of the business.

• Manage financial budget cycles including processes, tools, timeline, and analytics for developing annual targets.
• Develop monthly volume and margin forecasts that drive visibility into near term and annual business performance.
• Preparing 5 year growth plan, including modeling for organic and inorganic (acquisition) growth.

• Leverage systems and data integrity processes to deliver financial information to users with accuracy to drive business decision making.
• Identify and implement business process changes and/or systems enhancements to improve data capture and support continuous improvement processes.

• Perform month end closing procedures to deliver accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Manage regional product costing processes to maintain accurate cost data on all purchased and manufactured products.
• Support external audit…