Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Company Overview for Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. Founded in 1978, Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. (Formosa Plastics) is a growing, vertically-integrated supplier of plastic resins and petrochemicals. With annual revenues of more than $5 billion, we employ over 2,800 people who operate 20 production units in six business divisions - Olefins, Polyolefins, Vinyl, Specialty Polyvinyl Chloride, Chlor-Alkali, and Oil & Gas. Formosa Plastics offers a full line of polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene and polypropylene resins, caustic soda and other petrochemicals that deliver the consistency, performance and quality that customers demand.

We market our polypropylene and polyethylene resins under the Formolene® tradename; we market our suspension PVC and specialty (dispersion) PVC resins under the Formolon® tradename. We also produce and sell caustic soda, ethylene dichloride, commercial bleach and hydrochloric acid. We are committed to supplying the highest quality products and services to our customers, providing a safe and healthy workplace for our employees and contributing to the quality of life in the communities where we operate.

This commitment is made possible through our dedicated people, consistent products, continued protection of the environment and ongoing investments in new product development, quality control systems and safe, modern and energy-efficient production facilities. Formosa Plastics is a privately held company headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey. Our core business, producing plastic resins and petrochemicals, takes place at three wholly-owned chemical manufacturing subsidiaries located in Delaware City, Delaware, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Point Comfort, Texas.

Job duties:

• Develop and utilize business and financial models and analytical tools to assess value delivery, product profitability, cost drivers, and operational efficiencies and to provide solutions for process improvements and systems optimization.
• Support and manage data integrity, accuracy, and technical requirements of the financial reporting system, cash/loan/investment system and the financial management system.
• Collect, compile, clean large datasets and analyze operational cost data, perform job cost analyses and EBITDA performance evaluation, and evaluate product cost and profitability trends with SQL and Excel to support data-driven operational and financial decision-making
• Incorporate all relevant sales, cost, profit and accounting related information with analytical tools into financial and business analytics to develop new insights and perspectives, identify trends with dashboards in Tableau and Excel, and recommend business actions with financial reports.
• Assist in the development of strategic business plans, financial forecasts, benchmarking analysis, and scenario analysis for manufacturing service operations.
• Identify specific business opportunities using analytical tools and analyze competitiveness to make necessary recommendations to improve company business and procedure.
• Work closely with stakeholders, project managers, and teams to understand the business needs of the company; develop plans to address issues with business solutions, and support business projects in a timely manner.
• Serve as the coordinator between system users and developers, leveraging knowledge of programming languages and Finance/Accounting to effectively communicate technical requirements, analyzing system logic, and translating business needs into technical solutions.

Benefits: 401(k) & 401(k) matching, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, paid time off.

SALARY $82,067.48 per year

Education and Skill/Knowledge Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Financial Analytics, or Finance and Analytics
• Must have knowledge of financial modeling, Scenario and sensitivity analysis, data visualization, financial accounting, financial forecasting and analysis, time-series, data management, Python, exploratory data analysis, Entity Relationship data modeling, Tableau, Advanced Excel functions, pivot table, database logical design, Power BI, SQL, data integrity

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