District Finance Manager - South West

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Title:

District Finance Manager - South West

Location:

Commerce, CA, US,

Company Name:
Univar Solutions USA LLC

Requisition

A Place Where People Matter.

Start your career journey with Univar Solutions! Here you can make an impact on the world around you and accelerate your career in areas that energize and excite you.

District Finance Manager:

This role is a partner to the General Managers and Operation Managers district leaders to drive growth and ensure responsible use of the Company's resources (e.g. working capital investment, operating and capital dollars and employee time). This role supports South West District in the West Region and is responsible for managing and overseeing the accounting and financial reporting within the assigned district.

This role pulls commercial and operational expertise together to advise on overall business operations (Sales thru EBITDA; Working Capital), identify issues and offer/implement solutions.

What You'll Do:

FP&A

* Provides reporting and analysis for district level management that assists to drive performance improvement and cost efficiency

* Develops rolling forecasts and budgets for district

* Runs all required monthly financial reports to support month-end close

* Jointly works on cost saving and capex projects, performing appropriate ROI review

Finance Operations

* Understands and supports compliance with all key business processes

* Analyzes, reviews and reports on Sales performance activity

* Ensures data integrity through the proper and consistent coding of all operating expenses. Provides feedback and coaching to non-finance teammates as needed. (local finance ambassador)

* Supports month end close process through early identification of issues and timely review of financials. Prepares timely financial reviews to provide detailed explanations to key business stakeholders on performances of district.

* Supports strong working capital management through active review of customer terms, customer aging and inventory turns processes with the Shared Service Center

Leadership

* Actively contributes to a high performing finance team

* Proactively identifies, develops and executes tools and processes that improve the effectiveness and efficiency driving district profitability.

* Assists with special projects and preparation of reports as required or requested.

* Effectively drives a positive culture for cross-functional and cross-branch/district improvement

What You'll Do:

* Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting from fully accredited four-year institution is required; an MBA degree and/or CPA is preferred

* 5-7 years of experience in progressive Finance or Accounting roles required

* Ability to utilize soft skills to get results in a highly matrixed environment

* Problem solving and critical process review/project management skills

* Interpersonal skills in coaching and influencing without direct reporting authority

* Effective communication skills in both external and internal situations

* Organization skills and ability to balance competing priorities

* Strategic thinker with experience in a distribution / manufacturing business

* Planning & forecasting

* Skilled at performance reporting and investment evaluation and analysis (financial modeling)

* Highly skilled with systems and information management (i.e., SAP / One…