Sr. Manager - Analysis

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Georgia-Pacific LLC is seeking an experienced Sr. Manager of Analysis to join our Operations Finance team at our Palatka, FL Paper Mill!

The Palatka Paper Mill is a large, integrated manufacturing operation with significant scale, complexity, and visibility across Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Products business. This role offers the opportunity to support a major site where financial insights directly influence operational performance, strategic planning, capital decisions, and long-term value creation. You will gain direct exposure to the full manufacturing environment, including paper machine operations, converting, utilities, maintenance, capital projects, inventory, and cost performance drivers.

Our onsite Sr. Manager of Analysis will support the organization by providing actionable manufacturing and financial analysis, forecasting, planning, and business partnering with our operations leaders to create value and close gaps.

This is a highly visible business partnering role where you will work directly with operations leaders to connect financial performance, operational drivers, and strategic priorities into actionable decisions.

We are recruiting contribution‑motivated candidates with strong critical and entrepreneurial thinking skills who demonstrate initiative, natural curiosity, and a drive to transform. As an experienced Sr. Manager and financial analyst, you will be able to leverage your expertise to drive operational improvements and support strategic decision‑making at the Palatka Mill. We serve as the primary financial business partners for the site and our division.

The Sr. Manager of Analysis will report to the site Operations Finance Leader and will be part of a larger finance team supporting multiple Consumer Products locations.

This role is based at our Palatka, FL paper manufacturing facility. Being embedded at the mill allows you to stay close to operations, build strong relationships with mill leadership, observe and hear manufacturing decisions firsthand, and translate operational activity into financial insight.

Build and develop trusted business partnering relationships with Palatka operations and leadership teams. Bring a strong analytical mindset and challenge the process. Help coach our operations partners on economic decision‑making, project support, and value creation by identifying, measuring, and tracking key bets and performance gaps. Become a valued financial voice for the site. Work with sister sites and peer groups to identify shared opportunities and support broader CPG finance capability.

Consumer Products | Georgia‑Pacific is one of the world’s leading makers of tissue, pulp, packaging, and building products. You may recognize our household brands, such as Angel Soft bath tissue, Brawny paper towels, Quilted Northern bath tissue, and Dixie cups and tableware.

• Develop strong relationships with the operations team to better understand and anticipate their business needs
• Obtain a solid working knowledge of the primary drivers of operations and their impact on financial performance including fixed and variable costs
• Provide financial and economic decision‑making support by preparing and interpreting financial results, cost and variance analysis, operational gap analysis, capital planning, project support, and other ad hoc analysis while creating real, long‑term value for the organization
• Execute operations bet tracking and performance analysis
• Perform internal and industry benchmarking to identify operational, productivity, variable cost, and fixed cost improvement opportunities
• Support the Palatka Mill in creating and maintaining short- and long‑term strategic plans
• Perform capital investment analysis and support prioritization of key initiatives
• Contribute to the monthly forecasting and annual planning processes, including monthly P&L, balance sheet, cost reviews, and mill performance reviews
• Use relevant internal and external data to improve forecast accuracy to better inform business and operations decisions
• Continuous financial performance assessment, outlook updates, and opportunity identification
• Collaborate with…