Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description
The Senior Analyst, Finance Operations and Sales will report to the Senior Manager, Commercial Finance within the FP&A department, will work closely with regional operations teamand partner extensively with Pyxus senior leadership on all operations finance matters. The main responsibilities for this role will include but are not limited to, budgeting and forecasting, financial modeling and simulations, strategic planning, and reporting of key operating benchmarks.
The primary responsibilities of the Sr. Analyst, Finance Operations and Sales will be to create financial and strategic metrics to support the organization and assist with driving business performance by providing financial analysis and planning. This function will act as the analytical engine of the company to provide insight and help support optimal business decision-making, performance benchmarking and connection with strategic pillars. The candidate will interact with analytics and data visualization team, worldwide regional operations and other financial departments acting as a liaison between Operations and Finance. The successful candidate will be viewed as a value-added business partner to the business unit leadership and at the corporate level.
The successful candidate must have the ability to function in a matrixed environment at a broad-based, strategic level while being capable of driving detailed, tactical execution.
Responsibilities
Analytics & Strategy

• Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, conversion costs and expenses in order to provide insights for looking forward scenarios. The objective is to transition discussions from explaining what happened or why it happened to what might happen.
• Leverage company ERPs and systems to gather data that can be used to drive insights on financial performance.
• Develop internal and external benchmarks that create regions, customers and industry/peer group comparisons.
• Region and countries analytics on return of capital.
• Oversee and keep track of capital investments and budgets, along with following up on how the business is performing against original business cases.
• Work with a Business Intelligence Tool and Data Visualization team to create value added dashboards that can be utilized by management.
• Take partial ownership and assist FP&A on Long Range Plan implementation on potential triggers and scenario planning.
• Develop financial models and analyses to support the company's strategic initiatives including M&A projects.
• Provide management with Board of Directors updates on a monthly and quarterly meeting with relevant and timely information.

Sales and Operations Support

• Create Sales and Operations forecasting reports and ad hoc financial analysis to identify key business drivers.
• Maintain and improve Conversion Costs tools and assumptions.
• Create detailed customer analytics using internal and external data that drive improved business decisions resulting in increased operating performance.
• Provide operational perspective to the annual operating budgets and long-term financial plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance or Economics;
• Three years of experience in a similar global FP&A role;
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint;
• Previous experience with developing data visualization tools such as PowerBI;

Strong quantitative and analytical problem-solving skills;