Finance Lead, Commercial Finance
Lake County, IL US
Job Description
In this position you will be tasked with providing financial insights and planning analysis to support Marketing, Salesforce, and other support functions.
What You’ll Be Doing:
You will lead and develop monthly, quarterly, and annual Plan/LBE and LRP as required including P&L, headcount, and balance sheets. Prepare and comprehend relevant variance analysis for each planning cycle.
You’ll operate independently as Finance Lead to support month-end close process and ensure complete, accurate, and timely monthly actual results.
Ensure meaningful management reporting and analyze and understand results to communicate risks to management and provide management with clear insights into drivers of business and financial performance/risk and recommendation prioritization decisions.
You will drive financial reviews, ad hoc analysis, projects, and process improvements.
Lead the process related to financial systems including data load and validation, as well as utilizing the
financial system to drive efficiency in reporting and analysis.
You’ll provide insights into total brand P&L profile.
What You’ll Need for Success:
- You will need at least 5 years of finance/accounting experience.
- Bachelors degree in Finance or Accounting
- Strong Excell skills required, experience with BPC and SAP preferred.
Meet Your Recruiter
Holly Liberto
President of Marketing Recruitment
Executive recruiting since 2006, specializing in the placement of marketing professionals nationwide in the areas of direct marketing. Including: e-commerce, CRM, analytics, database marketing, website analytics, integrated marketing, loyalty marketing, product/brand marketing and much more….
Holly is a results-driven professional with 10+ years of marketing experience – from market research to circulation/catalog and project management experience. Holly has transitioned her experience in the marketing field to recruiting. Holly’s recent successes have been in placing candidates from the level of vice president to manager level in all fields of marketing. She works in various industries such as: big box retail, e-tailers, financial services, CPG/pharmaceutical companies and advertising agencies. Holly holds a B.A. in arts & sciences from Syracuse University.
Mom of two beautiful daughters and yoga enthusiast. “Yoga has been part of my life for four years and my practice has helped me grow both spiritually and physically, both on and off the mat. Yoga inspires me to live each day more mindfully.”