Assistant Manager - Corporate Financial Planning (Forecast Lead)

The Clorox Company; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Clorox Company is seeking a diligent Assistant Manager for Corporate Financial Planning to join our Finance team in Oakland. You will own the consolidation of forecasts, support the quarterly close, and drive technology-enabled reporting enhancements.

Ideally you bring 5+ years in Financial Planning and Analysis, deep U.S. GAAP understanding, and advanced Excel skills. This hybrid role offers collaboration with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics.
• 5+ years of professional experience in Financial Planning and Analysis.
• General Understanding of U.S. GAAP.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel.
• Ability to identify and implement ways to streamline and improve effectiveness and efficiency.
• Strong attention to detail and data integrity.
• Strong analytical skills across large data sets for messaging to stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills; self-starter with ownership.
• Strong collaboration and ability to coordinate with diverse peers.

Responsibilities

• Lead Total Company consolidation for core forecasting processes including quarterly forecasts and budget.
• Support quarterly close consolidation and reporting for senior stakeholders and SEC reporting.
• Design and implement dashboard reporting for Corporate Financial Planning and automate reporting.
• Provide thought leadership and ad hoc financial analysis.
• Support internal controls and data integrity, ensuring documentation and system tie-outs.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Attention to detail

Owns issues and resolves them

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Copilot

Job description

We are seeking a diligent and strategically minded Assistant Manager - Corporate Financial Planning to join our world-class Finance team at The Clorox Company. This outstanding opportunity will enable you to be at the forefront of our financial strategies, driving excellence in Corporate Financial Planning and Reporting. The ideal candidate will be responsible primarily for the consolidation of forecasts and closes, technology transformation, key reporting, and controls. To be successful, you must possess strong analytical and interpersonal skills and be an agent of change.

In this role, you will:

Financial Planning and Reporting

• Planning/Forecasting: Lead the Total Company consolidation for core forecasting processes, including quarterly forecasts, budget, quarterly IR guidance, and pulse updates. Help define critical information needs, partner across Finance teams to gather inputs and align assumptions, provide meaningful analysis, and deliver clear insights and messaging to be shared with senior stakeholders, including the CEO, CFO, and Investor Relations team.
• Close: Support the Total Company quarterly close consolidation, analysis and reporting requirements for Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Investor Relations, Corporate Communications and SEC Reporting. Support the executive close reporting deck and early P&L reviews by providing insights that contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the company’s financial plans and performance vs expectations. Support key report distribution, ensuring timely delivery, accuracy and reflection of changing SEC Reporting requirements

Technology Transformation Automation of Management reporting and analytics

• Support the design and implementation of new dashboard reporting for Corporate Financial Planning. Utilize new technologies to evolve our current processes, automate reporting and enhance business insights
• Demonstrate a continuous improvement approach by proactively identifying, championing and driving technology and operational improvements through partnerships with Business Units and Corporate teams

Financial Analysis and Modeling

• Decision support: Provide thought leadership and financial expertise to ad hoc analysis.

Internal Controls / Data Integrity

• Support extensive internal controls processes for Financial Planning by ensuring no material deficiencies, partnering with Business Units and Corporate teams on control requirements, and maintaining accurate documentation
• Perform system tie-outs between Group Reporting and Anaplan to ensure both systems match at total Company level

What we look for:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics
• 5+ years of professional experience in Financial Planning and Analysis
• General Understanding of U.S. GAAP
• Advanced proficiency in Excel
• Ability to identify and implement ways to streamline and improve effectiveness and efficiency
• Strong attention to detail and data integrity
• Strong analytical skills, ability to organize a significant amount of data, gain insights from the data and vary key messages to various stakeholders
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Strong leadership and influencing skills; self-starter that can work independently and has ability to take ownership of issues and ensure timely resolution.
• Solid interpersonal and collaboration with ability to communicate and coordinate with diverse set of peers, customers, and stakeholders
• Strong planning and organizing skills
• Ability to adapt quickly to unforeseen circumstances
• Power BI experience
• Copilot power user

Workplace type:

Hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days WFH at Pleasanton or Oakland office