Assistant Manager - Corporate Financial Planning (Forecast Lead)

Clorox Company; Pleasanton (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Clorox Company is seeking an Assistant Manager - Corporate Financial Planning to join our Finance team. This role focuses on consolidating forecasts, managing closes, and driving technology-enabled reporting.

You will partner with senior stakeholders to deliver insights and ensure accuracy across SEC reporting, investor relations, and governance processes. The position requires strong FP&A experience, GAAP knowledge, and advanced Excel skills.

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, 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

Responsibilities

• Lead the Total Company consolidation for planning/forecasting including quarterly forecasts, budget, and IR guidance
• Support the quarterly close consolidation, analysis, and reporting requirements for Board and SEC reporting
• Design and implement dashboard reporting for Corporate Financial Planning
• Identify and drive technology and process improvements with business units
• Provide thought leadership and financial analysis for ad hoc requests
• Support internal controls processes and ensure data integrity and system tie-outs

Skills

Excel proficiency

Analytical skills

Interpersonal communication

Leadership

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics

Tools

Power BI

Anaplan

Copilot

Job description

Oakland, CA - USA

Pleasanton (CPC), CA - USA

Full time

22715

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Your role at Clorox:

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 integrityStrong 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

Desirable experience:

• Power BI experience
• Anaplan experience
• Copilot power user

Workplace type:

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

Our values-based culture connects to our purpose and empowers people to be their best, professionally and personally. We serve a diverse consumer base which is why we believe teams that reflect our consumers bring fresh perspectives, drive innovation, and help us stay attuned to the world around us. That’s why we foster an inclusive culture where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate, and ultimately able to thrive.

Learn more (https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/responsibility/thriving-communities/empowering-our-employees-to-thrive/)

[U.S.]Additional Information:

At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.

–Zone A: $90,900 - $170,100

–Zone B: $83,400 - $155,900

–Zone C: $75,800 - $141,700

All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.

Who we are.

We champion people to be well and thrive every single day. We’re proud to be in every corner of homes, schools, and offices—making daily life simpler and easier through our beloved brands. Working with us, you’ll join a team of passionate problem solvers and relentless innovators fueled by curiosity, growth, and progress. We relish taking on new, interesting challenges that allow our people to collaborate and thrive at work. And most importantly, we care about each other as multifaceted, whole humans. Join us as we reimagine what’s possible and work with purpose to make a difference in the world.

This is the place where doing the right thing matters.

Doing the right thing is the compass that guides every decision we make—and we’re proud to be globally recognized and awarded for our continuous corporate responsibility efforts. Clorox is a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's New Plastics Economy Global Commitment. The Clorox Company and its Foundation prioritize giving back to the communities we call home and contribute millions annually in combined cash grants, product donations, and cause-marketing. For more information, visit TheCloroxCompany.com and follow us on social media at @CloroxCo.

Our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity.

We seek out and celebrate diverse backgrounds and experiences. We’re always looking for fresh perspectives, a desire to bring your best, and a nonstop drive to keep growing and learning. Learn more about our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Allyship (IDEA) journey here (https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/company/idea/).

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