Finance Leadership Analyst — Fast-Track to Senior Finance

WestRock Company; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock is seeking a Finance Analyst for the Financial Leadership Program 2027 in Atlanta, GA. This full-time, two-year rotation program develops future finance leaders through four 6-month assignments, including an offsite location.

Successful participants join a permanent finance role across Corporate Finance, BU Finance, Corporate Accounting and Treasury. You will gain hands-on experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis, with mentorship, training, and leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/economics /business/math
• Minimum GPA 3.5 preferred
• Strong capabilities with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and financial modeling
• Ability to adapt to changing environment, multi-task and prioritize projects
• Strong analytic/problem-solving skills, attention to accuracy, desire to improve, team-oriented
• Demonstrated leadership potential and interest in social/team building events
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to interact credibly at all levels within the company

Responsibilities

• Partner with finance team members to prepare quarterly Board slides and memo; present materials to leadership as appropriate
• Support the annual budgeting process, provide tracking and insight for projects to aid decisions in operations, maintenance and future spending
• Work with pricing and commercial finance teams to analyze the impact of pricing changes and price realization assumptions
• Perform financial modeling and return analysis for strategic projects
• Analyze results at mill, plant, customer, product and region levels and explain variances to budgets and forecast
• Perform month end closing and financial reporting activities, participate in inventories, review usage trends and participate in income statement and balance sheet reviews
• Create discounted cash flow analyses for capital expenditures and other investments
• Optimize and rationalize reporting and enhance reporting databases for consistency in financial practices
• Perform ad-hoc analyses and work with division/segment finance teams to design value-added reporting for leadership
• Create monthly and quarterly EBITDA bridges to quantify and explain business results; partner cross-functionally to improve bridge methodology
• Lead projects and support key initiatives as assigned

Skills

Excel

Financial modeling

Leadership

Teamwork

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/economics/business math

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Smurfit Westrock is seeking a Finance Analyst for the Financial Leadership Program 2027 in Atlanta, GA. This full-time, two-year rotation program develops future finance leaders through four 6-month assignments, including an offsite location.

Successful participants join a permanent finance role across Corporate Finance, BU Finance, Corporate Accounting and Treasury. You will gain hands-on experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis, with mentorship, training, and leadership