Manager of Analysis

Georgia Pacific; Clatskanie (OR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Retirement

Paid time off

Educational assistance

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific LLC seeks an experienced Manager of Analysis to join our Wauna OR Consumer Products Manufacturing facility in Clatskanie. You will provide actionable manufacturing analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and business partnering with operations teams to create value and close gaps.

You will mentor and share process improvements with analysts, drive operational improvements, and support strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• Experience with manufacturing finance and cost accounting preferred.
• Strong Excel modeling and forecasting abilities.
• Experience with data analysis/visualization tools and ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial and economic decision-making support through results, cost and variance analysis.
• Develop strong relationships with the operations team.
• Understand drivers of operations and their impact on financial performance.
• Contribute to monthly forecasting and annual planning.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for improvements.
• Partner with Accounting, Controls, Product Costing, and Commercial Finance.
• Prepare and analyze product cost vs benchmarks.
• Advance Principles-Based Management culture.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Systems and tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

Power BI

Alteryx

Tableau

VBA

Hyperion

SQL

SAP

Job description

Georgia-Pacific LLC is seeking an experienced Manager of Analysis to join our Wauna OR Consumer Products Manufacturing facility. In this role, you will create value for the organization by providing actionable manufacturing analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and business partnering with our operations teams to create value and close gaps. We are recruiting contribution motivated candidates with strong critical and entrepreneurial thinking skills who demonstrate initiative, natural curiosity, effective communication skills, and are driven to transform. In this role you will be able to use your expertise to drive operational improvements and support strategic decision making. You will also have the opportunity to mentor and knowledge share process improvements and optimization with other analysts on the analytical team.

Location: This is an onsite role supporting our Consumer Products mill in Clatskanie, OR.

What You will Do

• Provide financial and economic decision-making support through preparing and interpreting financial results, cost and variance analysis, operational gap analysis, capital planning, and other ad-hoc analysis while creating real, long-term value for the organization.
• Develop strong relationships with the operations team to better understand and anticipate their business needs.
• Obtain a solid working knowledge of the primary drivers of operations and their impact on financial performance.
• Contribute to the monthly forecasting and annual planning processes.
• Contribute to long-term strategic planning process.
• Execute operations bet tracking and performance analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to seek and share knowledge, identify opportunities for improvements, challenge the status quo, and propose solutions.
• Partner effectively with our Accounting, Controls, Product Costing, and Commercial Finance teams to support variance analysis, and general mill questions.
• Prepare and analyze product cost in comparison to industry and internal benchmarks.
• Advance our Principles-Based Management culture by applying and reinforcing the company's Core Values and Principles.

Who You Are (Basic Requirements)

• Career experience in a financial analysis, accounting, cost accounting, operations finance, or related role(s) that demonstrates understanding and application of financial concepts, economic principles, marginal analysis, variance analysis, IRR, ROI, and other valuation metrics.
• Transformation focused: You are flexible and able to prioritize your work in a dynamic environment, embrace and lead change, and seek to improve processes.
• Confident Communicator: You have experience presenting complex financial concepts to various audiences and you engage effectively with your stakeholders in multiple formats.
• Collaboration: You have the ability to work independently and as part of a team; you have experience leading projects and mentoring/coaching less experienced team members
• Systems and Tools savvy: You have experience sourcing large volumes of data from multiple systems, performing analysis and developing a point of view.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting or Finance
• Finance/Operations Accounting experience in a Manufacturing organization.
• Advanced MS Excel capability (i.e. financial modeling, forecasting, graphs, charts, pivots, macros)
• Experience with data analysis/visualization tools (i.e., Power BI, Alteryx, Tableau, VBA, Hyperion, SQL, etc.)
• Experience working with SAP, or similar ERP systems.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

The Wauna Mill has been in operation for 59 years and is one of the largest employers in Clatsop County. Owned by Georgia-Pacific, the site boasts more than 700 employees and produces retail tissue, towel, and napkin paper products. Our Georgia-Pacific Corporate HQ is located in downtown Atlanta, GA. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.