OpCo Finance Director

Core-Mark International; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Core-Mark International seeks a Senior Financial Analyst/Controller to be a primary business partner to the OpCo Presidents, setting financial goals and strategies across the organization. You will oversee financial planning and management, provide insights, drive the division’s business plan, and safeguard assets with strong internal controls.

You will collaborate across management teams, review forecasts, analyze variances, and support audits to ensure accuracy and accountability while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting and finance is required.
• 5+ years of experience in accounting, financial analysis and forecasting.
• Strong analytical mind with strategic ability.

Responsibilities

• Develop annual strategic and financial business plans for divisions with management.
• Review customer proformas to support pricing and profitability analysis.
• Ensure expense leverage and cost-saving recommendations across divisions.
• Submit timely forecasts and trend analyses with corporate templates.
• Communicate material forecast/budget changes promptly.
• Review financial results and recommend corrective actions for variances.
• Prepare, review, and approve month-end variance reporting and closing processes.
• Monitor inventory controls to protect asset value and minimize shrink.
• Support external/internal audits and provide ad hoc analyses.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting and finance

Job description

Position Summary

To be a primary business partner to the OpCo President(s) at assigned OpCo(s) in setting financial goals and strategies across the organization. This position is responsible for assigned organizations’ financial planning and management, providing business insight and recommendations to drive achievement of the division’s business plan and maximizing its return on net assets, ensuring proper internal controls and procedures are established and followed, and for safeguarding the assets of the division(s).

Job Description

Position Summary

To be a primary business partner to the OpCo President(s) at assigned OpCo(s) in setting financial goals and strategies across the organization. This position is responsible for assigned organizations’ financial planning and management, providing business insight and recommendations to drive achievement of the division’s business plan and maximizing its return on net assets, ensuring proper internal controls and procedures are established and followed, and for safeguarding the assets of the division(s).

This role is on-site that requires light travel between our Columbus, Cleveland, and Detroit locations.

Responsibilities

• Develop annual strategic and financial business plans for divisions in collaboration with the management team, ensuring they are focused on achieving revenue growth targets and operational efficiencies while ensuring the linkage between the plan and longer-term growth goals.
• Review customer proformas to support pricing / bid process and evaluate actual profitability against expectations. Participate in Customer Business reviews as needed.
• Ensure expense leverage throughout the division by reviewing and making recommendations for savings in expense areas including selling, warehouse, delivery and general departments.
• Responsible for submission of timely and accurate forecasts and trend analyses with agreed template and timetables established by corporate financial planning and analysis.
• Communicate any material change to forecast/budget as soon as known.
• Review financial results, including revenue and expense trends, with division’s management team and make recommendations for corrective action to mitigate variances from plan.
• Prepare, review and approve month end variance reporting, highlighting key variances to plan and last year
• Review and process month end journal entries to ensure a timely and accurate close process.
• Monitor inventory management systems, policies and procedures to protect asset value. Special emphasis required to ensure proper procedures and controls are in place to keep inventory shrink at or below Company standard.
• Support external and internal audit processes as necessary.
• Provide ad hoc analysis as needed to support the Regional VP and Division Presidents.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting and finance is required
• 5+ years of experience in accounting, financial analysis and forecasting
• An analytical mind with a strategic ability
• Excellent organization and leadership skills
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
• Capable of being persuasive effectively at the highest levels
• Builds and maintains strong collaborative relationships with stakeholders in functions and teams across the business
• Ability to work effectively with large amounts of data, drill down into details and provide incisive high level overviews; extreme attention to details