Job Summary about the area and the role:

Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (WTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and beverage applications, to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy industrial wastewater treatment.

At WTS, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We're an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.

The position leads and manages the margin analytics and HQ functions for the North America Chemical and Monitoring Solutions (CMS) by directing the preparation and presentation of financial planning processes. The finance manager reports to and supports the Business Unit CFO in strategic decision making through the monitoring of business and performance indicators, support functions, and supply chain teams to drive profitable growth. The position will work with the finance function on simplification, digitization and other initiatives to drive productivity and execution rigor while ensuring appropriate controllership and compliance with the business policies and procedures.This position is a key contributor to defining and implementing change management initiatives and margin improvement.

Key Characteristics

• Excellent communication and management skills are required to engage with senior management, present financial results, and foster continuous improvement

• Ability to lead and drive change across functional teams

• Exceptional analytical skills with ability to manage large data sets to provide margin variance analysis and drive profitable growth.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Prepare and coordinate with the various cross functional teams the budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy and alignment with the organization strategy and goals

• Monitor and report on key financial metrics and key performance indicators, while identifying trends and areas for improvement.

• Effectively communicate and present critical financial margin metrics to the company management team or other stakeholders.

• Conduct financial analysis and modeling on various initiatives and collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather financial information and provide guidance on risks and opportunities to execute business decisions

• Detailed cost analytics around standard costing, margin by customer/product, region etc. to enable comprehensive view of profitability of business unit. Analyze key variance drivers and recommend opportunities for improvement.

Hard Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills that translates to operational effectiveness.

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to interact with all levels of management.

• High sense of urgency and ability to work under strict deadlines. Ability to identify creative solutions to time sensitive problems by balancing achievement of objectives with practical considerations.

• Solution oriented, continuous improvement mindset.

• Integrity, reliability and autonomy

Soft Skills

• Inclusive: Passioned for working in different cultures and environments, in a collaborative organization with a diversity team.

• Team Player: Ability to work with others toward a shared goal, participating actively, accountable and committed to the entire team respecting peers, leadership, stakeholders, and clients.

• Inspirational: Excellent oral and written communication skills: Communicate clearly and professionally with Finance and non-Finance professionals within the organization being able to inspire others.

• Decision Maker: Challenge the status quo and make decisions based on your role to be an effective problem solver and use critical thinking skills to find new ideas and connect them to provide the best practices and tools to our stakeholders and clients.

• Flexibility: Adapt and respond to the changing environment and to constructively create opportunities for change through active participation.

Education & Experience

Required:

• College degree in Finance or Accounting.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in Finance and/or Accounting

• Significant achievements in analyzing complex financial data and issues.

Preferred:

• SAP / Tableau experience

• MBA Preferred

• Prior Chemical / Manufacturing industry experience a plus

• Experience with standard costing preferred

Working Conditions

• Annual travel ~ 10%