Sr Financial Analyst

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Start your career journey with Univar Solutions! Here you can make an impact on the world around you and accelerate your career in areas that energize and excite you.

What You'll Do:

Strategic Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

• Business partner to global product management leaders
• Prepares long and short term forecasts of the global financial performance to include development of performance commitments, resource requirements, scorecards and metrics for internal and external use.
• Ensures integrity of business financial data through design of cost and capital flows, detailed analysis and facilitating the correction of source data.
• Provides detailed analysis related to asset allocation (human and capital) and works with management to recommend changes in support of the regional financial goals.
• Preparation of the Fixed Asset Investment Plan for the Region to include authorization economics, document and checkpoints and Operating Budget, profit planning, estimates and management reporting for the Region.
• Participates in the Plan & Allocate Resources process to include long-term financial planning, business valuation, capital budgeting and capital authorizations.
• Design, standardize and streamline global reports using multiple reporting tools including Tableau
• Evaluate monthly financial results, providing valuable insights and analysis to global leaders and drive business decisions
• Translate data into timely and meaningful management insights through the right metrics and interpretation

Special Projects/Analysis

• Completion and/or participation in special projects requested by management.
• Preparation of specific analyses on a periodic basis, such as, for example:
• Provides business decision support to include financial modeling and analysis related to operations, facilities and optimization and SWOT analysis for specific business topics/functions.
• Analyzes economic consequences of regional alternative courses of actions and recommendation of value-maximizing decisions (i.e., resource allocation decisions, pricing, and contracts with customers).

What You'll Need:

• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or Economics required.
• Three to five years (minimum) work experience with a track record of continual promotion to progressively more responsible positions.
• Highly motivated with positive attitude who embraces change and is a champion for continuous improvement
• Strong financial and accounting background; good operational understanding of the business.
• Ability to be procedurally oriented; strong administrative background and ability to implement new policies and procedures from written documentation.
• Critical thinking in review of results and problem solving
• Ability to adapt quickly and learn new tasks independently, while managing competing priorities
• Prior financial experience in chemicals, distribution and related industries is a plus
• Strong Excel skills, including lookups, sumifs and pivots tables.
• SQL or Tableau experience
• One Stream experience preferred

Where You'll Work:

This is a hybrid based role that will sit out of our Woodlands, TX location

What You Can Expect:

• Strong work/life flexibility
• To be surrounded by an inclusive team who is collaborative and committed to the achievement of the company
• To be rewarded for your contributions with a targeted annual company bonus and annual salary reviews
• Competitive pay and benefits

Univar Solutions is a leading, global distributor of chemicals and ingredients essential to the safety, health, and wellbeing of our daily lives from life-saving medicines and vitamins to hand sanitizers and industrial materials used for cleaning, construction, and more. Our global team of more than 9,500 employees support our vision to redefine distribution and be the most valued chemical and ingredient distributor on the planet!

We offer a Total Rewards package that includes market aligned pay and incentives as well as a diverse benefits offering to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing .

Univar Solutions supports sustainable solutions for the world around us so that we can do our part to help keep our communities healthy, fed, clean, and safe!

We are committed to a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion. Together, we are building a culture that acknowledges the unique experiences, perspectives and expertise of individuals and provides the development and growth opportunities to empower us to redefine our industry.

Univar Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected classification.

Univar Solutions does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or staffing firms (collectively Recruiting Firms). Recruiting Firms must enter into a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with Univar Solutions prior to submitting any information relating to a potential candidate. All searches must be initiated by Univar Solutions' Talent Acquisition team and candidates must be submitted via Applicant Tracking System (ATS) by approved vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless the aforementioned conditions have been met. Contacting our hiring managers directly is prohibited.