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Role – Director Finance, Supply Chain Internal Plant Operations *In-office (Springdale, Arkansas HQ), possible flex* Job Description: The Director of Finance for Supply Chain Internal Plant Operations is a critical leader within the Supply Chain Finance Team, responsible for overseeing financial activities across 10-12 plants and managing a team of up to 35 employees. Reporting to the Vice President of Operations, this role involves extensive collaboration with Business Unit Operations and Finance Teams to provide crucial costing analysis, supporting strategic decision-making within the commercial team. The position requires exceptional communication skills and the ability to foster effective partnerships across a matrixed organization. The Director will balance meeting financial commitments with developing strategies for long-term growth, overseeing plant-level finance and accounting activities, and ensuring value-added business partnering with the Operations team. Key Responsibilities: Team Leadership and Collaboration: Lead and develop a team of 10-12 direct reports and a total team of 35. Foster a collaborative "One Team" approach with individual business units to drive productivity and long-term initiatives. Build strong relationships with Plant Controllers to enhance productivity and operational improvements. Financial Planning and Analysis: Oversee weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial reporting and analysis, comparing results against projections and budgets. Provide strategic oversight for network optimization, capital deployment, and capacity planning. Enhance the capital planning process and improve cash investment/return analytics. Business Partnering: Act as a business partner to the Vice President of Operations, advocating for the needs of the Business Teams to meet financial commitments. Support innovation initiatives to ensure viable go-to-market strategies and sustainable business models. Collaborate with Finance teams to reduce non-value-added work, focusing on activities that provide insight and impact. Strategic Oversight: Identify and execute cost productivity opportunities. Lead monthly and quarterly forecasting processes in collaboration with business teams. Monitor and communicate performance across key metrics, providing guidance on financial scenarios and forecasts. Requirements: Education and Certifications: Undergraduate degree in Finance or Accounting. Experience: Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience. Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel; knowledge of SAP is beneficial. Strong communication skills, capable of engaging at all organizational levels. Supervisory Experience: Experience managing 10-12 direct reports and an overall team of 35. Travel: Willingness to travel up to 50%. Location: Based at Springdale, AR Headquarters. #PermIL2024

Role – Sr. Financial Reporting Analyst *Hybrid (3 days a week on-site)* Job Summary: The Senior Financial Reporting Analyst will play a crucial role in the accounting and reporting functions for complex areas. This position is instrumental in determining the appropriate accounting treatment for significant and unusual transactions. The role offers an excellent opportunity for problem-solving, recommending solutions, and driving process changes as company continues to grow and evolve. Job Description: The Senior Financial Reporting Analyst will be essential in managing accounting and reporting for diverse accounting areas. This role will be a key player in determining the appropriate accounting treatment for significant and unusual transactions. It offers the chance to solve problems, recommend solutions, and drive process improvements as company develops. Job Responsibilities: Serve as the primary contact and subject matter expert for a specific technical accounting area within the financial reporting group, such as stock compensation, EPS, leases, asset retirement obligations, revenue recognition, pensions and post-retirement benefits, or natural gas derivatives. This includes preparing related journal entries, reconciliations, and 10Q and 10K disclosures. Participate in preparing financial statements and disclosures for external issuance, ensuring compliance with SEC and FASB accounting and reporting requirements. Assist with other technical accounting areas and reporting functions, which may include benefit plan audits, asset fair value testing, supporting the Investor Relations team (including accounting reviews of quarterly earnings releases, investor presentations, and call scripts), and other accounting-related projects as needed. Act as a technical accounting resource in reviewing and evaluating extraordinary and atypical business transactions, or new SEC rules and accounting standards updates, to determine the appropriate accounting and external reporting treatment. Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting. CPA certification or active CPA candidate. Strong technical knowledge of U.S. GAAP and internal controls over financial reporting. At least 5 years of progressively responsible accounting experience in private industry, with experience in technical accounting and/or financial reporting. Public accounting experience is preferred. Knowledge of FASB and SEC rules and regulations, with the ability to apply business and financial concepts. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications. Experience with Workiva and SAP is a plus. #PermIL2024  

FP&A Manager - SAP | Hybrid - Chicago | Up to $125k + Bonus + LTI The SAP FP&A (SAC) will work with the Finance team to establish solutions and processes primarily within SAP. This role will be responsible for providing guidance on transactional process flows and system procedures within SAP, specifically for planning (covering sales, COGS, Capital Project, Opex, and Workforce), have a deep understanding of key financial statements and how they integrate with each other, and strong experience in profitability/margin analysis. This experience will cover both S/4 HANA and ideally SAC. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Assist with the implementation and development of SAC/S4HANA solutions and processes across all markets as they go live. Plan and complete all implementation deliverables to deadlines for portfolio projects and enhancements. Support the design and build, testing, data migration, and change management to SAP S4 HANA. Produce high quality and concise project, user training, and user support content in different suitable formats. Help oversee system operational responsibilities such as data integrity checking, systems setups, and other related duties. Prepare and deliver systems and process demos, exercises, training, and conceptual presentations to engage and upskill the user community. Resolve user issues in a timely manner, directly or through liaising with support teams (i.e. IT). Collaborate with finance operations and supply chain areas to assess system application security, enhancement needs, and process transformation. Create and identify use cases, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and proper test scripts to conduct UAT and integration testing. Ensure correct process flows and address operational needs during the implementation, interim state for each phase, and Go Live/Run Phase. Develop and document Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Finance operations system processes. Provide regular status updates to SAP and Business leadership. Adhere to deadlines, both internally and cross-functionally, to meet close responsibilities by ensuring implementation is not delayed. Perform other duties as assigned by management. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in FP&A, data analytics, etc. 4+ years of SAP Finance FICO experience. 2+ years of experience with S4 HANA and SAC. Experience with an SAP Implementation. Extensive hands-on experience with SAP data structure and reporting requirements. Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and MS Office, including working with large amounts of data. Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to work independently in a highly organized manner. Experience working in a publicly traded manufacturing or CPG company a plus. Public accounting experience preferred. Experience with an SAP Implementation.

Brilliant Financial Staffing has been engaged in the search for a Manager FP&A for one of our clients in the financial services industry, located in Chicago, IL. The Manager FP&A will be responsible for budgeting, forecasting, modeling, financial analysis, and accounting responsibility that are focused on supporting the financial operations, valuation, and gross margin analysis. Our client is looking to hire immediately and has opted to open this position on a contract to hire basis. Qualified candidates will be considered immediately and begin the interview process. RESPONSIBILITIES Participate in lean initiatives and improvement programs across the various operating functions adopting a hands-on approach. Drives objectives within the team and responsible for maintaining the periodic goals to meet the year end objectives Develops and/or assists in developing budgets, reporting, and forecasting of expense and capital projects, guide corporate functions and business teams in the budget process Manage and monitor Income Statements and consolidations for supported businesses and corporate functions. Drive actionable information and advice to corporate and business teams. Evaluate financial outcomes of various decision alternatives; advise on key business planning assumptions, identify, and quantify risks and/or opportunities Translate content needed for senior level presentations; ensure content provided meets requirements; assist in preparation of presentations for senior management Provide ad-hoc analysis and financial modeling support to the corporate function and business leader Implement standardized processes and utilize various reporting tools to provide efficient and transparency financial analysis Ability to develop recommendations/solutions to problems encountered in day-to-day work. Support close process and project reporting Supports financial integration activities Assist in preparation of presentations for senior management Seek out ways to continuously improve processes; support project analysis and input on business cases and provide additional support across corporate Provide direction and leadership to analysts across FP&A team Other duties may be assigned QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance or a related field or local equivalent with an advanced degree preferred Minimum 5-8 years of Finance & Accounting experience Insurance experience a plus but not required. Demonstrate effective financial, strategic, and executive leadership. She or he will appreciate the rigorous, analytical requirements of a public company, and have exposure to build the requisite infrastructure to support those needs within the business Ability to plan, organize, prioritize work, and handle multiple projects and deadlines in a complex business environment Strong skills in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Tableau and Workday G/L and Adaptive experience a plus but not required. Strong knowledge of Excel including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs and formulas Strong knowledge of financial statements (income statements, balance sheets and cash flows). Ability to work through shifting priorities and deadlines Strong modeling skills Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral with the ability to communicate complex business information to a range of non-finance audiences. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and computer skills Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Tools, specifically Excel, comfortable with pivot tables and lookups, and Power Point required Experience with a major ERP System (Oracle, SAP, Net Suite, etc.)