Senior Financial Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.

We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst – Financial Planning & Analysis for our First Quality Enterprises office located in Great Neck, NY.  As a member of the Enterprise Central Finance team, this role is responsible for transactional and analytical support for general accounting and financial reporting processes, including enterprise-wide analytics and process automation projects by designing, developing, and maintaining solutions to improve business processes and financial analysis. This role also participates in business process internal audit reviews across the organization, as needed.

  

Primary responsibilities include:

• Supports the Enterprise Finance team on group’s internal and external financial analyses, including elimination and consolidation of financial statements, preparation of monthly and quarterly management reporting, preparation of external compliance statements (bank), regulatory and compliance reports (US census, tax planning, etc.).

• Responsible for the preparation, coordination and documentation of financial analysis projects, such as financial and expense performance, rate of return, depreciation, and working capital.

• Provides analysis for forward-looking financial and business-related projects. Prepares budgets/forecasts and analysis of trends in manufacturing, sales, finance, general business conditions, and other related areas.

• Provides financial support and analytics to a wide range of individuals and departments throughout the organization.

• Identifies and develops analytics and automation opportunities for Finance and other First Quality business processes.

• Under the direction of the Senior Director. Strategic Finance, to enhance their company’s business process awareness, participates in end-to-end and/or targeted process and control reviews. Conducts process walkthroughs, documents process narratives and flow charts and evaluates control and process design. Creates and/or executes control testing procedures and documents work performed in accordance with the Department' standards.

• May assume a team lead role a work group

• A specialist on complex technical and business matters

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or similar

• CPA is a plus

• Typically requires 3+ years of related experience.

• Experience in internal audit, internal controls, process improvement and/or alike, involving strong end-to-end process understanding and evaluation.

• Business analysis and project management experience

• Demonstrated experience in driving process improvement and automation.

• Experience with RPA and other automation tools, preferred.

• Analytics driven and tech savvy.

• Experience working independently and leading complex projects

• Strong prioritization and project management skills, including timely, and proactive communication of timelines, and status

• Continuous process improvement mindset

• Intellectual curiosity to help get to the best solutions

• Financial Analysis /Financial Forecasting

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications

• Experience in ERP systems such as SAP

• Knowledge of US GAAP basic principles and elements of internal controls

• Understanding of manufacturing accounting environment

Estimated annual base salary range for this position is 90-100k/year.

Base pay is only part of our total compensation package, which also includes an attractive annual discretionary bonus and robust suite of employee benefits for which you are eligible to participate in starting on your first day of employment.

Base pay offered will be determined on an individualized basis and we will consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

What We Offer You

We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities

• Paid time off (three-week minimum)

• Medical, dental and vision starting day one

• 401(k) with employer match

• Paid parental leave

• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)

• Bundle of joy benefit (years’ worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)

• Tuition assistance

• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums

• ...and more!

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations.  As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.

First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.