Financial Analyst
Caring for skin means caring for people.
It all started with a pharmacist and a dream almost 140 years ago. Today, Beiersdorf is a global company with iconic brands — Coppertone, Aquaphor, Eucerin and NIVEA — focused on providing innovative, clinically-proven and safe skin and sun care solutions to more than 500 million consumers in over 200 countries — making people feel comfortable in their own skin.
At Beiersdorf, we care beyond skin. We care for people — our employees, our customers, our consumers and our communities — and our planet. We know that diversity of thought, backgrounds, experience and perspective enriches our culture and fosters innovation and ingenuity. We know that responsibly-sourced, sustainable products and packaging make for a more sustainable future. And we know that when your skin feels better, you feel better.
A welcoming workplace that offers personal and professional growth for all individuals.
At Beiersdorf, you’ll find:
- A welcoming workplace that fosters diversity, inclusion and belonging where every team member feels valued, respected, and supported
- Nimble teams that enjoy challenging work and the ability to make an impact
- A dynamic community of life-long learners that values acumen, proficiency and the ability to learn as well as hard skills and established expertise
- A purpose-led company that cares about your personal and professional development with the right balance of structure and flexibility to thrive
- A collaborative culture that leads with care, trust, simplicity and courage
Unique benefits that consider the whole person.
We understand that you have a life outside of work, and we support you with unique benefits including:
- Generous and flexible PTO policy
- Summer Friday hours
- Paid Parental Leave
- Comprehensive Wellness and Benefits program
- Cash Balance Plan (similar to a pension)
- 401k match
- Growing number of Employee Resource Groups or affinity groups - to foster meaningful connections and belonging with other colleagues
- Dynamic work model – a hybrid of 3 days in-office collaboration and 2 remote focused work days.
Experience, skills and competencies that lend themselves to this role:
We know that experience comes in all forms and we’re not necessarily looking for individuals who can get going quickly (‘check all the boxes’) but may bring a unique blend of competence and capabilities that can grow into a role and/or bring news skills to the team.
Overview:
The Finance Analyst will join a high performing team which requires strong collaboration with business partners in order to optimize the business performance and improve analytics. The team is focused on personal growth and has many opportunities for visibility via projects, operational improvement and business partnering.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for supporting the Brand Finance team in pulling key reporting information and producing variance analysis to drive commercial decisions
- Support the delivery of Financial Plans (Annual Plans, Monthly and Quarterly Forecasts)
- Responsible for updating, tracking and analyzing Marketing investments across the business and providing insightful scorecards around important metrics and post monthly journal entries for Marketing accruals
- Provide Marketing teams with a thorough understanding of how well plans are being implemented from a financial perspective through use of tools such as SAP and Excel
- Implement periodic (monthly/quarterly) internal control audit checks and help ensure the integrity of our systems
- Support team in figuring out financial opportunities or risks related to new product launches, measuring against financial hurdles
- Act as the team liaison to master data, responsible for the maintenance of financial data within SAP
- Be an advocate for demonstrating system solutions that drive ease of use and efficiency in all business support functions
- Actively and openly support key business objectives. Provide honest communication on issues that may be impediments to reaching the Company’s goals.
- Perform other ad hoc requests as needed across the Commercial Finance area
Requirements:
- BS/BA required
- 1 -2 years of similar experience at a Consumer Products Company preferred
- 1-2 years of accounting and other financial experience in other types of roles (i.e. Cost Accounting, General Accounting, etc) are a plus
- Very strong business analytics skills and robust examples of taking initiative to get results
- Ability to multitask and work under pressure while prioritizing deliverables to ensure deadlines are met
- Possess the understanding of basic accounting and finance (P&L, Balance Sheet construction)
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively and form relationships
- Strong communication skills both written and verbally with emphasis on being comfortable building and delivering effective PowerPoint presentations
- Must enjoy working in systems and analyzing data with solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office package (advanced in Excel), SAP and Power BI.
Additional information:
At Beiersdorf, we embrace Diversity and aim to provide equal opportunities to all of our applicants – regardless of e.g. gender, sexual identity, nationality, ethnicity, religion or ideology, disability or age. We would therefore kindly ask you to include only information and data in your documents which are relevant for the assessment of your application (e.g. curriculum vitae with relevant references and certificates). For instance, please feel free to upload your CV without a picture.
Beiersdorf North America Company Culture Highlights
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Outlook 2024
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Sales Team 2023, 2024
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Leadership Teams 2023
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Culture 2023
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Compensation 2022, 2023
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Happiest Employees 2022,2023
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Diversity 2022
- Beiersdorf North America is ranked in the top 5% of companies for CEO rating on Comparably
- Beiersdorf North America is ranked in the top 10% of companies for Leadership rating on Comparably
Check us out on Comparably: https://www.comparably.com/companies/beiersdorf
Having trouble applying? Go to www.BeiersdorfUSA.com to search our careers page. Beiersdorf is an Equal Opportunity Employer.