Financial Analyst - Greater Chicago Area Only

At Bunzl, We Put People First. 

• Bunzl was recognized as one of Forbes 2022 America's Best Mid-Sized Employers.  
• Bunzl is a global company that offers job stability and career growth.
• A full range of great benefits including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, 401(k), educational assistance and much more to help employees take care of themselves and their family.
• A proud commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives driving awareness and creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture.
• A green company with specific programs to enhance and upgrade our business practices and procedures to reduce any harmful effects our activities have on our planet.

An exciting Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote) work opportunity, located in Morton Grove, IL.  The Financial Analyst will be an integral member of the Financial team which includes FP&A, Commercial Finance, and Customer Reporting.  The day-to-day responsibilities will flow between these 3 areas of Finance and will provide exciting opportunities to positively influence the business and gain a broad set of skills. 

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Financial leadership to maintain a strong understanding of the key business drivers, specific business processes and priorities, and future strategic direction of the assigned area.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to ensure strong execution, delivery of customer value and positive business results.
• Monitor the financial health of existing customers and the business development pipeline.
• Support the Financial Reporting process for month end closing including analyzing the results of the period and presenting insights to leadership.
• Develop pricing for RFPs for specific product or service offerings and provide recommendations to Financial and Commercial Leadership.
• Manage the monthly process of Revenue Recognition by developing models/tools to calculate the monthly fees, owning the calculation, and collaborating with the accounting team to process.
• Develop and foster a cross-functional team approach, providing financial management support to all levels of the business team.
• Perform periodic analysis to ensure results are in line with targets and work with leaders across the organization to develop actions to close any gaps.
• Manage certain customer reports including running, reviewing, and distribution to ensure customers receive the data timely and accurately to close their monthly accounting records.
• Develop additional reporting as needed by the business to provide insight and create action plans to improve results.
• Bring a mind-set of continuous improvement to the organization to develop more efficient and better ways to achieve our business objectives.
• Perform advanced analytics to better understand the critical drivers of our business and develop financial models to support the analysis of results.
• Help develop a partnership between Finance and the Functional Areas (Operations, Logistics, IT, Procurement) to foster a collaborative network to understand the pain points, cost drivers, and provide recommendations to manage costs/projects/initiatives including measuring productivity.
• Participate in medium term and strategic planning for the assigned business area.

Requirements:

• Take ownership and be adaptive to the fast-paced nature of the business to manage priorities and pivot as those priorities or scope change.
• Bachelor’s degree required with experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, quantitative analysis, or economics
• At least 3 years of experience in applying analytics principles (Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Business Management, Economics or Finance).
• Strong work ethic with a strong sense of urgency.
• Experience working as the financial liaison on a business team and ability to build and maintain strong cross functional relationships.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Curiosity to understand the intricacies of the business and how things work.
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• Desire to improve the way we work.
• Power BI or other business intelligence tool experience (preferred)
• TM1 and HFM experience (preferred)
• SQL Server Management experience (preferred)
• Data visualization (preferred)
• Intermediate/Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel modeling and financial business modeling (required).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint or data visualization tools to communicate complex ideas to non-technical audiences (required)
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
• No expected travel

So, what are you waiting for? A new career awaits you with endless opportunities.

Bunzl is a global leader in the Cleaning & Hygiene, Food Processing, Grocery, Health Care, Non-Food Retail, and Safety industries. We have grown both organically and through acquisitions to sales in excess of $10 billion.  Bunzl North America is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.  Bunzl North America owns and operates more than 100 warehouses and serves all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada and parts of the Caribbean and Mexico. With more than 5,000 employees and 400,000 plus supplies, Bunzl is regarded as a leading supplier in North America.

Bunzl Distribution offers competitive salaries, a comfortable work environment, and a full range of benefits including a 401k with a company match.

Bunzl Distribution has a tradition of commitment to equal employment opportunity. It is the established policy to attract and retain the best qualified people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status as provided by law.