Financial Analyst – Plant Operations

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.

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The Financial Analyst - Plant Operations role works across the plants and across BU within plant and operations to drive cost visibility & operations finance support. The primary objective of this role is to 1) provide cost visibility and analysis on plant and operational spend in Fiberon & other business units 2) resource for plant & supply chain operations teams as analyst to support financial decisions be it capital investments, cost out opportunities or inventory analysis.

Position location: New London, NC - Hybrid

RESPONSIBLIITIES:

Plant Cost Structure and Inventory Cost Analysis

• Partner with Fiberon operations to understand and analyze cost structure for Fiberon plant specific rates & cost structure including ongoing changes to scope of business & product focus.
• Support monthly/quarterly roll-out of Oracle updates which impacts reporting across inventory and plant costs.
• Partner with inventory costing team in support of analysis and data to ensure proper costed BOMs & views at plant level across Fiberon
• Work directly with Fiberon & other businesses to understand annual volumes for basis of the standard costs and ensure manufacturing facilities are aligned
• Understand Continuous Improvement projects and identify which to include vs exclude from standard costs and forecast variances as needed
• Fulfill support in audit requests relating to product costing as needed along with inventory costing team
• Summarize and communicate impacts across the business while supporting Fiberon operations finance leader

MANUFACTURING SUPPORT:

• Support in the annual manufacturing budget as well as monthly forecasting/actuals analysis
• Prepare monthly manufacturing close summaries across the Fiberon plants and other supply chain analysis required as part of monthly processes & requirements for reporting.
• Support the month end/cost walk package and summary for Fiberon & plant leadership
• Provide analysis/reporting for monthly reporting materials for the Supply Chain Month End Package Review and monthly business reviews
• Review P&L as part of close to ensure results represent the actions and operations ongoing within Fiberon, and support and work with accounting team on closing the books.
• Finance Partner for the local plant leadership teams
• Help prepare analysis to drive OSMI reduction across sites
• Prepare sourcing or other logistics analysis & reporting required for sourcing & distribution/transportation finance leaders as needed

Other Responsibilities:

• Supporting restructuring & ROI models as needed with ongoing changes within Fiberon product portfolio
• Become expert in new reporting EPM as well as analyst supporting validation of new EPM for FBIN
• Assist with other ad hoc duties as necessary

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting is required
• Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant work experience is required. Preferably in a branded goods manufacturing company.
• Must have prior experience in a manufacturing or operations role
• Experience with standard costing and costing systems, as well as experience addressing audits requests 
• Must be proficient in MS Office especially Excel & utilizing EPM systems to automate reporting 
• Self-starter who has had success working in ambiguous situations
• Excellent communication skills- written and verbal
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong ability to partner and engage with all levels of the plant & supply chain operations

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Oracle ERP experience preferred

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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