Finance Business Partner, Commerical

As the Commercial Financial Business Partner, you will be the financial liaison between the Commercial Functional Area (FA) and Accounting / Finance.  You will provide financial guidance and support to the leadership of Commercial, including developing, analyzing and interpreting statistical and accounting information to appraise the operating results of the FA in terms of cost, budgets, policies, trends and increased profit opportunities.  Manage the Planning process to ensure alignment of the Commercial business unit with corporate strategies and tactics.  Coordinate and manage the financial impact of all strategies and tactics driven by Commercial. 

• Comprehensively manage the finances for the Commercial functional area, including managing the annual budgeting process, LE (Latest Estimate) updates, Long Range Plan projections, forecast updates, period close and reporting processes. 
• Conduct financial analysis of the functional area, both periodic and ad hoc as needed, to evaluate and explain variances from Plan/LE/LY and advise FA leadership on trends to point out opportunities or weaknesses in financial performance. 
• Advise FA leadership on all decisions having a financial impact to the Company by providing opinions and analyses to support decisions including customer level analysis. 
• Administer, design, and implement accounting policies and procedures impacting the functional area. 
• Collaborate with other Financial Business Partners, including those with direct impacts on Commercial (e.g., IT, Merchandising, HR), to ensure any impacts to Commercial financial results are considered.  
• Manage the ARS (Approval Request System) process by evaluating proposed projects to determine if the costs are justified by the potential benefits. This involves modeling reasonable assumptions of quantifiable benefits and comparing the results to the corporate hurdle rate and providing internal rate of return (IRR) justification to Senior Management for review / approval of proposed projects. Perform ad hoc project evaluations and financial analysis. 
• Manage and provide direction and supervision to a team of five individuals – Commercial Accounting Senior Manager, Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Analyst, Associate Financial Analyst, and Senior Financial Analyst shared with Commercial Credit.
   

• Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) or equivalent 
• MBA or Master’s in Accountancy 
• Seven to eight years of work experience, including public accounting experience 
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Preferred