Financial Analyst

PPG Industries Inc. - Cranberry Regional Office, Cranberry

PPG: We protect and beautify the world.

At PPG, we work every day to develop and deliver the paints, coatings and materials that our customers have trusted for more than 130 years. Through dedication and creativity, we solve our customers’ biggest challenges, collaborating closely to find the right path forward. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, we operate and innovate in more than 70 countries. We serve customers in construction, consumer products, industrial and transportation markets and aftermarkets. To learn more, visit www.ppg.com and follow @ PPG on Twitter.

 

Why join us:

With PPG, you will find meaning in your work every day, and engage in opportunities that will shape you, personally and professionally.

• Your personal strengths will empower you to succeed and make an impact from day one.
• You will be inspired to learn and grow, and to get the support you need to identify and achieve your boldest career aspirations.
• Your passion to excel will be fueled by your connection to world-class partners, industry experts, the best and brightest colleagues, and future forward technologies.
• Your contributions will not only meet the challenges of our global customers, but help theme propel their industries forward.
• You will be welcomed into a culture where everyone’s ideas and contributions are valued and encouraged.

Just like you, we are driven to make a difference in our world.

 

The Global Marketing Financial Analyst’s primary role is to provide financial guidance and analysis to drive accountability and decision making across the marketing function within Architectural Coatings.  This position will manage and track all marketing, promotion and innovation spend across the Architectural business.  This position will also manage the monthly closing cycle, reporting, estimating and support the development of the annual marketing plan.  This position will also work closely with the marketing teams and third party vendors to develop analytical modeling to calculate the return on investment of various media, promotion, and other marketing tactics to optimize investment mix.   

 

This position will report directly to the Director of Finance – Home Centers and also work closely with upper management including the VP Global Strategic Marketing and General Manager USCA Home Centers along with the Brand Managers for each product line and channel.   

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop common global processes and procedures for managing, analyzing and tracking global expenditures across marketing, promotion and innovation

• Assess and identify areas for efficiency gains across our expenditures

• Prepare and present the marketing spending forecast and actuals, highlighting key deviations from Plan and prior year.

• Own the accounting activities/processes involving marketing sales curve and adstock journal entries in USCA

• Develop a process to forecast and optimize the ordering of Point of Sales (POS) materials across the business

• Develop consistent Return on Investment (ROI) modeling across the SBU to assess media, promotions and other marketing tactics and provide recommendations to leadership on recommended mix to support the business strategy

• Support the development of the annual marketing plan and the marketing investment review process

• Work with the business to prepare ACTs for capital projects related to color center displays

• Provide any ad hoc analysis as required by marketing/finance.  This includes detailed product profitability analysis across channels, pricing recommendations and analysis of POS trends across various channels. 

 

Experience and Education: 

• The candidate must have a Bachelor's degree in a business related field and at least 5 to 7 years of relevant experience.  MBA is highly preferred.  

Functional and Technical Skills:

• Must possess strong communication and interpersonal skills and have the ability to provide detailed information to management in a summarized and succinct manner.  Must have strong leadership potential and ability to analyze and interpret financial data and determine appropriate course of action.  Must be able to work in a fast paced environment and be able to react quickly to change. 

• Proficiency in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint strongly recommended.
• Knowledge of Hyperion Essbase Reporting/Hyperion Planning preferred by not mandatory.
• Knowledge of SAP preferred by not mandatory
• Systems used include: Hyperion Essbase/SAP/COGNOS

Success Factors – Prime Success Factors (focus on results, drive change, promote teamwork, build trust & respect, and understand market & customer perspective) plus the following:

• Take Responsibility
• Size up Situations
• Solve Problems
• Manage Complexity
• Build Strong Work Relationships
• Communicate & Share Information
• Plan and Organize

 

PPG prides itself on the quality of its employees and as such, candidates who receive a job offer will be required to successfully pass a hair drug/toxins test and a background check.

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Posted: 30+ days ago

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