Senior Financial Analyst

Company: Stanley Black & Decker
Location: New Britain
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

Job Description Our Organization, Stanley Black & Decker:

We are for the builders and protectors, for the makers and explorers, for those shaping and reshaping our world through hard work and inspiration, Stanley Black & Decker provides the tools and innovative solutions you can trust to get the job done-and we have since 1843.--We join forces to bring together the best of the best to create practical, meaningful products and services that make life easier-empowering people to do better safer, more significant work. We define success as delivering value to our customers, colleagues, and communities. Our commitment to quality, safety, and--sustainability--helps us on our path to becoming the type of uniquely human-centered global industrial company that keeps every stakeholder in mind while helping to make the world better.

Job Description
This role is a unique opportunity to participate in and drive Stanley Black and Decker's publicly announced $1B company-wide margin resiliency initiative. In this role, the candidate will primarily focus on the validation and acceleration of sustainable cost savings initiatives across the company. The resiliency initiative will provide frequent exposure to corporate and business unit executive leadership and will drive accountability to target achievement. The candidate will have an opportunity to directly impact Stanley Black and Decker's future success as well as broaden their skillset through valuable experiences.
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Unique aspects of this role:

• High visibility and full autonomy to build relationships through frequent interaction with corporate and business unit leadership
• Dealing with large data sets and creating dashboard views for leadership through various tools
• Ability to partner with external firms used to support Margin Resiliency initiatives
• Assist in developing business cases, initiatives, features, stories or other required documents applying best practice methodologies and enforcing standards
• Ability to help assess and validate benefits and costs for programs within Margin Resiliency as well as other high visibility programs within SBD Recurring Job Responsibilities:
  Drive Active Project Management:
  • Assist in developing and deploying challenging value-driven targets across the organization
  • Partner with executive leadership to drive overall target achievement and accountability
  • Create weekly updates for the leadership team on the status of streams--
  • Report findings by creating useful and appropriate data outputs and visualizations tailored for intended audiences --
    Executive Leader Business Partnering:
    • Full autonomy around building relationships with initiative owners and Corporate finance leadership
    • Provide enhanced analysis and reporting, support in target setting, governance and policy implementation
    • Manage monthly risks and opportunities update
    • Liaise between the corporate leader and business units and participate in executive steer meetings --
      Improve Controls And Toolset:
      • Responsible for measuring and monitoring savings performance through monthly reviews, key metrics, action plans, and reporting
      • Partners with internal stakeholders to provide recommendations --
        Education Required
        • Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or MBA --
          Key Qualities And Preferable Work Experience
          • At least 4 Years' Experience, With A Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or MBA
          • Experience in a dynamic, large company environment
          • Experience with financial analysis, reporting, and/or budgeting
          • Project Management experience
          • Strong cross-functional experience and relationship building is a plus
          • Proven leadership skills, solid oral and written communicator, strong interpersonal skills, generate solutions/recommendations to issues before the topic is presented to management
          • Experience with process improvements and optimization a plus strong presentation and leadership capabilities
          • Ability to manipulate large data sets and interest with data visualization tools --
            --All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or any other protected characteristic.
            -- Requisition Number 72897BR Business US - Corporate No. of Positions 1 EEO Statement All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status or any other protected characteristic.

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