POSITION: NA Manager, Accounting and Planning



REPORTS TO: NA Director, Accounting and Planning



GRADE: 18



LOCATION: Manchester, MI

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Basic Functions



The Manager, Accounting and Planning, supports the North American Rigid Plastics Region ($2.3B sales), comprised of two (2) Business Units and multiple shared or central service functions supporting 29 locations throughout the contiguous United States and Canada. The role operates as an individual contributor and at least one (1) future direct report is likely.

The role leads and owns the following core areas / cycles: 1) annual operating plan; 2) activity-based costing segmentation (actual and budget); 3) capital spending (budget, actual and forecast); 4) capital project requests; 5) capital accounting policy; 6) co-chair committees / councils; 7) balance sheet / cash flow analysis (budget, actual and forecast); and 8) financial and accounting training support (Excel, BPC, SAP, 'Accounting 101' for managers, etc.).

The role is hands-on, requiring the successful candidate to function effectively at both detailed and summary management support levels. The candidate must also successfully manage complex relationships in a matrix organization across multiple disciplines, including senior level management.



Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Annual Operating Plan:

• Responsible for overall NA planning and communication of milestones, including active / frequent monitoring of progress for major activities; frequent communication(s) with ARP BG personnel also required

• Plan and conduct frequent status update meetings

• Partner with BU leaders to agree on use of adjusting entities to track financial impact of overlay projects

• Provide and/or coordinate user training for SAP BPC primary and feeder applications

• Ensure reporting needs for NA Accounting Shared Services and BU's are met timely and completely

• Work with NA / BG leaders to identify, execute and monitor process improvements

• Ensure NA data loading processes and input templates are effectively designed, executed and documented

• NA Accounting lead / subject matter expert / power user for BPC software administration, maintenance and improvement; coordinate data loading, pushes, etc. with NA IT Shared Services and BG personnel; provide BPC back-up support to Accounting Shared Services personnel

• Own activity-based costing segmentation (income statement, balance sheet and cash flow) system / financial model / input template design, function, reporting, training, problem resolution, enhancement and work instruction / process flow documentation

• Collaborate with BU / Shared Service leaders to develop segment % splits for Division Office departments

• Partner with BU and Shared Service leaders to develop and consolidate detailed capital requirements based on existing and new project spending requests, including monthly cash flow spending assumptions, capital statistical data loading into BPC and related reporting to BG

• Develop presentation material / PowerPoint slides

• Responsible for developing BPC reports / books and publishing electronic booklets

















Monthly Actual:

• NA activity-based-costing segmentation subject matter expert: own activity-based costing segmentation (income statement, balance sheet and cash flow) system / model design, function, reporting, training, problem resolution and enhancement

• Analyze fallouts and address problems during month-end close cycle; ensure results (income statement, balance sheet and cash flow) are properly segmented

• Initiate SAP jobs, update SAP allocation cycles for new entities/ manufacturing process, new profit centers

• Ensure Division Office BU/segment % splits are uploaded into SAP table annually

• Partner with BU Division Office / field finance personnel to perform segment deep dive reviews of targeted plant sites to ensure design & execution is consistent, accurate and effective; travel as required

• Collaborate with BU and Shared Service personnel to identify and implement improvements within SAP ECC, BPC and PMDB Plus for NA segmentation processes

• Lead efforts to assess, modify / implement segment drivers used in SAP

• Support SAP master data (i.e. product hierarchy) updates, as required, working jointly with IT / Supply Chain

• Provide segmentation training for user community; create and modify work instructions / process flows

• Monthly management (""mPac"") report owner: modify, analyze, refresh and publish segment reports

• Other monthly data loading: primary backup support for Supply Chain weekly data collection / load process into BPC; own Excel data input template and output reports used by Supply Chain

• Analyze actual and develop forecast for balance sheet and cash flow statement (consolidated NA / BU)

Capital (Actual and Forecast):

• Co-chair ARP BG capital spending / review council and summarize / present actual and forecasted capital spending to ARP BG President and CFO

• Responsible for planning capital spending review council meeting dates / times; consolidate & analyze capital forecast data; modify / own and publish capital forecast template to Regions

• Work with BU and Shared Service areas to develop and maintain current / future year perpetual capital forecasts (committed / cash based)

• Own NA capital project submission (CEAV) process using electronic approval database / administrator; own new user security requests and work with IT on the design and function of the electronic cover page

• Design, modify and publish CEAV financial model templates

• Provide training on the use / requirements for the CEAV electronic approval database; identify improvements

• Review and approve BU field CEAV projects for completion / full disclosure, content / justification, correct classification between capital and expense, deviation from policy, etc.

• Prepare Shared Service CEAV documents

• Provide leadership, counsel and training to CEAV user community / preparers; ensure solid understanding and adherence to published capital accounting policy

• Ensure CEAV electronic database archiving needs are addressed

• Update existing capital accounting policy documents on intranet; monitor overall business conditions and work with BU and Shared Services to identify policy gaps / opportunities for improvement / clarification

Other:



• Co-chair NA Regional segmentation improvement council

• One of several NA power users / resources for BPC and PMDB Plus tools

• Provide cross training between team members and formally document work procedures

• Partner with BU and Shared Service Accounting groups to identify finance and accounting software training needs (BPC, SAP, Excel, PMDB Plus, etc.); implement and manage ongoing accounting and finance training regiment / course offerings

• Work with NA Regional leaders to develop 'Accounting 101' class for the non-accountants; develop course content, frequency, documentation, etc.

• Develop financial forecasting models (income statement, balance sheet and cash flow), as needed

• Support Internal Control Environment testing / compliance, as appropriate

• Prepare ad hoc analysis and participate in / lead other business initiatives / projects, as needed

• Identify and recommend changes to current processes: act as change agent

Education & Experience Required



• Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance is required (CPA, MBA a plus)

• Minimum 10+ years of financial-related experience in a manufacturing environment in positions of increasing responsibilities

• Understands financial statement relationships between balance sheet, income and cash flow statements; demonstrated experience developing / modeling financial statements

• Strong IT systems aptitude (preference to candidates with SAP ERP / BPC experience)

• Strong Microsoft Excel user who understands and applies advanced Excel features

• Demonstrated experience managing / leading large / complex projects in matrix organization

• Demonstrated experience managing, coaching and developing one or more direct reports

• Experience developing & leading annual budget, periodic forecasting & monthly close process

• Experience developing & analysing complex financial models and what-if scenarios

• Clearly understands accounting concepts, transactional flow (t-accounts) and financial terminology; understands cost accounting

• Experience working in large, complex and multi-location manufacturing organization