Support the Company's overall expense management process, focusing on ensuring optimal use of Company resources and ultimately protecting or maintaining product value and financial strength either at the corporate level or for an assigned function/department.
Requirements
- Interacts with executive officers, department heads, and other members of senior management to provide meaningful expense management consultation and analysis and presents recommendations to aid in decision-making.
- Proactively identifies issues and facilitates discussions to resolve those issues across functions and departments.
- Independently meets with managers and directors to understand department operations and resulting cost structure.
- Coordinates monthly reporting of all expenses to meet financial reporting needs of the department.
- Monitors spend, develops forecasts and budgets and analyzes expense results.
- Applies creativity and innovation in identifying process improvements and other opportunities for the function/departments to better manage expenses or reduce spend.
- Responsible for building complex financial models to predict and understand the business as well as actual results.
- Assures that all expense activity follows the appropriate accounting controls, policies and procedures and is appropriately accounted for on the general ledger in compliance with statutory and/or GAAP accounting standards.
- May be responsible for developing strategies to best utilize systems and maintaining expertise over financial reporting systems (Such as PeopleSoft, IBM TM1 system, Apptio, or Project Portfolio Management).
- May be responsible for corporate expense projections, metrics, accounting for payroll, fixed assets and intercompany charges between NM and its subsidiaries, procure to pay process or other corporate processes.
- Leads special projects and assignments related to expense management, product line allocations, financial reporting, process improvements, or other projects as requested by division leaders.
- Collaborates with other enterprise resources in Human Resources, Corporate Strategy or Planning Coordinators.
