The Commercial Finance teams for Nalco Water Light and North America Mining are looking for Senior Financial Analyst. This role provides direct support to the sales and marketing team. This role serves as a key financial advisor and value-added business partner to the NA Sales team, helping to drive sales growth and safeguarding the profitability of the business. Additionally, this role acts as a strategic partner with marketing leadership in GMI, innovation and digital realization, and supply chain efficiency projects.

What’s in it For You:

• The opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy and healthy environments
• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best

What You Will Do:

• Create and review Proforma P&Ls, PCAFs and other key support analytics for assessing new and existing business opportunities
• Build customer P&Ls to examine profitability for new and existing opportunities, support the contract negotiation process with customers, and lead PCAF (Proposed Contract Authorization Form) process to support internal approvals and documentation
• Partner with field sales managers to understand and provide recommendations regarding product pricing, rebate programs, and contract compliance
• Work directly with the NA Sales team to understand and communicate the impact of their sales activity
• Identify gross margin improvement (GMI) initiatives, track and quantify the financial impact of those initiatives, and collaborate with marketing and sales teams to implement at the customer level
• Work directly with marketers and scientists on innovation projects and provide marketing team support on financial insights and analysis, and new product program rollouts, sales incentive programs, and promotions
• Conduct complex financial analysis
• Develop internal and customer-facing reporting and analytics on an ad hoc basis
• Drive process improvement and best practices within CAF team
• Track project Capex
• Additional project work as needed

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline
• Minimum 2+ years of finance, business, or consulting experience
• No immigration sponsorship available for this position

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related discipline
• Strong analytical aptitude and organizational skills, high attention to detail and the ability to work independently
• Must demonstrate overall business acumen and ability to deal with ambiguity
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Advanced spreadsheet, presentation, and financial systems skills (preferable experience with SAP, PowerBI, and Oracle EPM, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)

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In addition, we are committed to furthering the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) through Affirmative Action (AA). Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, disabled and covered veteran individuals at all levels of the workforce. Ecolab is a place where you can grow your career, own your future and impact what matters.

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