R10056254 Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (On-site) (Open)

Location:

Long Beach, CA - Management - Regional Office

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

Position: Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Location: Long Beach, CA
Target Base Salary Range: $100,000 - $120,000 (DOE)

This role serves as a business partner and concentrates on identifying, understanding and communicating key cost drivers to the P&L, performing variance analyses, coordinating with the business finance leaders regarding revenue metrics for current and future performance or future revenue streams. This position will also coordinate with other organizational departments and headcount allocation matters, designs and maintains tools for the analysis of the cost structure, amongst other ad hoc responsibilities. This position must establish and maintain strong relationships with operations staff and internal client groups, operations and finance staff with strong communication and customer service skills. Extensive communication, data-collection and management with many internal clients.

• Manage monthly financial close/forecasting process; deliver accurate financial results including comprehensive analysis of key expense and balance sheet items; review journal entries related to assigned functional responsibilities; exhibit understanding of general accounting
• Manage operations of various regional incentive & gain-share programs
• Track and analyze forecasts vs. budget; identifying key risks and opportunities; ensure all risks and opportunities are appropriately reflected in the forecast and forward projections
• Utilize, review and analyze daily, monthly and quarterly reports to provide business partners with ongoing financial insight into operational efficiencies; assess and communicate spending reduction opportunities; identify problem areas early; make recommendations to mitigate risk
• Monitor business performance, providing reporting on KPIs versus forecast, including detailed explanations to all variances and the creation of action plans and recommendations for improvement vs. goals
• Prepare special projects and ad-hoc financial analysis as required
• Develop annual budgets and long range plans that meet all corporate requirements, are aligned with divisional strategies and incorporate recommendations for all key business partners
• Routine communication with VP of Finance relating to financial close, issues and deliverables
• Develop variance analysis and explanations
• Organize presentations and effectively communicate to director level and above
• Understand the interaction of systems and the impact to financial reporting.
• Develop value-added cross-divisional and cross-functional partnerships to maintain awareness of business activities, and leverage knowledge and best practices

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Are you a MATCH?

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting or equivalent required. CPA or MBA preferred
• 5-10 years of related experience
• Strong knowledge of financial and accounting concepts
• Proficiency in Power BI report development preferred

About Airgas

Airgas, an Air Liquide company, is a leading U.S. supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, as well as hardgoods and related products; one of the largest U.S. suppliers of safety products.

Through the passion and diversity of its 18,000 associates, Airgas fosters a culture of safety, customer success, sustainability and innovation. Airgas associates are empowered to share ideas, take initiative and make decisions.

Airgas is a subsidiary of Air Liquide, a world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health. Air Liquide is present in 78 countries with approximately 64,500 associates globally.

Join us for a stimulating experience: you'll find a world of learning and development opportunities where inventiveness is at the heart of what we do, in an open, collaborative and respectful environment.

Airgas offers a full benefits package includes:
http://www.airgas.com/company/careers/employee-benefits

Airgas will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the FCIHO

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We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees. 

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children,  including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates. 

Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees’ dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

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Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Information
 

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. 

Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company’s written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request.

Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at [email protected].

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