Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Sims Metal is seeking a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager to join the North Haven, CT on-site team. Reporting to the regional commercial and operations finance group, the role provides analytical insights to improve margins, inform decision-making, and drive cost efficiency across North America. The position offers a salary range of $98,000 - $125,000 per year and requires a minimum of three years of analytical experience. A degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Analyze commercial data to identify drivers of trading margins by supplier, business segment, material group, and geographic regions; identify trends and opportunities to grow and stabilize margins.
• Partner with the regional buy force team to analyze supplier profitability and maximize margin from buy force activity.
• Develop standard reports that reveal which suppliers or supplier categories contribute the most to margins.
• Present analytical insights to Commercial leadership, recommend changes, and support initiatives to expand margins on both total and per tonne bases.
• Monitor the execution of these initiatives to ensure success and continuously improve performance.
• Provide transparency to traders by monitoring key performance indicators such as volumes, new business, and segment performance to drive targeted buy performance.
• Coordinate meetings with regional commercial teams to review business performance against budgets, targets, and forecasts.
• Align analyses with wider business objectives to ensure recommendations are prioritized, analyzed, and presented appropriately.
• Coordinate with the Buy Force team to provide analytics on growth investments and track ongoing projects.
• Attend meetings as required to support the regional commercial team.
• Collate, drive, and track information related to projects, from new processes to growth initiatives.
• Support additional projects from Regional Commercial leadership to back Group Commercial initiatives.
• Assist in providing information to determine efficient and consistent payment terms for suppliers and customers.
• Monitor adherence to credit terms to maximize working capital.
• Develop methodologies for KPI calculation to monitor regional contribution to the regional trading margin.
• Collaborate with other FP&A Commercial team members to foster continuous improvement regionally and globally.
• Work with the FP&A Operations team to identify interface risks between commercial and operations and optimize the trade-off between operating costs and trading performance.
• Develop and implement methodologies to consistently calculate margin and cost of standardized products across the organization.
• Contribute to global reporting standardisation initiatives, including ERP and BI reporting.
• Undertake ad hoc activities and projects driven by the Regional CCO and Commercial Director.
• Ensure correct usage of SAP S4Hana within the regions so that accounts accurately reflect business performance, and collaborate with shared services to resolve interface issues.
• Assist with annual regional margin budget development by product type, submission, and tracking, as well as quarterly and in-month reforecasts as required.
• Contribute to the development and monitoring of margin contributions from growth projects.
• Support Operations by providing narrative and modelling for CERs with margin implications, and work with Group on Post Completion Reviews with margin implications.
• Provide decision-making support to regional commercial teams through analysis of results, segment returns, evaluation of improvement initiatives, and ad hoc analysis as needed.
• Demonstrate responsibility for compliance with SHECS policies, promote diversity and inclusion, and treat all workers fairly across inter-related teams.
• Support continuous improvement and ensure quality requirements align with the region’s functional strategy.
• Support compliance with all company policies and initiatives across regional functions.

Requirements

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline preferred.
• 3+ years of analytical experience, including contributing at a functional leadership table as a peer and leading commercial insights.
• Knowledge of administration of IT systems.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint user with strong numerical literacy and willingness to learn finance technologies such as Power BI and its relation to underlying databases.
• Understanding of scrap metal economics.
• High level of business acumen, commercial awareness and ability to apply strategic thinking when analyzing or making recommendations.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple and competing deadlines.
• Result-driven, organized and strategic mindset.
• Good interpersonal and influencing/leadership skills, including openness to others' ideas.

Technologies

• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Power BI
• SAP S4Hana

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance