FP&A Manager - North America, Latex Binders and Compounding

Trinseo is a different kind of global materials company - at the intersection of people, technology, and customers. We are a world leader in the production of plastics and latex binders. Our culture is built on passion and innovation.

A career at Trinseo presents a unique opportunity to work in a highly collaborative environment. Helping customers solve their most complex material challenges is the reason we come to work each day. We are seeking innovative thinkers - ready to tackle any challenge and passionate about delivering value.

As a global materials solutions provider focused on delivering innovative and sustainable solutions to our customers, we need people to feel respected and included so they can be more creative, innovative, and successful. We strive to create workplaces that reflect all communities and customers we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work. That's why we're fully committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience to drive us forward every day.

Overview (Scope of Role)

Under the direction of the Global Finance Leader, Latex Binders, the FP&A Manager will play a critical role in ensuring the financial planning aligns with and supports the North American region's business objectives by providing actionable insights that drive rigorous and informed decision-making across the business unit with a focus on accountability, quality, timely results, and risk management.

The position will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, providing valuable recommendations to optimize profitability through productivity and sustainable growth initiatives. This position combines rigorous financial planning with hands-on business partnering and a collaborative mindset throughout the North American region to deliver successful business performance outcomes with speed, accuracy, innovation, and proactive problem solving.

Develop and manage the NAM region's end-to-end financial planning process, including annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and analytics in support of the sales & operations planning cycle. Align the financial plans with the overall strategic initiatives and provide actionable insights.
• Extensively partner with the NAM business and functional teams to understand internal and external factors impacting sales and profitability, formulate action plans that address gaps and track its achievement, and implement opportunities to grow business performance, while ensuring forecast assumptions are timely populated with completeness and accuracy.
• Drive the completion of actual and forecast income statements and working capital for the region, ensuring data integrity and seamless loading and integration into the reporting system.
• Drive the region's monthly business reviews with the NAM business management teams, delivering insightful explanations for major variances between actual results, budget, and forecast, facilitating better decision-making processes and corrective action plans.
• Synthesize the region's actual monthly results across various dimensions such as volume, pricing, cost, variable margin, and fixed cost in comprehensive reports, and developing recommendations for improving the business performance.
• Support the preparation and monitoring of business excellence and synergy initiatives, encompassing areas such a new business development, new product innovation, commercial excellence, and business KPI dashboards.
• Drive continuous improvement in forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and analytical capabilities in concert with the data input and analysis.
• Support ad hoc project financial analysis and valuation to support the region's strategic business initiatives and business development opportunities, providing valuable insights for decision making processes.
• Ensure the integrity of historical financials and related profitability analysis for the NAM region and customers, acting as both a steward and creator of value through business and finance strategies.
• Acting as both a steward of value and a creator of value by aligning the region's business and finance strategy and managing financial performance through management reporting and business analytics.

Essential Functions and Time Allocation:

• Monthly/Quarterly Performance Analysis and Reporting: 50%
• Strategic Project Value Creation / Capture: 15%
• Functional management / Business Excellence: 15%
• Annual Budget and Long-Term Planning process: 10%
• Business FP&A processes improvement: 10%

• Bachelor's in Business Management / Finance / Accounting (Masters/MBA/CPA/CFA preferred)
• +7 years of progressive experience in financial and business analysis and planning, as well as cost accounting. Strong proficiency in financial systems and tools (Data Warehouse, SAP, BI tools, advanced Excel)
• Chemical industry experience preferred
• Attention to detail while understanding the big picture, financial accounting, business acumen, ownership and accountability, people leadership & building relationships, international management, economic evaluation, mergers & acquisitions.
• Strong analytical ability
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; expertise in Excel and PowerPoint;
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to recognize issues and proactively address them

Equity and Inclusion

With our expanding global presence, cross-cultural insight and competence are essential for our ongoing success. We believe that a diverse workforce contributes different perspectives, experiences and creative ideas that enable us to continue to improve every day. Race, gender, ethnicity, country of origin, age, personal style, sexual orientation, physical ability, religion, work and life experiences and many more factors contribute to this diversity. We welcome all applicants, regardless of their backgrounds, and are committed to a fair and inclusive hiring process.

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