Financial Planning and Analysis Manager Job in Danbury 06810, Connecticut Us
Honeywell International is a $36 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials. Based in Morris Township, N.J., Honeywell’s shares are traded on the New York, London and Chicago Stock Exchanges. For additional information, please visit www.honeywell.com .
The company is committed to providing quality products, integrated system solutions and services to customers around the world. Honeywell products touch the lives of most people everyday, whether you’re flying on a plane, driving a car, heating or cooling a home, furnishing an apartment, taking medication for an illness or playing a sport.
Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
FRAM Group, formerly known as Honeywell CPG, a New Zealand-based private company that invests across a variety of industries and aims to build and grow leading global businesses, including Reynolds Group Holdings, one of the largest packaging companies in the world. FRAM Group is headquartered in Danbury, Conn. Leading automotive care products include FRAM® oil, air, transmission and fuel filters; Autolite® spark plugs and ignition wire sets are sold by FRAM Group Operations LLC. Prestone Products Corporation's Prestone® antifreeze/coolant and car care products and Holts® car care are also part of the FRAM Group family of products. It maintains RD capabilities in the United States and Europe and has a manufacturing footprint in 10 countries worldwide.
Please note that the Consumer Products Group is no longer a division of Honeywell; as it was acquired by Rank Group in July 2011.
This position is responsible for all aspects of financial planning and forecasting, cost tracking and accounting for expense and capital budgets, and internal cost charging related to the Global I/T Operations for the UCI / FRAM Group. The successful candidate will work closely with the CIO and I/T Managers, Business Unit Controllers and CFO's, and group Shared Services Finance Teams to ensure mutual understanding of global and allocated I/T costs, forecasts, variances, etc. The successful candidate will provide strong leadership in analyzing I/T costs, streamlining workload associated with global I/T cost management, identification of trends and opportunities for improvement and cost reduction. In addition to financial responsibilities, the successful candidate will also assist with I/T vendor management and IT SOX compliance efforts.
This position functionally reports to the Chief Information Officer while also reporting into the CFO's Group Finance Team.
Responsibilities include:
- Proven accounting and finance expertise.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Ability to dive deep into detailed data and analysis, but also effectively summarize for senior executives via excellent presentation and communication skills.
- Experience with international locations, multicurrency, international accounting standards.
- Strong cash flow forecasting and tracking skills.
- Strong ability to lead annual budget planning processes, forecast and manage actuals.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships across a globally diverse internal customer base.
- Vendor and contract management experience.
- Ability to proactively identify opportunities for process improvement, redesign processes, communicate and gain buy in of internal stakeholders, and lead implementation of change.
- Ability to analyze large volumes of data and proactively identify meaningful trends and through leadership drive toward the required actual results.
- Strong problem solving skills.
- Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, follow-through, written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong cost benefit analysis and business case development capabilities.
- Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP.
- Thorough knowledge of internal controls, including IT general controls.
- Ability to work on multiple concurrent assignments.
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced business environment.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in finance or accounting degree.
- 5 years financial planning experience
Additional Qualifications:
- CPA or CMA is a plus.
- Experience using ERP Financials and HFM.
- Division and Corporate or I/S Finance leadership experience.
- Experience dealing with international legal requirements of transfer-pricing to enable internal charges to be allocated to locations outside the US.
- Project Management expertise.
- Experience partnering with management and staff in a team based environment
- Work independently and in cooperation with others on multiple activities, with flexibility to manage competing demands and changing priorities
- Track record of ability to handle duties of a confidential nature with judgment and discretion
- Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
- Excellent computer skills
- Must be energetic, polished, customer-service oriented and adaptable to ongoing change
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to a diverse workforce.
Additional Information:
- Travel Percentage: 25%
