Director of Financial Planning & Analysis

Working at Watlow
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a great living and be part of a thriving cross functional community? Watlow is a global technology and manufacturing leader who provides world class engineering expertise through innovative thermal products and systems, enabling our customers to thrive. We are making a positive impact every day as our solutions enrich the lives of people everywhere. We have been providing breakthrough thermal solutions for nearly a century. Our corporate values guide us uncompromisingly to always do the right thing, continually learn and improve, respect everyone and lead with service and humility.

About the Role
As a Director of Financial Planning and Analysis for the Thermal Solutions Business Unit you will be instrumental in our growth plans to establish and build a strong Financial Planning and Analysis and business partner infrastructure. The position is key in building a high performing team that influences and enables profitable, controlled, and sustainable growth at Watlow, while demonstrating uncompromising integrity, respect, commitment to teamwork, and relentless drive to add value. You will be located at our global headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri and report to the Vice President of Finance.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Business partner to GM/VP of business unit and operations to drive value creation
• Analyze the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow and report the results through management discussion and analysis documentation, and monthly meetings
• Responsible for forecasting and annual budgets within the business unit
• Create, update, enhance, and maintain KPI’s and business metrics
• Identify problems and action improvement initiatives from start to completion
• Work with operating sites to find cost savings, efficiency improvements, and implement growth opportunities
• Build, analyze, and assess customer and product level profitability analysis to highlight and action margin improvement and growth strategies
• Prepare Board of Directors, bank, and company communication presentations
• Prepare capital and investment decision analysis to evaluate the ROI and payback
• Involvement in merger and acquisition valuation, diligence, and integration
• Prepare and drive process improvement and efficiency initiatives in finance, including developing more effective ways to evaluate the business and results.
• Establish data mining and automation techniques and systems that enables more efficient analysis.
• Financial modeling of scenarios to make data driven decisions
• Involvement with the ERP system implementation analysis team

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with relevant degree program and 10+ years of experience in a financial planning and analysis role
• Experience in Environmental/Energy industry
• Expertise in Excel, Power BI or Tableau

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s degree in finance preferred.
• Project Management and People Management experience, comfortable with change and driving change
• Experience and desire to create, build, and grow an organization
• Positive, hardworking, analytical, strategic thinker, and business partner
• Ability to manage competing priorities and manage up, down, and across for greater focus and results
• Desire to have a balance of doing and leading, while getting into the details
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced organization

Benefits: The Watlow Total Compensation Plan
The health, well-being and financial stability of you and your family is a high priority to us. The Watlow Total Rewards Plan includes competitive compensation and a full range of life and career enhancing benefits:

• Annual Achievement Award
• 401(k) plan that includes a company match on your contribution and an annual company contribution that is tied to company performance
• Onsite wellness clinic
• Wellness incentives
• Employee Personal Assistance Program
• Dental, medical, vision and short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Paid holidays, personal time, and vacation
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement

Diversity & Inclusion
We proactively embrace diversity in all its dimensions across our company and cultivate a culture of inclusion and forward thinking that respects and reflects each team member’s individual strengths, views, and experiences. Watlow takes pride in being an inclusive equal opportunity employer and considers for employment qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Please let us know confidentially if you need or require any special accommodations to participate in our recruiting process by emailing us at accommodations@Watlow.com.