Manager, Planning Reporting support, Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) — Mettawa, IL

Responsibilities

• Responsible support of planning & management reporting in SAP BPC environment including Requires strong understanding of the financial processes, headcount, revenue, and direct marketing planning as well as requirements for management P&L reporting. An understanding of price volume analysis is a plus.
• Ensure that actuals loaded into BPC at a SKU, cost center and profit center level tie to reported results monthly. Ensure that monthly financial data is loaded to BPC is complete and that all validation checks are performed.
• Provide the finance team with support for ad-hoc reports. Ensure actualized forecast tie to final monthly, quarterly reported results. Coordinate with finance communications to user base of 50+ users regarding system readiness to prepare forecast, collection of forecast templates and locking the forecasts. Finally, facilitate the submission of forecasts to corporate.
• Maintain production and development databases, including data management, hierarchy updates, data backups, and user security. Assist in testing technical patches, upgrades and system/application integrations and migrations
• Bachelor’s degree required, in Computer Science, Finance, or Accounting, MBA preferred.
• 10 years’ experience in supporting financial applications of SAP BPC preferred.
• Microsoft Excel expertise required.
• Strong Analytical and excel skills to continuously improve reporting required.
• Understanding /Acumen of finance with strong knowledge in budgeting and forecasting.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to work in highly fast paced changing environment
• Ability to collaborate with all levels to appropriately plan for growth and change
• Good problem solving skills, including innovative and creative solutions
• Ability to work independently and be goal oriented, as well as work as part of a team
• Ability to work effectively under pressure to meet deadline

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.