Description
Nature's Sunshine is looking for a strategic driver to lead all financial planning and analysis activities for the global enterprise. In this role, you will lead, coach, and develop a team of ten professionals and be responsible for developing, guiding, and implementing the company's long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes. You will be expected to partner with executives and business leaders to provide insightful analysis and recommendations to enhance the business and improve profitability. Successfully performing this role will require strong analytical skills, excellent oral and written communication skills, strong business acumen, a knack for using data and analytics to explain complex issues in simple terms, and the ability to think independently. This role will frequently interact with the CEO, CFO, and senior management and will be responsible for developing presentations and analyses for the Board of Directors.
Responsibilities:
Working in tandem with all functions and geographies of the business, the successful candidate will be responsible for (1) owning the consolidation of reporting, forecasting, and budgeting for the entire global business (2) preparing revenue, gross margin, and cost variance analysis, competitive analysis, etc. (3) preparing presentations for the Board of Directors and assisting with the development of the earnings call, SEC reporting, monthly/quarterly business reviews, and scorecard and KPI tracking and analysis (4) providing key insights, analysis, and recommendations to the CEO, CFO, CAO, and top management (5) managing the business intelligence team, providing direction, governance, and clarity around business reporting and analytics.
- Manages the company's strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting tools and capabilities, ensuring transparency and alignment around results, risks, and opportunities.
- Provides insightful and actionable reporting, recommendations, and action plans for driving sales and profitability.
- Monitors performance against business plans to achieve overall financial and growth objectives.
- Anticipates and identifies business opportunities and challenges and comes up with actionable insights.
- Contributes to the overall business strategy by developing powerful financial models that enhance the company's finance lens.
- Evaluate total company performance and provide insight into the financial situation's impact on future performance.
- Improves financial processes and capabilities to enable sound business and financial decisions and ensures that financial goals and growth objectives are met or exceeded.
- Supports global sales and cost initiatives through analysis and an in-depth monthly performance review to identify opportunities to improve financial performance.
- Builds insightful and timely reporting regarding business results, key initiatives, and KPIs.
- Performs special projects, supports new product introductions, and other related duties as assigned.
- Acts as a critical resource for the CEO, CFO, and CAO in driving business results, ownership, and accountability.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting or similar business discipline with a minimum of 10+ years related experience.
- MBA or CFA preferred.
- At least five years of experience in an FP&A management role.
- Familiarity with IT systems and business intelligence.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally, supporting business partners, and influencing others.
- Self-motivated with a strong work ethic.
- Ability to utilize financial data to diagnose business strengths and weaknesses and identify the implications for potential strategies.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Very strong analytical skills.
- High degree of organizational skills.
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills are required.
- Experience with Power BI, data visualization, DCF modeling, statistical analysis, break-even analysis, etc. desired.
- This position will be located in Lehi, UT, with the expectation of being in the office at least four days/week.