Senior Financial Analyst - Distribution

CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies (NASDAQ:COO), is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses.

The Company produces a full array of daily disposable, two-week and monthly contact lenses, all featuring advanced materials and optics.

CooperVision has a strong heritage of solving the toughest vision challenges such as astigmatism, presbyopia and childhood myopia; and offers the most complete collection of spherical, toric and multifocal products available.

Through a combination of innovative products and focused practitioner support, the company brings a refreshing perspective to the marketplace, creating real advantages for customers and wearers.

For more information, visit www.coopervision.com.

Job Summary:

This position will play a key, hands-on role in managing the West Henrietta Distribution Center (WHDC) financial analytics and forecasting of financial and operational performance.

Responsible for the preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, supporting the Long-Range Strategic Planning process, analyzing actual results, Other COGS estimating and analysis, and providing strategic advice, counsel, and business partnership towards management decision-making.

Active engagement with the broader Americas Go to Market Finance Team required to ensure regional consistency and alignment on key projects and initiatives.  This person will own the WH Cost to Serve modeling activities and work with multiple cross functional teams across the company to report and analyze distribution operations and inventory management.

This role requires sharp finance skills and business sense.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities:


* Manage and direct the annual budget process and quarterly forecast preparation, in accordance with CooperVision timelines.

Contributor to the annual Long Range Strategic Planning process.


* Ownership of reports and analysis of financial and operational results, including development and reporting of key performance indicators, to support the timely and accurate monthly close process. 


* Complete monthly reporting packages with analytical commentary for Global Distribution and Americas leadership.


* Lead special projects that support management decision-making, such as productivity analysis, value added services, cost containment, capital expenditure return on investment, freight analysis, etc.


* As a key member of the broader Go to Market Americas Finance team, this role develops relationships across functions to ensure consistency in data and metrics used by Americas leadership for decision making.


* Generate sensitivity analysis and scenario generator tools to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.


* Approach all tasks with a process improvement mindset.

Find the efficiencies and implement improvements, whether procedural or systematic, ensuring compliance with Internal Controls.

Travel Requirements:

This role is based in the ...