Finance Manager

Role Overview

We are excited to invite applications for a Budget and Planning Manager within Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Colgate-Palmolive. This position plays a critical role in providing financial leadership, budgeting, and planning support to Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, which is responsible for our North American professional oral care business. The ideal candidate is highly self-motivated and can work well both independently and within a team. They are a self-starter that is eager to work on and learn various aspects of Finance, including business partnering, financial closing, and budget and planning.

What You Will Do

Business Partnering

• Partner with marketing and leadership to manage financial planning and provide strategic financial guidance.

• Oversee A&P spend management and financial planning alignment across key stakeholders.

• Provide financial leadership around the validation of system enhancements and new system implementations.

• Partner with Accounts Payable team.

Financial Closing

• Track actual spending and perform accrual calculations for Advertising & Promotions (A&P).

• Perform NVO and cash flow analysis during financial closing.

• Perform regular tasks such as Quarterly Revenue Recognition, monthly closing decks, and balance sheet reconciliations.

Budget and Planning

• Build Monthly Rolling Estimate (MRE), Latest Estimate (LE), and Budget models using proprietary planning tools.

• Partner with the Commercial Team in planning Advertising and Promotions (A&P) across U.S. and Canada Professional Channels.

• Manage cash flow modeling and forecasting for LE and Budget processes.

• Prepare exhibits for business reviews.

Additional Tasks

• Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Testing.

• Maintain and coordinate Cost Center hierarchies and master data.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or a related field of study.

• At least 3+ years of prior finance and/or accounting work experience.

• Demonstrated understanding and actual application of internal control structures, systems and processes.

• Advanced to expert-level experience with Microsoft Excel and experience with Google Suite, particularly Sheets, Slides and Docs.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

• Strong communication skills including interpersonal, oral, written and presentation abilities.

• Collaborative and strong desire to work on a team.

• Proven ability to work independently and ensure task completion.

• There is a requirement to "roll your sleeves up" and accept that, alongside the strategic work, there are day-to-day tasks to be completed.

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience working with SAP financial systems.

• Strong understanding of SAP O2I, C2C and P2P work stream.

• SAP and Business Warehouse skills.

• CPA (Certified Public Accountant), MBA (Masters of Business Administration), CMA (Certified Management Accountant).