Director, Revenue & Margin Planning, Industrial

The Enterprise Financial, Planning & Analysis team provides centralized planning, forecasting and guidance for Sherwin-Williams' global businesses. This includes partnering with the Company's business units to develop an accurate view and expectation of business drivers enabling business strategy and action.

The Director of Enterprise Revenue and Margin Planning will guide the strategic and tactical direction for sales and margin planning and forecasting, supporting the global industrial business units. The incumbent will identify ongoing continuous improvement opportunities across the financial forecasting and planning process, and will manage a team that supports the creation, implementation, and ongoing management of the daily sales reporting, forecast, and planning processes. The incumbent will report to the Sr. Director of Operations Planning & Forecasting for the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) organization, and will escalate trends across the industrial business units, to support the monthly and quarterly assessment of business performance in driving strategic business analysis.

Because this role involves access to confidential financial information, the Company has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and to provide similar protections for its clients and potential investments."

Additional responsibilities and tasks:

• Manage overall strategic sales planning for the industrial business units
• Identify complex business performance issues and present insights on the consolidated internal reports and external presentations
• Advise on risk and opportunity considerations for managing cost and growing revenue and profitability
• Identify business performance issues and recommend and execute action plans
• Identify and assess cause and effect patterns in the business not collected in existing reporting
• Provide decision support and guidance
• Provide direction and support to NOAM and EMEAI FP&A team members
• Ensuring adherence to financial regulations and compliance (e.g. US GAAP and Sarbanes Oxley)
• Leading a team of three direct reports with a focus on talent development; set standards of performance, coach, train, and develop employees through regular, clear, and consistent communication of goals and deliverables

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong work ethic, ability to work well under pressure, and the skills to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced work environment. Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to adjust and reprioritize as needed, while maintaining a strict adherence to deadlines is critical. Attention to detail, as well as a desire and ability to problem solve through complex financial situations is a must.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

FORMAL EDUCATION:

Required:

• Bachelors degree in Finance or Accounting

Preferred:

• Masters degree in Business, Finance or Accounting
• CPA/CMA

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• 10+ years of professional work experience in finance, accounting, planning, and forecasting
• 7+ years with people management experience
• Experience communicating effectively with customers and ability to think through customer's needs in advance
• Ability to use organizational and industry knowledge to develop solutions to enhance the strategic planning process through thoughtful analysis of market and competitive landscape trends across the industrial business units
• Ability to apply deep understanding of the planning and forecasting process to identify opportunities to process optimize and improve
• Ability to build strong business partnerships, and collaborate across multiple business units and stakeholders
• Ability to strategically influence stakeholders in the adoption and use of optimized planning and forecasting processes

Preferred:

• Experience as a manager of managers

TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Required:

• Demonstrated experience in project management and root-cause analysis
• Demonstrated knowledge of digital solutions to enable execution of forecasting abilities
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

Preferred:

• Strong working knowledge of OneStream, SW chart of accounts, and/or Oracle Cloud preferred

Travel: 10%