Senior Financial Analyst - Ashland, LLC

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Ashland Inc. business at our Bridgewater, NJ or Wilmington, DE location. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Finance function. This position will report to the Business Unit CFO.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Reporting monthly & quarterly performance, forecasting, and annual budgeting.
• Leading economic evaluations of significant research and capital projects.  Provide decision support for the Personal Care Americas and Global Extraction & Bioconversion businesses. 
• Analyzing variances and providing management commentary, including bridges to explain volume, price, cost, and exchange rate-driven variances.
• Preparing management presentations and leading monthly results calls with senior management. 
• Controlling SG&A spend; providing relevant analysis and spend bridges to leadership
• Proactively contributing recommendations to the management team to improve business performance
• Participating in special projects.  Ad hoc reporting and analysis supporting many internal customers as required.
• Travel less than 20%

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• B.S. in Accounting, Finance or related degree.
• 4-6 years of experience in Accounting or Finance with at least 1-2 years in FP&A
• Strong analytical skills, financial planning and analysis background
• High proficiency in MS Excel is required along with a basic knowledge of SAP, Business Warehouse, and Qliktech (or similar ERP, analytical and query applications)
• Must demonstrate flexibility, adaptability and the ability to work under tight deadlines
• Must be customer focused and have effective communications skills
• Strive for continuous improvement and be highly self-directed

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:

• Experience in manufacturing or cost accounting, highly preferred                                                                               
• CPA/CMA/MBA a plus

Third party recruiters and agencies (“Agency”) should not contact employees of Ashland or its subsidiaries directly. Any resumes sent by an Agency to a hiring manager, recruiter or submitted to Ashland’s career portal are considered unsolicited and property of Ashland. Ashland will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume, unless the Agency has a signed contract with Ashland’s Human Resources/Procurement department in advance of submitting a candidate for consideration. Verbal and written approvals will not be considered a valid contract for service.

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.
 
At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.
 
Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.
 
Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE:  We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.