Finance Leadership Program 2024 - Finance Analyst (Atlanta, GA)

Finance Analyst, Financial Leadership Program 2024 – Atlanta, GA

Career Opportunity:

The Financial Leadership Program (FLP) is designed to develop future WestRock finance leaders. As a Finance Analyst, you will be a part of a full-time intensive program for two years, with four 6-month assignments of which one potentially being an offsite field location. Following successful completion of the program, you will be placed into a permanent department based on performance, career interest, and business needs. Departments include Corporate Finance and Business Unit Finance. Program benefits include a Program Sponsor, Program Mentor, senior leadership exposure, training, travel, and other events (team building, leadership, professional development and volunteer).

· Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/economics /business/math

· Minimum of a 3.5 GPA is preferred

· Strong capabilities with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and financial modeling capabilities

· Ability to quickly adapt to a change in work environment, multi-task and prioritize multiple projects

· Strong analytic/problem-solving skills, attention to accuracy, passion for improvement, and desire to work in a team/collaborative environment

· Demonstrated leadership capabilities and potential along with interest in social/ team building events

· Solid written and verbal communication skills and the ability to make concise recommendations and ability to interact credibly and diplomatically with all levels within the company

· Partner with finance team members to prepare quarterly Board slides and memo; present materials to leadership as appropriate Support the annual budgeting process, provide tracking and insight for projects to aid decisions in operations, maintenance and future spending

· Work with the pricing and commercial finance teams to quantify and provide analysis on impact of pricing changes and price realization assumptions across the company

· Perform financial modeling and return analysis for strategic projects

· Analyze results at the mill, plant, customer, product and region levels and provide insight on variances to budgets and forecast

· Perform month end closing and financial reporting activities, participate in physical inventories, review usage trends and participate in income statement and balance sheet reviews to ensure accuracy

· Create discounted cash flow analyses for investment decisions in capital expenditures and other strategic investments

· Optimize and rationalize reporting and enhance reporting databases to drive consistency in financial practices across the organization

· Perform ad-hoc analyses and work with division/segment finance teams to design/produce value-added analysis and reporting for leadership and senior management

· Create monthly and quarterly EBITDA bridges to quantify and explain business results; partner cross functionally to improve bridge methodology as needed

· Lead projects and support key initiatives as assigned If this sounds great to you and you think you fit in, please submit your application. We want to hear from you!