Mgr, Financial Reporting

The Pittsburgh Paints Co

Cranberry Township, PA

JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Part-time
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Business Administration, Business Intelligence, Cadence, Channel Strategies, Communication Skills, Competitive Analysis/Strategy, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional, Data Management, Data Science, Data Sets, Economics, Finance, Financial Reporting, Leadership, Mentoring, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Power BI, Pricing, Product Pricing, Python Programming/Scripting Language, R Programming Language, Reporting Dashboards, SQL (Structured Query Language), Sales, Strategic Analysis, Strategic Planning, Systems Maintenance, Tableau, Team Lead/Manager, Time Management
LOCATION
Cranberry Township, PA
POSTED
1 day ago

 The Manager, Pricing Insights & Analytics is a key financial role for the US Commercial team partnering with our US Commercial leaders and finance team. The role will be a strategic partner in the pricing team responsible for developing and managing strategic pricing analytics to support and inform business decisions and new business opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

 

  • Lead and mentor team of analysts to identify insights, drive pricing opportunities, and spearhead the creation of enterprise level pricing & margin analytics
  • Lead the development and maintenance of systems to process, track and monitor deviation of effective pricing vs targeted pricing
  • Lead the effort to design, create and continuously improve systems & tools required to perform required analytical functions
  • Partners with business leaders and sales organization on systems, tools, dashboards, reports and processes to enable more informed strategic decision making
  • Establish regular reporting cadence for pricing team and enterprise leadership that deliver timely and accurate pricing & margin insights
  • Provide ad hoc pricing and margin analysis support to broader enterprise as requested by leadership (e.g. Commercial Strategy, Pricing, Sales, etc.)
  • Oversee the development of pricing and rebate analysis/reporting for leadership reviews
  • Maintain data, systems and process standards for quality audits
  • Develop approach to manage competitive intelligence across all markets and leverage that data to inform strategic decision making across the enterprise
  • Help drive effective, efficient, whole-systems dialogue and decision-making through coordination and collaboration

 Requirements:

 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Economics/Finance/Business or a related field, MBA preferred
  • Minimum five years of experience working in an analytics intensive role (e.g. Advanced Analytics, Data Science, Pricing, etc.)
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in Pricing Strategy and/or data-driven decision making

   

Functional and Technical Skills:

 

  • BI Solutions (PowerBI/Tableau), Excel, Visual Basic (VBA), large data management, SQL, R/Python
  • Strategic thinker with demonstrated ability to generate insights from large and complex data sets
  • Ability to effectively communicate complex analytics in an intuitive way to senior leaders across the enterprise and influence decision making
  • Strong team builder and cross functional boundary spanner; ability to influence, challenge, and drive consensus across the organization and at multiple levels
  • Supervision/Coordination Reports directly to the Director of Pricing and will have analysts as direct reports
  • Works closely with senior leaders, project teams, and other workgroup leaders and staff members
  • Influence of employees who do not report to this individual is critical

     

    About the Company

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    The Pittsburgh Paints Co