FP&A Manager

Sims Metal (Sims) is a global leader in metal recycling. With facilities across the globe, Sims plays an intrinsic role in the circular economy by making resources available for future use. As a responsible corporate citizen, we continuously seek new ways to broaden our participation in the environmental sector, ensuring that our future is as bright, safe, and secure as at any time in our long history.

With a promote-from-within philosophy and a variety of programs available to support continuous learning, Sims offers the opportunity for a rewarding career. We are committed to the ecologically sound and sustainable use of resources and strive to operate in a manner that minimizes waste and protects the environment.

 Purpose of the Role: 

Support regional commercial or operations finance team for the Metal business by providing analytical support and actionable insights across the regional commercial and/or operational teams. Through improving the quality and communication of data, the role will contribute to more timely and accurate decision making within regional finance, commercial, and operational functions, while sharing best practices with peers throughout the North America Metals business. The role will contribute to transparency and delivery of increased and more stable trading margin across the region for all commodity products as well as lowering operational costs

Principal Accountabilities: 

• Margin Analysis
  • Analyse commercial data to discover insights related to key drivers of trading margins by supplier, business segment, material group and geographic regions to identify trends and opportunities for margin growth and stability
  • Work with the regional buy force team to analyse and enhance understanding of regional supplier profitability to ensure maximum margin is obtained from the buy force activity
  • Develop standard reports to provide the buy force team with relevant insights as to which suppliers or category of suppliers provide the highest margin contribution
  • Communicate analytical insights to Commercial leadership, make recommendations for changes and assist with the development of initiatives to expand margins in both total and per tonne terms
  • Monitor the implementation of these initiatives to ensure success of the recommendations and continuously improve the initiatives of performance terms

• Commercial Team
  • Assist in providing transparency to traders through monitoring key performance indicators (e.g. volumes, new business, segment performance) to help drive individual and targeted buy performance
  • Assist in coordination of meetings with regional commercial teams to allow review of business performance against budgets, targets and forecasts
  • Understand wider business objectives and direction to ensure that any recommendations or areas of interest are suitably prioritised, analysed and presented
  • Coordinate with Buy Force team to help provide analytics in where to invest and improve growth as well as tracking any projects in place
  • Attend meetings as required to support the regional commercial team
  • Collate, drive and track information in relation to projects, from new processes to growth projects
  • Other projects as required from Regional commercial leadership
  • Support Group commercial projects and initiatives
  • Assist in providing information to determine efficient and consistent payment terms for suppliers and customers
  • Monitor adherence to credit terms to maximise working capital

• Standardisation, Sharing of Best Practices & Continuous Improvement
  • Assist in the development of appropriate methodologies of key performance indicators to monitor and calculate regional contribution to the regional trading margin
  • Collaborate with other regional FP&A Commercial team members to embrace a philosophy of continuous improvement regionally and globally
  • Work collaboratively with the FP&A Operations team to identify and manage the interface risks between commercial and operations to ensure that Sims optimise the trade-off between operating costs and trading
  • Assist in the development and implementation of appropriate methodologies to consistently calculate margin and cost of standardised products across the organisation
  • Contribute to global reporting standardisation initiatives, including ERP and BI reporting
• Project Management & Business Improvement:
  • Undertake ad hoc activities and projects driven by the Regional CCO and Commercial Director
  • Work with the business to ensure that the new SAP S4Hana system is being used correctly within the regions to ensure that they produce accounts that accurately reflect the performance of the business
  • Work with shared services team to ensure that any interface issues with the commercial side of the business are addressed
• Budgeting, Forecasting & Capital Management
  • Assist with annual regional margin budget development by product type, submission, and tracking as well as quarterly, in-month and other reforecasts as required
  • Contribute to the development and monitoring of margin contributions from growth projects
  • Work with Operations providing narrative and modelling for CERs with margin implications
  • Work with Group to assist in providing feedback and modelling of Post Completion Reviews with margin implications
• Cultural Support
  • Provide decision-making support to regional commercial teams through analysis of results, returns on business segments, evaluation of proposed improvement initiatives and ad hoc analysis as needed
  • Demonstrate personal responsibility for, and ensure compliance with, all Safety, Health, Environment, Community, and Sustainability (SHECS) policies, procedures, and initiatives within multiple inter-related teams or regional function with a single team
  • Promote diversity and inclusion, positive employee relations, and teamwork, and ensure all workers within multiple inter-related teams or regional function with a single team are treated fairly and equitably
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives and foster compliance with quality requirements in accordance with region’s functional strategy
  • Support and ensure compliance with all Company policies, procedures, and initiatives within multiple inter-related teams or regional function with a single team

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): 

• Quantifiable impact on business performance via adding value and insight into business decision making, in particular, in relation to commercial trading margin expansion and volume growth 
• Articulate comparison of actual performance relative to target expectations
• Accurate and transparent communication of components of trading margin
• Service level satisfaction across commercial function and broader organisation
• Ensuring that standard daily, weekly and monthly reporting requirements are in place to assist in determining that the commercial sales and scrap purchasing requirements of the business are met

Formal Education & Knowledge:

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline preferred
• 3+ years of analytical experience, including sitting and contributing at a functional leadership table as a peer, and leading and developing commercial/business insight
• Knowledge/familiarity with the administration of IT systems
• The candidate will be expected to take the initiative and lead your own work programmes. 
• Applicants must be an advanced Excel and PowerPoint user, with strong numeric and literacy skills and willing to learn emerging finance technologies such as power BI and interrelation with underlying databases

Skills:

• Strong influencing skills to implement solutions without direct line authority
• Understanding of scrap metal economics
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to identify actionable insights
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong problem solving and analytical abilities with a quantitative aptitude; intellectual curiosity with the ability to exercise mature judgment
• Pull together detailed and complicated financial information and present the salient points for decision making
• High level of business acumen, commercial awareness and ability to apply strategic thinking skills when analysing or making recommendations
• The ability to develop a confidant relationship with key members of the regional commercial team
• Strong presentation skills
• The ability to juggle multiple and competing deadlines
• Result-driven, organised and strategic mindset
• Good Project management skills
• Good interpersonal and influencing / leadership skills, including the ability to accept and embrace others’ ideas

Core Competencies:

• Safety and ESG

Instil commitment to safety culture, resolve complex problems in line with SHECS and ESG standards 

• Accept & Expect Accountability 

Set and achieve challenging targets, set quality and accuracy standards relevant to region, regional function or global sub-function and monitor to ensure acceptable standard of quality 

• Inspire with Passion 

Communicate well verbally and in writing with different stakeholders with divergent interests, delivers presentations, manage meetings with clear outcomes, share information and ideas with others, listen attentively and actively to others, solicit performance feedback and handle constructive criticism, conduct positive negotiations with an ability to compromise, handle conflict and seek common ground, develop strong relationships and allies across organization to build consensus and drive results, understand others' roles and perspectives 

• Band Together 

Prioritize tasks to meet competing deadlines, overcome obstacles, motivate and encourage others, instil culture of mutual respect and inclusion, handle difficult people, apply clear and consistent performance standards, provide leadership, motivation and mentoring, identify and develop talent, plan for succession, influence behaviour change in people 

• Consistently Innovate 

Resolve complex issues with minimal guidelines and acceptable level of risk, use consensus when possible, communicate decisions to others, systematically gather information and seek input from others to identify root cause of issues, handle pressure, adjust plans to meet changing needs, generate new ideas, create and respond to opportunities, drive continuous improvement programs 

• Planning & Project Management 

Create and communicate medium to long-term vision, balance and align short, medium and long-term goals and projects, accountable for completion of own and region’s tasks and goals, create and adjust strategic plans to meet regional requirements, manage resources efficiently looking for ways to reduce costs, approve and track budget, understand global markets and international considerations and effective working with global partners 

• Business & Job Knowledge 

Use strategic insight to define own and region’s duties and responsibilities, understand and/or sell full product/service line, use market knowledge when responding to customer's needs, interpret and instil culture of compliance with policies and procedures applicable to self and region 

A career with Sims provides you with the opportunity to work with an organization whose goal is to be the world’s safest and most responsible recycling company. Our people achieve this by creating a zero-harm workplace, being exemplary members of the communities in which we operate, and being responsible stewards of the environment. We also offer competitive pay and a range of attractive benefits.

At Sims together we are a diverse group of employees who are supported by our equal opportunity policy. To achieve our purpose to create a world without waste to preserve our planet, we are guided by our Principles of Purpose: Be Safe + Well, Band Together, Be Accountable + Transparent, Consistently Innovate, Inspire with Purpose, Celebrate + Have Fun.