Senior Analyst

Lifestyle Brands (the LSB) is a growing house of like-minded brands under the SC Johnson umbrella including Method®, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day®, Babyganics® and Ecover®. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional operations in Chicago and throughout Europe, the LSB is home to 650 employees. Together we act as a force for bold, transformative growth with a focus on delivering positive impact for people and the planet. If you’re into pioneering the future and doing good while doing business, come join us.

The LSB is part of SC Johnson, a family-owned company and leading manufacturer of household cleaning, home storage, air care, pest control and shoe care products, as well as professional products. Originally founded in 1886 and headquartered in Wisconsin, U.S.A., SC Johnson and the Lifestyle Brands division are at work for a better world.

THE ROLE

The Senior Analyst, FP&A will be a critical business partner to the SG&A functional teams. This role is based in San Francisco and will work closely with the Finance team in SF, SG&A teams in SF and Racine, WI, and the centralized accounting team in Racine, WI. You’ll be a key contributor to the business in developing and distributing functional budgets, track monthly financial performance and variances to budget, identify risks and opportunities to forecasts, and administer any audit/tax requests that come our way. Furthermore, you’ll ensure our monthly results are reported accurately.

This is an onsite role in Racine, WI

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

• Own and develop functional cost center budgets and lead monthly financial review meetings with functional business partners

• Understand and track variances to budget/forecast for leadership reporting

• Distribute month-end spend reports to functional budget owners for review and commentary

• Provide financial modeling to support internal decision making around forecasts

• Create ad hoc reports as needed for tracking budgets and other business drivers

• Prepare, review, and post journal entries for general accruals in the SG&A functional areas, along with managing year-end accruals

• Record and reconcile bonus and relocation expenses related to LSB North American entities

• Handle intercompany transactions from booking to billing across entities and regions

• Coordinate with Corporate Accounting on close responsibilities and respond to enquiries from Corporate Accounting (audit or tax requests, questions on intercompany recons, etc.)

• Develop financial analysis and modeling for special projects

• Build strong relationships based on credibility and trust across multiple layers of management

• Performs other related duties as assigned

Required:

• 3+ years working in Accounting or Finance

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent experience

Preferred:

• Strong technical skills with proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work within tight timeframes and deadlines

• SAP or ERP system experience a plus

• Public accounting experience preferred

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Focus on identifying and implementing process improvement

• Sense of humor, a positive outlook with a “can-do” attitude!

Job Requirements:

• Fulltime position
• Remote work is available once a week for eligible employees
• This is not eligible for relocation

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe that being a team of diverse people with different ideas, views and cultures will help us and our business thrive. We are committed to ensuring everyone who works at the LSB feels that they have a real sense of belonging and that they can show up as who they are, be valued, listened to and supported to do their best possible work.

Sure, there’s always more that can be done. But together with our team, partners, customers and community, we can make everyone welcome.

Better Together

At SC Johnson, we strive to create a positive, inclusive and unique workplace. We strongly believe SCJ people are able to achieve their best when they can collaborate and work together in person.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The policy of the Company is to ensure equal opportunity for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, gender identity, gender expression, disability, citizenship, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in any active or reserve component of the U.S. or state military forces, genetic history or information or any other category protected by law.

Accommodation Requests

If you are an individual with a disability and you need an accommodation or other assistance during the application process, please call our Human Resources department at 262-260-3343 or email your request to SCJHR@scj.com. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. Download the EEO is the Law poster for more information.