Commercial Finance Analyst
Key Skills
Job Description
The Commercial Finance Analyst plays a critical role in driving financial predictability, accountability, and strategic insights. This high-visibility position supports core financial processes including annual operating plans, quarterly forecasts, and monthly reporting while partnering closely with regional sales leaders and functional teams to optimize performance and enable growth.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities Business Partnering:
- Collaborate with regional sales leaders to enhance forecast accuracy, identify growth opportunities, and improve financial predictability.
- Forecasting: Support quarterly forecast cycles, ensuring accuracy and identifying risks and opportunities to improve predictability.
- Performance Analysis: Track and analyze results against plan, forecast, and prior year; identify root causes for variances and recommend corrective actions.
- Annual Operating Plan Development: Lead end-to-end planning processes, including timeline management, review coordination, document preparation, and financial consolidation.
- Sales & Margin Analysis: Consolidate and interpret data related to sales performance, margin trends, structural costs, pricing, and working capital optimization.
- Analytical Tools Development: Create tools and dashboards to evaluate performance across sales channels, product lines, vertical markets, and geographic regions.
- Process Improvement: Identify and implement process enhancements using Lean methodologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness of financial operations.
- Growth Initiatives: Provide financial support for strategic projects and initiatives.
Market & Industry Analysis: Monitor orders, backlog, and industry trends to inform business decisions and improve forecasting accuracy. - Other Duties: Perform additional responsibilities as assigned to support FP&A and business objectives.
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Minimum 3+ years in Financial Planning, Operational Finance, or Corporate Finance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on fact-based decision-making.
- Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and financial systems (SAP, OneStream XF or similar tools such as HFM, Essbase).
- Ability to communicate effectively across all organizational levels and build strong relationships.
- Good knowledge of Dutch and English, both verbal and written.
- High level of integrity, confidentiality, and accountability.
- Organized, adaptable, and able to meet deadlines under pressure.
- Demonstrated ability to influence in ambiguous situations and drive results.
- Knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS
- Formal presentation skills and ability to clearly express ideas in writing and verbally.
- Strong interest and aptitude for complex analytical work and creative thinking.
At Chemelex:
We protect places of progress through electric excellence.
Pioneering plants, sprawling data centers, busy transport hubs, and your own home. These are the places that bring progress to the world, and the places that we protect with time-tested technologies, advanced engineering, and a suite of services. Because here, excellence is everything.
Our Dimensions of Excellence reflect the core values of Chemelex. Together, they inspire our decisions and guide our actions – defining excellence in our work for colleagues, customers and communities.
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Experts with empathy
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Explorer mindset
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Example for others
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Exceptional impact
We are committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national, federal, state or local law.
Core Responsibilities
The Commercial Finance Analyst will drive financial predictability and strategic insights by partnering with regional sales leaders to optimize performance. Key tasks include managing annual operating plans, quarterly forecasts, and developing analytical tools to track margin trends and business growth.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance with at least 3 years of experience in financial planning or corporate finance. Proficiency in financial systems like SAP or OneStream and fluency in both English and Dutch are required.
About Chemelex
Industry: Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
Company size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Chemelex is a global leader in electric thermal and sensing solutions, protecting the world’s critical processes, places and people. With over 50 years of innovation and a commitment to excellence, we develop solutions that ensure safety, reliability, and efficiency in diverse environments – from industrial plants and data centers to people’s homes. Chemelex is a Brookfield company. Our trusted brands include Raychem, Tracer, Pyrotenax, and Nuheat, all enabling the world to move forward with confidence.