Senior Analyst, Supply Chain Channel Management

Senior Analyst, SCM Channel Management

PURPOSE AND DESCRIPTION

The Senior Analyst, Supply Chain Channel Management, will be assigned to specific client accounts and will be responsible for using data and inputs from the supply chain team to complete financial and operational analysis and provide recommendations on options that will help the team define the best path forward when it comes to achieving program targets.  Depending on the project or recommendation, this person will also be responsible for keeping track of targets and deadlines to make sure we deliver new or different capabilities on time and on budget (with leadership oversight). 

The successful candidate must possess strong financial, analytical, problem solving, and basic project management skills, as well as be able to work cross-functionally with Asurion finance and supply chain stakeholders.  A strong sense of curiosity and ability to question “why something is as it is” is paramount.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Program decision making

• Build financial models in excel and use that data to make recommendations to the business about the best path forward. 
• Understand financial modeling built by others to understand and communicate downstream business impacts to various levels within the organization.
• Validate complex financial models to make sure inputs align with business KPIs and capabilities.
• Provide inputs into pricing exercises, as directed by leadership.  These inputs will be gathered from dashboards or analysis from multiple sources but will potentially need to be adjusted to address each pricing exercise.
• This person will work with their leader to create compelling material and commentary for use in presentations to explain financial findings, business cases, and monthly results/priorities. 

Performance tracking and monitoring

• Monitor and explain changes in program KPIs.  This will require cross-functional work with the supply chain teams to understand root causes of issues as well as articulating what the team is doing to address the issues. 
• Understand financial impact of movements in KPIs to help prioritize work for self and to know when it is important to do more research on KPI trends.
• Understand and document supply chain processes and guiding principles.  This will help identify process gaps, similarities and differences by program that may need to be standardized, and identify potential areas to explore for initiative savings.
• Serve as an inspector in forums such as the WPM and initiative meeting, asking critical questions about impacts to metrics and questioning “why something is as it is.”

Program communication

• Working with supply chain team and finance, coordinate flow of information and assimilate data necessary to prepare required weekly and monthly dashboarding and presentations that will be used in meetings.
• Speak to portions of program performance and metrics in standard weekly and monthly forums such as the MBR.
• Serve as a key business connection between supply chain, finance, and Program Management, communicating changes, trends, and forecast inputs to both groups to keep our financial projections and business cases as updated and aligned as possible.

Issue Management

• In a complex and dynamic business such as ours, things break and exceptions arise.  When alerted by leaders across supply chain of an event that requires research, this person will work with the supply chain team to identify what happened and what we may need to do to fix it.
• Identify root causes of issues and push the supply chain team to fix processes in sustainable ways.

Project Management

• Help leaders collect inputs or status updates from members of the project team as requested.
• Work with leadership to pull together project plan timelines, deliverables, and owners.

 OTHER FUNCTIONS

• Other duties as assigned

 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Skills/Knowledge: 

• Bachelor’s degree and 2-4 years of experience in finance, Accounting, or Project management required. If experience falls outside of these disciplines, then candidate must demonstrate cross-functional work experience across multiple business functions that gives them financial/project management exposure. 
• Experience in financial excel modeling, especially operations FP&A
• Systems aptitude
• The ability to develop complex formulas, perform calculations and demonstrate how data was derived
• Experience with financial or analytical scenario analysis with complex data sets.
• The ability to create reports, dashboards and financial records
• Demonstrated ability to collect and organize data to help frame problems and possible solutions.
• Position requires a strong verbal & written communication skill set and the ability to communicate well with all levels of management as well as across various disciplines
• A self-directed individual with a strong ability to manage ambiguity and who adapts readily and easily to changes in priorities and business conditions
• Ability to excel in an open, flexible, results-oriented, performance-based environment
• Ability to maintain multiple/overlapping deadlines and deliver in a timely fashion
• This role is primarily based in the Nashville area.  The ability to be in the office at least 3 days per week is required.