Financial Analyst, Graphics Solutions

Summary

Avery Dennison is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company. The Financial Analyst, Graphics Solutions will support the North American FP&A and Commercial Finance Team by improving financial analysis, data, and reporting capabilities. The role provides financial insights, supports forecasting and planning, manages commercial performance reporting, and collaborates across functional teams to enable informed business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Comprehensive Commercial Finance & Strategic Business Partnership: Serve as a key business partner to the Sales and Marketing organizations, providing proactive analytical guidance and support for our commercial organization. This will be in tandem with developing a deep understanding of customers, sales and marketing strategies, and profitability across our portfolio
• Forecasting, Planning & AOP: Help support weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasting processes and month-end closing activities. Take a hands-on role in pulling and structuring large data files for the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and analyzing key revenue drivers (Price, Volume, Mix)
• Data Analytics & Standardized Reporting: Manage daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly commercial performance reporting. Leverage Business Intelligence tools to fulfill ad-hoc financial requests and empower commercial leadership with actionable margin insights
• Driving Business Analytics: Leveraging our Business Intelligence tools and platforms, empower the team with tools and models to understand result drivers to make informed business decisions that lead to profitable growth. Quick interpretation of data and financial modeling will be required to further answer the current needs of the business and to continue leading proactive insights
• Cross-functional Collaboration and Continuity: Drive synergy and optimization of commercial finance work. Additionally, collaborate on finance matters with cross-functional teams (Commercial Sales, Marketing, IT, Finance) and cross-train with senior team members to develop sustainable processes and maintain business continuity
• Controllership and Compliance: Support activities related to finance compliance and policies (SOX, Trade Compliance, External & Internal Audit, etc.), identify compliance gaps, and provide meaningful analysis to explain variances and meet all required audit deadlines. Maintain a high-level of controllership in regards to financial accuracy and transparency

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting required
• 3+ years of financial and/or accounting experience
• Strong ability to build robust, dynamic financial models that support clear storytelling and rapid comprehension for business stakeholders
• Expert-level, hands-on capabilities in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel (advanced formulas, VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, large dataset management)
• Strong collaborative bias and superior communication skills to articulate financial results, variance drivers, and strategic opportunities
• Initiative to drive automation, rapidly learn and adopt AI tools, and continuously challenge processes for optimization and actionable insights
• Manufacturing or commercial environment experience
• Experience with Oracle EBS/R12, Salesforce, Pricefx, and Oracle Business Intelligence (OAC)

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting required
• 3+ years of financial and/or accounting experience
• Strong ability to build robust, dynamic financial models that support clear storytelling and rapid comprehension for business stakeholders
• Expert-level, hands-on capabilities in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel (advanced formulas, VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, large dataset management)
• Strong collaborative bias and superior communication skills to articulate financial results, variance drivers, and strategic opportunities
• Initiative to drive automation, rapidly learn and adopt AI tools, and continuously challenge processes for optimization and actionable insights

Nice to Haves

• manufacturing or commercial environment experience
• Experience with Oracle EBS/R12, Salesforce, Pricefx, and Oracle Business Intelligence (OAC)

Benefits

• Health & Wellness benefits starting on day 1 of employment
• Paid parental leave
• 401K eligibility
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program eligibility / Health Advocate
• Paid vacation and Paid holidays
• Remote / Hybrid work flexibility available (based in Mentor, OH)