Finance Manager – Corporate Financial Planning

Oakland, CA - USA

Pleasanton (CPC), CA - USA

Full time

JR23950

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Your role at Clorox:

We are seeking a diligent and strategically minded Finance Manager - Corporate Financial Planning to join our world-class Finance team at The Clorox Company. This outstanding opportunity will enable you to be at the forefront of our financial strategies, driving excellence in Corporate Financial Planning and Reporting. The ideal candidate will be responsible primarily for consolidation of forecasts and closes, technology transformation, key reporting, and controls. To be successful, you must possess strong analytical and interpersonal skills and be an agent of change.

In this role, you will:

Financial Planning and Reporting (60%)

• Planning/Forecasting: Lead the Total Company consolidation for core forecasting processes, including quarterly forecasts, budget, quarterly IR guidance, and pulse updates. Help define critical information needs, partner across Finance teams to gather input and align assumptions, provide meaningful analysis, and deliver clear insights and messaging to be shared with senior stakeholders, including the CEO, CFO, and Investor Relations team. Own the end-to-end quarterly IR guidance process, including consolidation, analysis and presentation materials (40%)

• Close: Support the Total Company quarterly close consolidation, analysis and reporting requirements for Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Investor Relations, Corporate Communications and SEC Reporting. Support the executive close reporting deck and early P&L reviews by providing insights that contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the company’s financial plans and performance vs expectations. Support key report distribution, ensuring timely delivery, accuracy and reflection of changing SEC Reporting requirements (20%)

Technology Transformation (20%)

• Automation of Management reporting and analytics: Support the design and implementation of new dashboard reporting for Corporate Financial Planning. Utilize new technologies to evolve our current processes, automate reporting and enhance business insights

• Demonstrate a continuous improvement approach by proactively identifying, championing and driving technology and operational improvements through partnerships with Business Units and Corporate teams

Financial Analysis and Modeling (10%)

• Decision support: Provide thought leadership and financial expertise to ad hoc analysis.

• Annual Impairment testing: Manage the International segment annual impairment testing process for Goodwill, Trademarks, etc. with creation of deliverables and interaction with International SBUs and SBU Squad.

Internal Controls / Data Integrity (10%)

• Own the Financial Planning control environment, including documentation, testing readiness and remediation, and partnering with SBUs and FRC.

• Manage the Group Reporting-to-Anaplan reconciliation process and escalate and resolve discrepancies appropriately.

• Partner with FRC to reassess the Financial Planning control framework, validating that each control appropriately mitigates an identified risk, and lead redesign efforts should it be deemed necessary to reflect current business needs.

What we look for:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics

• 6+ years of professional experience in Financial Planning and Analysis

• General Understanding of U.S. GAAP

• Advanced proficiency in Excel

• Ability to identify and implement ways to streamline and improve effectiveness and efficiency

• Strong attention to detail and data integrity

• Strong analytical skills, ability to organize a significant amount of data, gain insights from the data and vary key messages to various stakeholders

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

• Strong leadership and influencing skills; self-starter that can work independently and has ability to take ownership of issues and ensure timely resolution.

• Solid interpersonal and collaboration with ability to communicate and coordinate with diverse set of peers, customers, and stakeholders

• Strong planning and organizing skills

• Ability to adapt quickly to unforeseen circumstances

• Power BI experience is highly preferred

• Anaplan experience is highly preferred

• Copilot power user experience is preferred

Workplace type:

Hybrid - 3x per week in the office, 2x per week remote.

Our values-based culture connects to our purpose and empowers people to be their best, professionally and personally. We serve a diverse consumer base which is why we believe teams that reflect our consumers bring fresh perspectives, drive innovation, and help us stay attuned to the world around us. That’s why we foster an inclusive culture where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate, and ultimately able to thrive. Learn more (https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/responsibility/thriving-communities/empowering-our-employees-to-thrive/) .

[U.S.]Additional Information:

At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.

–Zone A: $109,400 - $210,000

–Zone B: $100,300 - $192,500

–Zone C: $91,200 - $175,000

All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.

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We champion people to be well and thrive every single day. We’re proud to be in every corner of homes, schools, and offices—making daily life simpler and easier through our beloved brands. Working with us, you’ll join a team of passionate problem solvers and relentless innovators fueled by curiosity, growth, and progress. We relish taking on new, interesting challenges that allow our people to collaborate and thrive at work. And most importantly, we care about each other as multifaceted, whole humans. Join us as we reimagine what’s possible and work with purpose to make a difference in the world.

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