FP&A Analyst

Job Description

FP&A Analyst | Pactiv Evergreen Inc.

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Novolex, formerly Pactiv Evergreen Inc., located in Lake Forest, IL. Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging, supporting diverse industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery, food processing, grocery, and industrial sectors. The company’s expertise spans a range of substrates like resin, paper, molded fiber, and aluminum, offering over 120 product categories and 39,000 SKUs. This FP&A Analyst role is critical for supporting Novolex’s financial planning, reporting, and performance management processes, partnering closely with business leaders to deliver accurate, timely, and actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Lake Forest, IL
• Pay: $54300–$90500 yearly
• Mission: Delivers accurate, timely, and actionable financial insights to drive strategic business decisions and enhance performance management across Novolex.
• Tech Stack: Excel, Power BI, Tableau, SAP, OneStream

What You’ll Actually Do
• Monthly Reporting: Support the preparation, consolidation, and delivery of comprehensive monthly management reports, encompassing detailed P&L statements, cash flow analyses, margin performance, and key operational KPIs.
• Performance Visibility: Maintain and enhance standard reporting on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to ensure clear visibility into business performance, rigorously ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment of data across various reporting sources.
• Strategic Presentations: Partner in the development of critical monthly, quarterly, and Board-level presentations, including the design of standardized templates and ensuring content alignment to effectively communicate financial performance.
• Financial Planning: Support the end-to-end annual operating plan (AOP) and forecasting processes, managing all aspects from template design and implementation to timeline management, consolidation, and coordination across diverse business units, while ensuring timely and accurate system submissions aligned to corporate targets.
• Ad Hoc Analysis & Improvement: Develop and deliver insightful ad hoc analyses and reporting to fulfill specific business needs, leadership requests, and strategic initiatives, identifying opportunities to enhance reporting processes, improve data integrity, and reduce manual effort through automation.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a closely related analytical field.
• Experience: Bring 1 to 4 years of professional experience specifically in FP&A, corporate finance, or other relevant analytical roles.
• Skills: Demonstrate strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills to dissect complex data; exhibit advanced proficiency in Excel, including the application of complex formulas; capable of synthesizing large and complex data sets to build flexible reporting templates and financial models; able to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines while communicating effectively with cross-functional stakeholders; maintain a high attention to detail and an unwavering commitment to data accuracy.
• Bonus: Experience utilizing business intelligence (BI) tools such as Power BI or Tableau is preferred; familiarity and experience with ERP and EPM solutions like SAP or OneStream is a plus.