Strategy Business Partner – Financial Strategy

Job Description

Strategy Business Partner | Lhoist

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Lhoist North America, operating within a manufacturing and mining environment. This position is critical for guiding operational strategy, capital investments, and business growth by shaping financial insights. The successful candidate will apply professional skills in problem structuring, financial valuation, and strategic planning to support the company’s future.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person

• Mission: To shape financial insights that guide operational strategy, capital investments, and business growth.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP (knowledge is a plus)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Financial Modeling: Build and maintain financial models to evaluate long-range plans, investment opportunities, and risk scenarios.
• Business Analysis: Analyze business cases tied to growth, efficiency, and profitability, performing ad hoc analysis for senior leadership.
• Strategic Partnering: Partner with operations, commercial, and supply chain teams to align financial plans with strategic business priorities.
• Reporting & Tracking: Prepare financial reporting packages focused on strategic KPIs and forward-looking performance, conducting variance analysis.
• Project Evaluation: Lead valuation, financial due diligence, and scenario modeling for acquisitions, expansions, and capital projects.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, or Engineering.
• Experience: At least 3-6 years of strategic finance, FP&A, consulting, or investment analysis experience in a manufacturing or capital-intensive setting.
• Skills: Proven financial planning and modeling, strategic thinking with a deep understanding of financial value drivers, exceptional verbal and written communication, strong collaboration and influencing across functions, and data analysis to translate complex information into actionable insights.
• Bonus: Master’s degree in Business Administration, five (5) years of proven strategic finance or consulting experience, previous mergers and acquisitions exposure, and familiarity with cost accounting, inventory control, and capital project evaluation.