CKS Packaging Inc

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Partner with Sales, Business Development, and Product Management to shape growth strategies across key markets, channels, and customers
• Provide financial insight into demand trends, customer behavior, and market dynamics
• Lead forecasting processes for volume, revenue, and price realization across product lines and regions
• Develop models incorporating vol/mix, pricing changes, and raw material impacts
• Lead pricing strategy, including price increases, surcharges, and tracking
• Analyze and improve gross margin by product, customer, and channel
• Conduct profitability analysis at customer/account, product/sku, channel/region
• Deliver insights on key commercial and financial KPIs
• Build models to support capital investments tied to commercial growth
• Drive process improvements in forecasting, reporting, and data analytics.

Commercial Finance Director

• Manage internal management reporting, commodity index tracking, raw material analyses, supplier cost modeling, and key performance metric development.
• Perform detailed raw material analyses, supplier cost modeling, and commodity index tracking to manage risk and drive cost control.
• Collaborate with global procurement and Strategic Business Unit (SBU) operations to develop streamlined, automated reporting templates that reduce administrative burdens.
• Provide critical analytical support to help teams achieve Mauser Earnings Initiatives Projects (EIP) goals, driving global cost optimization and business process integration.
• Review and interpret monthly profit and loss (P&L) statements across strategic business units to identify, quantify, and explain variances driven by material price fluctuations, freight volatility, and operational shifts.
• Prepare internal management reporting and analysis to support daily operational decision-making, executive leadership, and Board of Directors presentations.
• Lead the development of budgets, financial forecasts, planning models, and monthly inflation data consolidation.
• Collect, consolidate, and validate monthly financial results from multiple business units to ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment with corporate finance teams.
• Assist in preparing monthly results decks for distribution to executive management and the Board of Directors.

Senior Financial Analyst – Procurement and Logistics

Accountant

• Prepare JEs to accrue any unrecorded revenue or cost items; accruals, handle special plant events accounting - e.g. closures, start-ups, insurance claims etc.
• Prepare balance sheet account reconciliations for “plant-controlled” balance sheet accounts per company policy
• Produce accurate monthly BS & P&L’s for the plants in accordance with GAAP
• Establish, communicate, and track plant closing calendar
• Lead monthly review meetings of plant P&L's
• Support inter/intra company reconciliations
• Liaise with FP&A and finance team members
• Explain variance fluctuations in plants P&L’s
• Provide accounting guidance to plant managers for invoice coding
• Ad-hoc analytics for responsible sites’ BS & P&L’s
• Track and report progress of assigned projects
• Lead effective communication, coordination and cooperation amongst the project team and between other company functions or business unit leaders.
• Build and develop relationships with key stakeholders across the company.

Senior Accountant

Procurement

• Develop and execute sourcing strategy for Indirect categories of about $50 million spend that will evolve based on business needs. Indirect spend categories include Safety Supplies, Forklifts, Uniforms, Office Supplies, Facilities Management, Travel and Shop Expenses.
• Collaborate with Operational Teams across NA Large Packaging and NA Small Packaging Business Unit to execute Indirect sourcing strategies as well as day to day operational needs.
• Identify, develop, & execute savings opportunities including, but not limited to supplier consolidation, RFQ, fact-based negotiations.
• Lead the negotiation of a commercial supply agreement (i.e. contract) with suppliers included within the sourcing strategy.
• Act as project manager and lead cross functional team to carry out project implementations.
• Foster collaborative and effective communication between supply base and internal stakeholders (i.e. operations, plant specific Purchasing personnel, quality, engineering, sales, etc.)

Senior Buyer – Indirect Sourcing

Director

• Design and execute comprehensive EH&S strategies and policies
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, DOT and other regulatory bodies
• Conduct risk assessments and lead incident investigations
• Drive effective risk assessments and in depth incident investigations for root cause, taking lead on significant cases as needed
• Develop and deliver training programs on safety and environmental practices
• Monitor and report EH&S performance metrics and KPIs
• Lead emergency preparedness and response planning
• Manage hazardous materials, waste disposal, and pollution prevention programs
• Liaise with government agencies and external stakeholders
• Promote continuous improvement and employee engagement in EH&S initiatives

Commercial Finance Director

Senior Financial Analyst – Procurement and Logistics

Senior Accountant

Senior Buyer – Indirect Sourcing

Director, EH&S