Senior Manager Strategic Corporate Finance

at UL, LLC in Northbrook, Illinois, United States

Job Description

This role is HYRBID, 3 days a week on-site at the Chicago or Northbrook, IL Office

+ Act as a key financial decision support leader for CEO and leadership team on shareholder value creation activities. Includes development of board and CEO level presentations.

+ Development of UL intrinsic value financial model including long range financial targets, cash flow, balance sheet modeling. Support organization in quantification of financial levers and how they impact value creation.

+ Cost of capital determination for consolidated, segment, costumer operating units, and acquisitions.

+ Close partnership and collaboration with the investor relations function including providing financial content, synthesizing, and evaluating external research analyst information.

+ Financial support for strategic enterprise-wide projects (i.e. margin expansion initiatives, capital prioritization, etc.).

+ Responsible for systems and processes to support cash flow forecasting and value-based management (including Oracle EPM).

+ University Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or related discipline plus generally 7-10 years directly related experience within area of expertise. MBA preferred.

+ 3+ of experience in equity research, investment banking, or similar role.

+ Demonstrated ability in financial modeling and valuation methodologies. Ability to think from an external investor lens as well as an internal operator perspective.

+ Strong understanding of capital market and familiarity with capital market tools (CapIQ, FactSet, etc.)

+ Self-starter and comfort with ambiguity and working with tight deadlines.

+ Strong written and verbal communication. Ability to synthesize data to extract insights and communicate with senior leaders.

+ Mission: For UL, corporate and social responsibility isn’t new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 130 years and is deeply engrained in everything we do.

+ People: Ask any UL employee what they love most about working here, and you’ll almost always hear, “the people.” Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL. We’re able to deliver the best because we employ the best.

+ Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers’ create. We’re inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.

+ Grow & achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.

+ Total Rewards: All employees at UL are eligible for bonus compensation. UL offers a generous 401k matching structure of up to 5% of eligible pay. Additionally, we invest an additional 4% into your retirement saving fund after your first year of continuous employment. We provide Healthcare Reimbursement Accounts and Health Savings Accounts that UL contributes to twice per year! Depending on your role, you can work with your manager on flexible working arrangements. We also provide employees with paid time off including vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer time off.

UL LLC has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To assure full implementation of this equal employment policy, we will take steps to assure that:

Persons are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, color, age, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, religion, creed, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship, ancestry, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy, marital or familial status, or any other protected category under applicable law.