Lasko Products, an industry leader in providing and manufacturing home environment products for over 100 years, is looking to add a Customer Compliance Analyst to the team. This role will be hybrid working 3 days from or our West Chester, PA headquarters.

The Customer Compliance analyst is a key member of the sales operation team who is a proactive self-starter in a high-paced environment. The Customer Compliance analyst coordinates all functions across customer spend activity to drive timely and accurate accounting of all trade spend related activity. The role supports credit and collections, financial reporting teams, and logistics ensuring that internal controls and audit requirements are met (compliance). The Customer Compliance analyst will support Sales Finance and Sales Leadership with managing all aspects of trade credits and other customer related financial commitments including co-leading Projects related to process improvement on key customer spend lines (e.g. OTIF & defectives).

This role will report to the VP of Sales Operations.

Essential Functions:

• Work closely with sales finance & account teams to understand and interpret the various types of trade spend across all customers.
• Ensure a strong internal control environment exists surrounding all customer spend allocations.
• Drive standardized approach to tracking/monitoring all customer spend activities + document each process.
• Drive continuous improvement in account spend processes.
• Provide and/or co-ordinate support for all relevant functions for deduction & dispute management.
• Ad hoc projects or other tasks as requested to support AR/finance/sales teams.
• Support the month-end and annual close process including accruals

Competencies and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to be proactive, respond quickly, smoothly adjust to changes (Situational Agility)
• Ability to establish processes, make process improvements, effectively organize own work (Process Excellence)
• Identify, extract, and organize the correct data set from financial systems to provide meaningful analysis (Analytic Proficiency)
• Strong project management skills

Required Education and Experience

• Undergraduate in Business, Sales, Marketing or Finance required.
• Functional expertise: 1-3+ years of related commercial, industry experience w
• Experience with information systems (ERP, Deduction management, COGNOS, customer portals)
• Finance experience (business math/economics) preferred.

About the Company

Lasko Metal Products was founded in 1906 by Henry Lasko in Philadelphia. Lasko designs, manufactures, assembles, and distributes portable fans, heaters, and humidifiers for the consumer market (Lasko brand), air purifiers (Germ Guardian brand), ventilation products such as range hoods and bathroom exhaust fans to the construction industry (Air King brand) and water damage restoration products such as air scrubbers and dehumidifiers (B-Air brand). Lasko’s products are sold in North America, South America, the Caribbean, and Asia. The company is recognized as the leader in the portable fan and portable heating categories and proudly operates American manufacturing, assembly, and distribution facilities across the US. Lasko’s leading market share in fans and heaters is 2X – 4X larger than the #2 brand. Lasko’s domestic production capabilities uniquely position Lasko to serve its customers.

Lasko’s Mission is to improve everyday life with trusted products which create a healthier and more comfortable environment. The company’s success is based on 5 Core Values:

• Be Bold:
• Challenge the status quo
• Courageously pursue the impossible
• Reject mediocrity
• Be Together
• Work together for success
• Drive trust and candor with each other
• Prioritize "We" before "I"
• Be A Leader
• Lead with personal conviction
• Inspire each other to deliver high- quality results
• Leverage resilience and agility to drive excellence
• Be Accountable
• Consistently deliver to our customers
• Embrace commitments as a contract
• Take pride in our actions
• Be The Change
• Demonstrate a passion to win
• Make a difference at work in our communities
• Step forward and take initiative

The Lasko family owned and operated Lasko Products until November 2016, when private investment firms Comvest Partners and JW Levin Management Partners (“JWLMP”) acquired the business. Comvest Partners and JWLMP are committed to growing the business with investments in growth and productivity.

Geographic Reach

Based in the greater Philadelphia, PA area, Lasko Products operates in locations throughout the US and Canada. The company’s Tennessee, Texas, and Pennsylvania manufacturing facilities produce both indoor and outdoor fans and heaters. The company also sources select products internationally from China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, and India. Lasko operates distribution centers in all manufacturing locations plus Nevada and Ohio.

Diversity & Inclusion

Comvest and its portfolio companies recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race/national origin, gender/gender identification, sexual orientation, age, disability status, veteran status, religious affiliation, and other protected status. We have a clear vision to be the place where diverse talent wants to come, stay, and do their best work. We know our companies run on the hard work and dedication of our passionate and smart employees. We believe that diversity within an organization creates long-term value for the organization itself and its constituents. Comvest and its portfolio companies are high performing organizations that seeks to hire hard-working and dedicated high performers. While Comvest and its portfolio companies always strive to look at a diverse pool of candidates, we will always choose the most qualified candidate for the job being recruited for, in order to strive for success for both the employee and the firm.