Senior FP&A Analyst, Manufacturing is responsible for partnering and supporting our Director of Finance by developing appropriate financial models to meet changing business needs. The Senior FP&A Analyst, Manufacturing will provide timely financial insight relevant to decision-makers across the business. There will be a distinct focus on budgeting, analysis, forecasting, and other financial modeling.
Responsibilities
- Performs a broad range of complex financial planning and analysis.
- Monitors actual results of financial data against plans, forecasts, budgets, determine trends, and explains financial results.
- Prepares detailed reports and presentations for review by all levels of management.
- Consolidates a wide range of operating and financial projections for the development of short-term and long-term business plans.
- Evaluates capital expenditures and depreciation.
- Develops automated reporting and forecasting tools for more efficient use of financial data.
- Partners with cross-functional groups involved in both manufacturing operations and sales and marketing.
- Identifies business challenges and provides analysis to support decision-making.
- Prepares and analyzes inputs that support operational reporting, budgeting, and strategic/complex data models.
- Supports budget consolidation for the corporate office.
- Prepares analysis of monthly performance versus budget and sales forecast and provides management level commentary and summaries of key business drivers of change.
- Prepares dashboards for management, including metrics for operations and sales analysis.
- Drives continuous process improvements in FP&A processes.
- Works cross-functionally and coordinates efforts of key stakeholders.
- Analyzes customer sales forecast to support the annual budgeting and planning processes for Trinidad's manufacturing locations.
- Supports bi-annual review of pricing standards.
- Analyzes annual labor, production overhead, and packaging material costs by the facility and prepares annual costing standards for the organization.
- Analyzes bulk commodity and packaging material yield performance (shrink analysis).
- Supports and analyzes the annual capital planning process.
- Prepares and delivers comprehensive evaluations, proposals, and recommendations to executive leadership, committees, and other stakeholders.
- Develops and recommends monthly operational metrics and dashboard reporting.
- Analyzes monthly yield for commodities, packaging, and monthly inventory, including product yield analysis, cost analysis, position reporting, and months/days on-hand reporting.
- Compares budget to actual variance reporting, including production, labor, overhead, and sales variance reporting.
- Analyzes Profit and Loss for Trinidad's operating divisions.
- Conducts financial analyses with a high degree of complexity.
- Participates in the financial review process and other plan presentations with senior management, offering interpretation beyond the data.
- Recommends changes in processes and modeling tools that will improve the accuracy of the analyses and forecasts.
- Provides technical support on financial analysis projects.
- Provides guidance and direction to Financial Analyst I and II.
- Performs other duties as assigned by management.
What We Need
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or equivalent required.
- Minimum of five (5) years’ experience or more as a Financial Analyst in manufacturing and CPG retail sales environment or a minimum of two (2) years’ experience or more as a Senior Analyst or similar role required.
- Strong understanding of ERP systems.
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP and Generally Accepted Auditing Standards.
- High standards of accuracy and high-level attention to detail.
- Advanced proficiency MS Office experience (Excel, Outlook, Word, and PPT).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Self-starter and ability to work independently as well as cross-functional teams.
- Strong research, organization, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Thorough understanding of project management.
Preferred Education and Experience:
- CMA strongly preferred.
- Excellent financial modeling and reporting building skills preferred.
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