Purpose of Position:
The Financial Planning and Analysis Director leads the budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, implementation, and business strategy for Del Monte North America. Conducts financial analysis, modeling, forecasting, and reporting efforts to ensure efficient financial operations. The primary focus is to provide on-time, accurate information to Management allowing them to drive their business with complete visibility.
Accountabilities:
- Provide the overall strategic direction of the Financial Planning and Analysis function in the production and delivery of all standard and ad-hoc reporting updates, presentation materials, market, competition, and profitability analysis.
- Accountable to make the final decisions and recommendations to ensure quality, delivery, and documentation of all the deliverables.
- Assist in monthly financial closings.
- Provide Monthly P&L by entities.
- Prepare P&Ls to support sales agreements, new investments, or feasibility projects. Efficiently compile monthly reports actuals and forecast and analyze the performance.
- Develop an executive KPI scorecard upon which senior management can focus their performance discussions, address needed adjustments, and impact future results to maximize the bottom line.
- Prepare weekly reports together with Ops and Sales to provide perspective on the financial achievement of the current week and weeks to come.
- Partner with Business Process & System Improvement to integrate tools and technologies to produce the reports and analysis.
- Partner with senior leadership (SVPs & VPs) in the business functional areas to provide financial insights, recommendations, and best practices to help the company make effective resource allocation decisions.
- Coordinate with other areas of Finance to ensure projected financial outcomes resulting from business plans are properly planned and forecasted.
- Research issues as identified, report findings, suggest alternative courses of action, and constantly look for process improvements.
- Special Projects as assigned.
Minimum Skills Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (e.g. Business, Finance, etc.), from an accredited institution.
- At least 5 years of prior experience in a similar role.
- Good knowledge of ERPs (SAP/ SAP GUI preferred) and BI tools (Power BI/ DAX functions).
- Data Manipulation and Data Definition, Relational Database, MS SQL Server.
- Advanced Knowledge of Microsoft Office programs (i.e. Excel, Power Pivot, Access DB, Word, Outlook, Power Query & Power Automate).
- Advanced Knowledge of BI.
- Demonstrated leadership presence and maturity.
- Results and team-oriented.
- Excellent communication (i.e. oral and written) and leadership skills.
- Ability to multi-task and be detail-oriented.
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred:
- Some knowledge of the produce industry, supply and food chain management, and/or agricultural background.
***Please note: This position does not qualify for relocation expenses.***
DEL MONTE FRESH PRODUCE IS AN EEO/AA/V
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