Senior Analyst, Commercial Finance - Food & Industrial Ingredients US/CAN Responsible for partnering with the Food Ingredients Commercial team in leading the development of the topline plan/forecast for the US/Canada Food Ingredients business, performing the data collection and preparation during contracting, preparation of financial analyses for monthly and quarterly review meetings with senior business leaders, and preparing ad hoc analysis requests and special projects as necessary.
Core Responsibilities:
- Partner with the Commercial team to lead and develop topline volume and revenue plan/forecasts for the Sweetener Solutions business which incorporate new product offerings, customer order trends, customer product sales, share of customer requirements, macro trends impacting customer’s products, and unique sales history. Prepare variance analyses for leadership team. Support Commercial team pricing analyses during the contracting process to meet financial targets.
- Drive financial analyses and presentations for the monthly executive meetings and quarterly business review meetings. Assist leadership team with ad hoc requests in support of strategic and operational planning initiatives. Support efforts to drive visibility to customer level profitability and increase Commercial Finance modeling capabilities.
- Lead monthly customer analyses for Food Ingredients sales team and provide sales team with individual territory reporting and ad hoc requests as needed. Support preparation of market intelligence and business driver documentation for Commercial team.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements and constructively propose new solutions that increase value and improve business performance.
- Ability to deal effectively with dynamic change and support team as needed.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with the Commercial team in order to facilitate effective communication of business needs.
- Partner with Supply Chain to drive insight into Food Ingredients demand plan to drive greater understanding of the business and provide insights into specific customer trends.
Qualified candidates will have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required.
- Minimum 5 years experience in Finance, Accounting or related field.
- Experienced at developing trend analysis, growth plans based upon unique drivers, and scenario development.
- Experience working within SAP planning systems strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge and demonstrated experience with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Team player with excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to lead cross-functional team activities and deliver results.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze financial results and apply variance analysis effectively to explain volume, price and mix drivers.
- Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving skills.
- Willingness to travel approximately 10% of the time.
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