Senior Financial Analyst

StevenDouglas is partnered with a high-growth CPG company to identify a Senior Financial Analyst. This role is newly created to support growth and is a highly visible role with responsibilities spanning corporate and commercial finance.

• Support the annual budget and periodic forecasting processes.
• Prepare and maintain financial models supporting revenue, trade spend, gross margin, and other key financial metrics.
• Analyze actual results compared with budget, forecast, and prior year and identify key drivers of variances.
• Assist in developing forecast assumptions in partnership with Finance and business teams.
• Prepare monthly financial reporting and supporting analysis for management review.

• Provide financial analysis and decision support to assigned business areas and cross-functional partners.
• Analyze sales, volume, pricing, gross margin, and other key business drivers.
• Support customer, product, channel, and promotional profitability analysis.
• Assist with financial analysis related to pricing, trade spend, marketing investments, and new product initiatives.
• Develop ad hoc analyses to support business questions and decision-making.
• Build an understanding of key business and financial drivers and communicate insights to Finance and business partners.

• Prepare recurring financial reports, dashboards, and KPIs to monitor business performance.
• Analyze trends and identify significant changes, risks, and opportunities impacting financial results.
• Support monthly business and financial performance reviews through preparation of analysis and presentation materials.
• Ensure accuracy and consistency of financial reporting and underlying data.
• Assist in improving reporting and analytical tools to provide greater visibility into business performance.

• Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and accuracy of financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis.
• Support enhancements to FP&A systems, reporting tools, and financial models.
• Develop and maintain standardized templates and analytical tools.
• Assist with projects focused on improving financial processes and data quality.