Senior Financial Analyst 16624287

My client is a $400m organic and humane food manufacturer looking to add a Senior Financial Analyst to their team. While r eporting to an awesome Manager , this role will focus on all aspects of the FP&A function including, budgeting, financial modeling, forecasting, and month end close process. This role can be fully remote with the occasional travel to their office in Harrisonburg, VA. Salary for this role will be around $120k, depending on experience.

Essential Functions

• Support FP&A responsibilities with annual budget process, strategic planning, and other financial forecasting, including developing models, collaborating with operational managers, and tracking all aspects of the planning processes.
• Assist with daily yield reporting and weekly inventory reports across the processing plants and third-party freezers to assist operations managers in understanding daily yield performance and inventory levels. Provide variance analysis and utilize problem solving skills to find gaps in data.
• Be an integral part of the monthly closing process including preparing Profit & Loss statement, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flows along with identifying and explaining variances and other trends. This would also include assisting with the development of the Monthly Management Performance Review (MPR) report including graphs, commentary, and additional analysis as needed.
• Create and maintain actionable KPI reports, and dynamic dashboards designed to monitor and evaluate finance performance, operating expenses, forecasting, HR indicators, and other indicators to help monitor the health and efficiency of the operational areas and the company.
• Assist operational managers in capital expenditure (CAPEX) request and approval process including financial modeling, ROI analysis, new initiatives feasibility, business plans, and tracking these requests through the approval process. This would also include evaluating completed CAPEX projects to confirm desired savings / efficiencies were achieved.
• Work closely with the Sales team on customer performance tracking, inventory tracking, sales mix analysis, as well as Sales Dollar, Sales mix, pricing fluctuations, and new customer feasibility.
• Become fluent in the ERP platform and understand the flow of data through the system and reporting. Able to reconcile ERP reports for data integrity and convert the data into meaningful reports and dashboards.
• Provide advanced data collection utilizing Business Intelligence (BI) platforms and pivot tables to collect, analyze, reconcile, evaluate, and report data to increase productivity, financial analysis, dashboards, and special projects.
• Assist Cost Accountant in working with Sales & Marketing on modeling new product cost estimates as well as analyzing and reviewing product costing data for accuracy and reasonableness across product categories
• Work with Operations on Capital Spending tracking, purchasing analysis, and logistics analysis.
• Assist the FP&A team and Controller’s Office on annual financial auditing tasks, financial reporting for lenders and investors, and tracking debt position.
• Be an active member and contributor of the Finance team by educating users on financial models and concepts and articulating feedback to users of financial information in an easy-to-understand manner.
• Willingness and eagerness to learn about the poultry industry and apply financial analytics to achieve the Farmer Focus strategic goals and work to cultivate the Farmer Focus Culture.
• All other related duties as assigned by Management.

Qualifications & Requirements :

• Bachelors’ Degree in Finance, Business Analytics, Accounting, or related field required.
• Minimum 3 - 5 years’ experience in financial analytics or accounting
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel skills including data modeling, pivot tables, dashboards, Lookups, charts, and graphing required for analysis, reporting, and presentation purposes.
• Solid understanding of business support systems like ERP, CRM, Business Analytics / OLAP platforms, accounting principles, and cost accounting principles to maximize analytical performance.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills with the ability to correspond verbally and in writing in a manner that results in mutual understanding.
• Self-directed with attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple tasks, changing priorities, and being assigned a variety of financial tasks.
• Self-starter to work independently and with a team.
• Effective reporting and presentation skills.
• Positive attitude, good judgment, and excellent time management skills.

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