Expert Financial Analyst - FP&A

CHS Inc; Inver Grove Heights (MN); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agribusiness is seeking an experienced finance leader to drive financial analysis and support strategic initiatives. This role involves partnering with various teams to optimize sales and margins while providing analytical insights. Candidates should have a strong finance background and excellent communication skills, with a focus on data-driven decision-making.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) and profit sharing

Paid time off and tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Finance, Accounting, and/or Financial Planning and Analysis.
• Strong data, systems, analytical, and project management skills.
• Experience creating professional presentations with exceptional story-telling skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead GTM management reporting and analysis for sales and margin optimization.
• Support customer-facing teams by providing financial insights and analysis.
• Identify volume and margin growth opportunities across the business.

Skills

Data analysis

Project management

Financial analysis

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Business, Business Administration

MBA

Tools

SAP/SAC

Power BI

CRM software

Job description

CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our 10,000 employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.

Summary

CHS is seeking an experienced finance leader and business partner to support our enterprise customer development team. This position will strengthen analytical capabilities, provide financial and decision support to enterprise-wide go-to-market (GTM) initiatives and help identify volume and margin growth opportunities across the CHS enterprise. The successful candidate must have strong data, systems, analytical, and project management skills, and be comfortable working in a matrixed organization. This role will partner with CHS’ go-to-market (GTM) business and leadership team, manage one direct report, and will report to the Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, Enterprise Customer Development.

Responsibilities

Strengthen GTM and FP&A analytical capabilities

• Lead GTM management reporting and analysis to enable identification of sales and margin optimization opportunities for our wholesale, retail and international operations
• Provide financial insights and analysis to support customer-facing teams such as sales effectiveness, creating a robust, driver-based forecast model to enable predictive analytics
• Support the sales operations team for any other commercial KPIs, such as size per deal, sales force productivity, attach rate, churn, and attrition rates

Support GTM initiatives to identify volume and margin growth opportunities across business

• Partner with Directors of Strategic Accounts and Directors of Key Accounts to identify volume and margin opportunities
• Partner with product line FP&A teams, complementing product line reporting & analysis with enterprise-wide opportunity identification as well as margin opportunities reporting and analysis
• Partner with sales operations team to reconcile sales operations data to financial systems and leverage data to identify commercial cross-sell and up-sell opportunities
• Partner with IT resource to automate and streamline volume and margin reporting across product lines
• Partner with sales leadership to develop and/or refine internal KPIs to drive top line growth

Minimum Qualifications (required)

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Business, Business Administration, or related field
• 7+ years of experience in Finance, Accounting, and/or Financial Planning and Analysis

Additional Qualifications

• • Experience creating professional presentations with exceptional story-telling skills
  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills across organization and to senior leaders
  • Experience with data visualization tools, SAP/SAC, Power BI, and CRM software
  • Confirmed proficiency in financial analysis, modeling, and forecasting
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve complex business problems
  • Experienced user of ERP systems and forecasting tools as well as strong experience working with various types of data and information
  • Excellent organizational skills, ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks at once
  • Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the organization
  • MBA/CPA/CMA
  • Experience with predictive and prescriptive analytics
  • Previous experience providing financial support to sales and sales support team
  • Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse. #LI-WB1

CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.

CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.

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