Finance Director, Category Finance — Lead Strategy

Kraft Heinz; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 190,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision coverage

401k matching

Equity

Job summary

Kraft Heinz in Chicago is hiring a Finance Director, Category Finance to lead a team delivering financial analysis, planning, and performance insights across the BU. You will own the budget process, drive monthly routines, and partner with the BU CFO and President to close gaps and improve performance.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Accounting, Finance or Business, 7+ years of relevant experience, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Accounting, Finance or Business required.
• Minimum 7 years relevant work experience; preferably in category, corporate FP&A, and/or BU finance experience.
• A strong drive to learn and willingness to assume senior-level responsibility.
• Demonstrated ability to multitask and make key decisions.
• Demonstrated strong analytical skills and broad business acumen.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excel technical skills along with systems agility.
• Ability to recognize opportunities to simplify processes and create efficiencies.
• Strong Technical and Systems orientation.
• Motivated self-starter who can effectively work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
• Possesses the ability to lead teams and effectively work through others.
• Team player who manages collaboratively with the ability to influence management, in some cases without authority.

Responsibilities

• Strategic partnership including standard and ad-hoc analysis, driving insight on business gaps to plan and benchmarks.
• Drive BU planning and forecasting processes including monthly Kraft Heinz Integrated Business Planning Process (PMR, DR, IR, MBR), major forecasts, Strategic Plan, and Annual Operating Plan.
• Provide linkage to enterprise-wide process improvement initiatives and leverage best practices to improve, streamline and harmonize internal processes.
• Support US Zone-wide initiatives (e.g. M&A).
• Analytical ownership on business results and achieving financial targets (e.g. trade ops/risks, A&C efficiencies, etc.).
• Strategic planning, modeling, analytics and preparation of management summaries/ presentations.
• Analytical driver on BU strategic initiatives and tracking (e.g. innovation, productivity, Capex, etc.).
• End-to-end P&L management including supporting to enable effective decision making.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Leadership

Multitasking

Decision making

Problem solving

Business acumen

Pressure management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Accounting, Finance or Business

Tools

Excel

Job description

Kraft Heinz in Chicago is hiring a Finance Director, Category Finance to lead a team delivering financial analysis, planning, and performance insights across the BU. You will own the budget process, drive monthly routines, and partner with the BU CFO and President to close gaps and improve performance.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Accounting, Finance or Business, 7+ years of relevant experience, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication.