Finance Director, Category Finance — Strategic FP&A Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

7% 401(k) matching

BRGs for diversity and inclusion

Discretionary annual bonus

Long-Term Incentive (equity)

Job summary

The Kraft Heinz Company is seeking a Finance Director, Category Finance to lead a team that delivers financial analysis and performance insights as a trusted business partner across the organization. You will drive budgeting, forecasting, and reporting to support the BU CFO, President, and Zone teams.

Responsibilities include strategic planning, analytics, and end-to-end P&L management, with a focus on driving performance, efficiencies, and new business initiatives.

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

Job description

The Kraft Heinz Company is seeking a Finance Director, Category Finance to lead a team that delivers financial analysis and performance insights as a trusted business partner across the organization. You will drive budgeting, forecasting, and reporting to support the BU CFO, President, and Zone teams.

Responsibilities include strategic planning, analytics, and end-to-end P&L management, with a focus on driving performance, efficiencies, and new business initiatives.