Financial Analyst

Glanbia

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 70,000 - 80,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Annual bonus

Health and dental plans

401K

Staff discounts

Generous family leave policy

Job summary

An international nutrition company based in Chicago is seeking a Financial Analyst to support financial reporting and accounting functions. This full-time position involves cash management, accounts receivable monitoring, and playing a key role in finance integration. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and relevant experience, with a strong background in accounting and financial analysis. The role offers hybrid working arrangements and is part of a competitive compensation package.

Qualifications

Minimum of one to three years related experience.
Ability to prioritize tasks and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
Ability to read and interpret various instructions.

Responsibilities

Support the month end close process for Flavors.
Play a key role in finance integration and controls.
Monitor accounts receivable and payment processing.

Skills

Financial acumen

Technical accounting skills

Leadership skills

Problem-solving

Cross-functional collaboration

SAP systems experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Qualified CPA, CMA, CIMA, ACA or ACCA

Tools

SAP

MS Excel

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

Job description

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The Opportunity

This role involves supporting and developing the Accounting and Control function in Flavors. Core responsibilities include cash management/application, customer and material reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, accounts receivable monitoring and accounts payable processing. Other key responsibilities include supporting the development of the Commercial/Operations Finance function and SAP/Systems integration that will take place in 2026/2027. Our team is responsible for financial reporting, planning, controls and business partnering with other internal/external stakeholders. This permanent position will report to the Assistant Financial Controller.

Responsibilities

Key player in the day to day running of the finance function in Flavors
Support the month end close process for Flavors and associated reporting and controls
Support the consolidation of monthly results and feed into the monthly reporting process led by the GN consolidation team
Play a key role in the Finance integration by demonstrating Glanbia Nutritionals way of working and participate in efforts to bring the Flavors team into the greater GN finance forum
Accounts Receivable reporting and monitoring
Payment processing in line with associated controls
Support the Commercial/Operations finance function in Flavors as it evolves and key player in reporting KPIs and Commercial performance
Key player in the overall finance and systems integration of Flavors and support Flavors finance team in this work. Be a key liaison between Flavors and GN
Play a role in ensuring that the required accounting control procedures are in place and are effective. This includes the control and reconciliation of the Flavors Balance Sheet in line with the Balance Sheet responsibility matrix
Key role in close process ensuring group deadlines are met
Support the evolving financial planning process and associated reporting requirements
Support financial process and systems improvement activity ensuring all GN financial planning and reporting process are optimized and aligned with overall GN reporting structures
Cross-train with other GN analysts/teams and feed learnings back to Flavors finance team

Skills and Qualifications

Requires a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of one to three years related experience and qualified CPA, CMA, CIMA, ACA or ACCA
Strong financial acumen including strong technical accounting skills
Effective leadership and influencing skills
Ability to work in a cross functional matrix organization
Hands on experience of using and operating SAP systems (preferably with knowledge of BCS) and proficiency with MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
Ability to prioritize tasks and handle multiple projects simultaneously
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
Comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources
Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
Provide leadership to others through example of sharing of knowledge/skill
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization
Ability to write reports and correspondence
Proficient personal computer skills including electronic mail, record keeping, routing database activity, word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.

Where and how you will work

The opportunity will be based in Chicago, Illinois with hybrid working arrangements available which allows you a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance.

Compensation

Compensation for roles at Glanbia varies depending on a wide range of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in IL. This range may not be applicable to other locations. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range. The annual salary for IL based employees for this role is $70-80K with an annual bonus.

What we would like to offer you

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health and dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.

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