Financial Analyst I

AC Foods; Fresno (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Financial Analyst to support FP&A leadership through insightful financial analysis and reporting. In this dynamic role, you will be responsible for updating key performance indicators, developing financial models, and providing analytical support across various business departments. Your expertise will drive critical business decisions and identify cost-saving opportunities, all while working in a fast-paced environment. Join a team that values excellence, accountability, and transparency, and make a significant impact on the financial health of the organization.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles.
• 2+ years of experience in public accounting or FP&A functions.

Responsibilities

• Update and maintain reporting files for timely decision-making.
• Provide analytical support for sales and operations departments.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Strategic Thinking

Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration

Bachelor’s Degree in Economics

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Tools

Microsoft 365

Power BI

Famous Software

Job description

Description

Position Summary:

The Financial Analyst acts as an important support arm to the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) leadership with day-to-day activities, special projects, and ad-hoc reporting to deliver proactive insight, strategies, financial models, analysis, and metrics to drive and optimize current and future business decisions. This position has accountability for producing accurate financial analyses and reports for the organization. This role is essential to support organizational goals and model best practices, guided by our values of Excellence, Accountability, Transparency and Stewardship (EATS).

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

· Updates daily, weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc reporting files to ensure decision makers have timely information available.

· Develops, tracks and reports on key performance indicators across the portfolio of business.

· Provides analytical support and financial analysis for sales, operations, farming and overhead business departments.

· Draws conclusions, makes recommendations, and develops presentations for key constituents.

· Works closely with operational teams to validate assumptions and quantify potential operational impacts.

· Optimizes, manipulates, and maintains existing reports, databases, and queries.

· Updates and maintains analysis for customer, product, and business performance reports.

· Leverages multiple IT platforms and analytical tools to report and analyze information.

· Proactively looks for and identifies opportunities for implementable value creation.

· Identifies cost savings opportunities across the business.

· Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Essential Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty satisfactorily, including all important aspects of the job- whether performed daily, weekly, monthly, or annually; and any duty that occurs at irregular intervals. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

· Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles, such as GAAP and accrual-based accounting.

· Knowledge of Business Intelligence tool and enterprise resource planning systems.

· Proven analytical, financial modeling and strategic thinking skills.

· Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to communicate both orally and written.

· Skilled with commonsense approach to problem solving and exercising sound judgement to make decisions based on accurate and timely analyses.

· Ability to work in a fast-paced, growing, and ever-changing environment.

· Ability to holistically balance multiple projects and manage deadlines accordingly.

· Willingness to work as a team member.

· Self-motivation, perpetual student mentality and good work ethic.

· Ability to work independently without close supervision.

· High level of integrity and accountability with a strong sense of urgency.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or equivalent experience

· 2+ years of experience in public accounting, FP &A functions, budgeting, farming operations or related business environment, preferable with food/agriculture company

· Intermediate level computer skills in Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point)

· Intermediate Power BI and basic knowledge of Famous Software, preferred.