Procurement Finance Controller

Dawn Foods Global; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Dawn Foods Global is seeking a Procurement Finance Controller to oversee financial reporting and procurement analysis. This remote role involves collaboration with various departments to enhance financial visibility and strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in finance, excellent analytical skills, and experience with SAP and Blue Yonder.

Benefits

Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1

Competitive Pay

401(K) + company match

10 Paid Company Holidays

Paid Time Off

Professional training

Opportunities for career advancement

Qualifications

• Experience in financial reporting and procurement analysis.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to collaborate with multiple departments.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field required.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates monthly and quarterly forecasting and financial reporting.
• Collaborates with Procurement and Risk Management for strategic decision-making.
• Prepares monthly financial reports and conducts in-depth analysis.

Skills

Financial Reporting

Procurement Analysis

Budgeting

Collaboration

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance or related field

Tools

SAP

Blue Yonder

Job description

Join to apply for the Procurement Finance Controller role at Dawn Foods Global

Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values are all part of our recipe for success.

Why work for Dawn Foods?

PEOPLE. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS.

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Professional training
• Family-owned business with over 100 years of service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce.

Job Purpose And Overview

With minimal supervision, the Procurement Finance Controller facilitates monthly and quarterly forecasting, financial reporting, the annual budgeting process, forecasting of raw materials, and analysis of all aspects of procurement spending. They collaborate and engage with Procurement and Risk Management to support planning and strategic decision-making by identifying, maintaining, and evaluating information for enhanced financial visibility.

This is a remote opportunity with travel up to 20%. The position requires attendance at a one-week onsite training session in Jackson, Michigan, during the first week of employment.

What will you do as a Procurement Finance Controller at Dawn Foods?

• Prepares monthly financial reports with support from procurement by collecting, formatting, analyzing, and explaining information (PPV report, GM impact report, Purchase discount report)
• In-depth PPV analysis by line & category
• In-depth value tracking, strategically and tactically maximizing the value generation of our Accelerator value case across multiple lines of the P&L, including manufacturing and buy/sell.
• Reviews and understands standard costs provided by Procurement, instrumental in ensuring accuracy of standard costs in SAP for budget and subsequent cost rolls including budgeting & forecasting.
• Collaborates with Procurement using Demand Plan (Blue Yonder) to build reporting capabilities to accurately forecast raw material needs leading to strategic coverage and hedging decisions.
• Collaborate with Procurement to manage back-to-back customer contracts and time-based commitments for strategic volume manufacturing and buy/sell business (volume estimation, booking and confirmation communications, monthly consumption reporting)
• Closely collaborates and is immersed with Commercial Finance on an ongoing basis to understand dynamic market business opportunities and their alignment with procurement needs
• Provides a monthly view of contractual forecast coverage for a significant number of commodities. Level of detail to include monitoring open contracts, inventory, open orders, and future forecasts. Procurement Analysts handle raw material contracting and forecasting.
• Partners with the procurement department in the formulation of their operating expenses during the budget process
• Works with Process to Pay business process leader to develop optimal processes, policies & procedures.
• Partners on strategic risk management & development of risk management framework
• Assists procurement team with designing templates and processes to aid in contracting raw materials as part of RFPs.
• Responds to financial inquiries from the procurement department by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data.
• Conducts ad hoc financial and business-related studies as management requests.
• Provides support to Procurement, Finance, and R&D on developing ad-hoc analysis.
• Works with broader BI team to develop strategies to improve overall department effectiveness and efficiency; drive improved data quality and consistency across all data solutions.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related duties as assigned or requested.
• Demonstrates the