Senior Profit Finance Analyst

Gordon Food Service; Wyoming (MI); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Gordon Food Service seeks an experienced financial analyst to evaluate customer profitability and analyze sales and margin results to guide leadership decisions.

The role builds and supports standard reports, templates, and tools, delivering insights to drive profitability initiatives and support forecasting processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus four or more years of analytical experience in business operations, finance, or accounting.
• Proven ability to analyze performance, create ROI and translate to business recommendations.
• Knowledge of general ledger accounting, cost accounting and analysis, GAAP, and internal control analysis and implementation.
• Experience manipulating large amounts of data.
• Understanding of AP, AR, Payroll, inventory processes and ability to journalize and reconcile activity.
• Strong problem-solving, numerical, and analytical skills; ability to work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Support sales and business leadership with customer profitability insights and value-add analysis.
• Create profitability and predictive models based on sales data and assess onboarding profitability via lookback reviews.
• Assist with LRP/AOP/Forecast processes and margin optimization initiatives.
• Review month-end margin results and prepare presentations for senior teams.
• Maintain Anaplan and support scorecard setup and development plan objectives.
• Collaborate with Revenue Management to align profitability improvement initiatives.

Skills

Data analysis

Financial analysis

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Job description

Welcome to Gordon Food Service! We are excited that you are thinking about opportunities with us, and we have an amazing story to share. See below for a quick glance of who we are and the impact you could have on the food service industry. There's a seat at our table for you... Position Summary: This position evaluates customer profitability and analyzes sales and margin results to promote sound decision-making among leadership. Builds and supports standard reports, templates and other tools as well as provides valuable insights to help derive customer profitability enhancement initiatives.

What you will do:

• Support sales and business leadership with customer profitability insights and value-add analysis.
• Create profitability and predictive models based on sales input and evaluate post-onboarding customer profitability via lookback reviews and implementation of action steps.
• Assist with the LRP/AOP/Forecast processes.
• Identify, track and drive margin optimization initiatives.
• Perform month-end review process, including: Review segment margin results and trends with sales leadership.
• Prepare month-end presentations for senior teams.
• Prepare and input month-end comments Financial Packet and other relevant documents.
• Review sales and margin KPIs and provide insights to sales leadership.
• Maintain Anaplan in collaboration with Home Office.
• Support scorecard setup and development plan objectives.
• Participate in action teams, key strategic initiatives and special projects.
• Prepare sales and margin input for the reforecast process.
• Analyze and provide insights on the behavior of various sales price and margin components, including, but not limited to, sales credits, rebates, PO-/vendor-related transactions discounts, freight rebates, etc.
• Assist in development of financial acumen.
• Collaborate with the Revenue Management team to ensure the Profit team is complementing that team’s endeavors while avoiding redundancy in efforts.

When you will work:

Monday through Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm. Hybrid Work Schedule: 4 days in office, 1 day from home.

What you bring to the table:

• Bachelor’s degree plus four or more years of experience that includes a strong mathematical and analytical background, basic accounting, and an understanding of general business operations.
• Proven ability to analyze performance, create an ROI and translate that to business recommendations (examples include business operations, finance, insurance, banking/loans, etc).
• Knowledge of general ledger accounting, cost accounting and analysis, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and internal control analysis and implementation.
• Experience manipulating large amounts of data.
• Knowledge of general accounting cycle, with ability to journalize and reconcile activity that flows through the trial balance.
• Ability to recognize inaccurate coding, and the ability to understand AP, AR, Payroll, inventory processes.
• Great ability to problem solve with accuracy and thoroughness.
• Mathematical skills – arithmetic, measures, statistics, money.
• Self-management – self direction, distraction, repetition, prioritization, fluctuations in workload, ambiguity, and accepts responsibility for own actions; follows through on commitments, maintains confidentiality.
• Reacts well under pressure and approaches others in a tactful manner, possesses an entrepreneurial attitude, strategic visioning capabilities, strong decision making skills and enjoys working in a cross-functional team environment.
• Strong knowledge base of Microsoft Office products.
• Willingness to take on additional tasks and duties when necessary.

BE PART OF AN AMAZING CULTURE WHERE WHAT MATTERS TO YOU, MATTERS TO US! Gordon Food Service values our customers and understands that their success is largely dependent upon their workforce. To demonstrate our commitment to our partnership, we will require any candidate who works for a Gordon Food Service customer to provide a letter of support from their management if they are selected for the interview process.

Equal Employment Opportunity is a matter of policy at Gordon Food Service, Inc. and we are committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, please submit your request to [e-mail] and use the words "Accommodation Request" in your subject line.

All Gordon Food Service locations are tobacco‑free. Gordon Food Service is a drug‑free workplace and conducts pre‑employment drug tests.

For more than 125 years, Gordon Food Service has delivered uncompromised quality and heartfelt service. From a butter-and-egg delivery service, it has grown into the largest family‑operated foodservice business in North America. Today, the company serves customers from restaurants, to healthcare and education, across the U.S. and Canada through its distribution network and more than 180 retail stores.