Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst-Job Description

• Manage the monthly forecasting process covering product costs, manufacturing spending, and expenses.
• Leads, manages and implements the annual budget process; designing the budget process and framework to best serve the needs of the company.
• Perform monthly Volume/Rate/Mix analysis and prepare reporting and analysis of variance to budget and prior year.
• Perform monthly expense trend analysis of expenses and prepare reporting and analysis of variance to budget and prior year.
• Engage with Sales and Operations on the results of variance analysis to identify root causes, help develop responses, and follow up on implementation of responses.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Finance for target setting and reporting of results
• Provides management with periodic reporting of KPIs and performance against individual, departmental and company objectives.
• Support quarterly product cost standard setting process
• Prepare Monthly and Quarterly Business Review and Board of Directors meeting materials
• Assist in all other ad hoc requests which require financial modeling, scenario analysis and simulations
• Oversee the design and preparation of reporting packages
• Seek opportunities to improve efficiency and accuracy through documented process improvement.
• Work with Accounting to determine month-end accruals including payroll, inventory, logistics charges, debt service, and other committed expenditures.
• Acts as the Finance Department liaison to select businesses and departments.
• Contributes to enhancing the development and extraction of relevant information and analytics from the corporate ERP platform to support financial planning and analysis (FP&A).

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS Degree in Accounting or Finance; MBA preferred
• 6+ related years of experience in FP&A or cost accounting, preferably food or beverage experience
• Superior problem solving and analytical skills, combined with impeccable business judgment
• Excellent written and oral communication skills that enable clear and concise communication to all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to build successful relationships with business partners and senior management
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Demonstrated ability to meet tight deadlines with emphasis on sustained accuracy and attention to detail
• Experience in cost accounting preferred
• Highly Advanced Excel skills required
• Prior manufacturing experience required
• Experience with data visualization software (eg. Tableau) preferred

Perform costing and analysis.

MFG XP

Design the budget process.

Developing the forecasting: What products they are selling, the costs, where there is room to adjust, what they are expected to make in sales, why is that?

Perform simulations. If we do this, it will benefit us how and cost us how much to do it.

Figure out what’s wrong with their current systems.

Fishbowl reporting system.

Focused heavily on the MFG floor.

Mon-Fri 8-5pm

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $70,000.00 to $90,000.00 /year

Experience:

• FP&A: 4 years (Required)
• manufacturing: 5 years (Required)
• Financial Analysis: 2 years (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor’s (Required)