Advisor, Finance - Functions - HR

Cargill•Wayzata, MN

About The Position

Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life’s essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing—today and for generations to come. Job Purpose and Impact The Advisor, Finance- Functions- HR job partners to develop financial strategy, setting clear, financially focused targets for the organization, and ensures effective deployment of capital. As a recognized subject matter expert in commercial finance and financial planning and analysis, this job is a critical business partner for the group finance director and group leader, performing necessary financial rigor and analysis to ensure the achievement of financial results and value creation for the organization. This job also leads the development, management and execution of the capital investment portfolio across the assigned business to align program outcomes, objectives and technical goals with the corporate, group, and functional strategy to deliver business outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience in evaluating business strategies and partnering with cross-functional teams
Experience leading cross-functional projects
Experience in evaluating ‘end-to-end’ business cases that articulate costs & benefits across multiple businesses and functions
Comfort is conducting strategic analyses, including directional financial estimates
Experience with influencing and providing fact-based pushback to senior leaders on budget allocations, financial projections, and strategic decisions
Proficiency translating complex issues into easy to understand messages for both Executive and broad-based communications

Responsibilities

Leads, coordinates and links all financial planning, analysis and forecasting processes, including customer profitability analysis and enterprise service demand drivers, for a multi-regional, regional or multiple country complex business or function, by applying an understanding of key drivers of results and related sensitivities.
Establishes and analyzes performance metrics and business model drivers to drive strategy execution and value creation, applying technology to drive aligned end to end performance management of the business.
Develops and delivers advanced modeling and benchmarking to bring new perspectives to the business, and develops and delivers presentations to communicate insights, including defending positions on controversial topics, and adapting style to continuously seek mutually beneficial solutions.
Leads developing necessary financial projections and proposals of financial forecast and model for the business to support new product development projects.
Partners with finance, business and functional team members to influence others and improve connectivity and effective communication.
Leads the development, management and execution of the capital investment portfolio across the assigned business to meet strategic goals of the business and broad organizational goals, maintaining governance of portfolio and program practices.
Monitors and reports on the status of the portfolio performance metrics and goals, overall business impact of projects within the portfolio and programs, identifies variances from plans, and partners with business leaders to propose corrective actions.
Conducts and interprets research to identify key issues and drive continuous improvement, and monitors business impacts, including financial and non-financial impacts, to influence optimization activities and recommend process changes.