Career Foundation Program (CFP) Associate - Corporate Finance

Smithfield Foods • Smithfield, VA

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About The Position

As a Career Foundation Program (CFP) Associate – Corporate Finance, you will play a key role in analyzing business results and tracking key financial targets. As you move through the program, you’ll have the opportunity to learn our business, question company performance, and help to identify threats and opportunities. Your work will contribute to the team’s goal of acting as the analytical engine of the Company to provide insights and support channel and produce management in making optimal business decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in Accounting, Finance or related field; or currently enrolled college student with an anticipated graduation by end of current semester.
• Knowledge of financial and business principles.
• Must possess a high level of professionalism, discretion and ability to self-manage his/her time from remote locations.
• Strong leadership and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Proficient in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• High standards of accuracy.
• Currently authorized to work in the U.S.
• Ability to work well with others in a fast paced, dynamic environment.

Nice To Haves

• High level of organizational planning.
• Teamwork and analytical reasoning skills.
• Business Warehouse experience.
• Product costing experience.
• Experienced in the use of SAP.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Strong self-motivation and organization skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide daily direction to the business line managers and channel management.
• Evaluate financial and business related data to provide valuable, accurate and timely information on sales performance.
• Analyze key performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variances.
• Perform competitor and industry analysis.
• Review RFP’s to ensure revenue rates and cost assumptions are valid and projected margins are within business goals.
• Support the Company’s financial reporting and analytical data requests, including weekly and monthly financial reporting as well as ad-hoc reporting and analysis.
• Utilize a business intelligence tool and implement dashboard reporting to monitor daily sales against targets.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual financial forecasts.
• Improve and streamline the Organization’s planning process.
• Design reports that present both actual and budget data in a concise manner for use by management in decision making.
• Perform special requests and participate with projects/presentations as needed.

Benefits

• Comprehensive training and professional development programs.
• Tuition assistance covering English language learning and various certificate programs.
• Apprenticeship programs that combine hands-on experience with focused learning.
• Smithfield Scholarship Program for employees’ children.
• Education Reimbursement Program for furthering formal education.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees