Finance Analyst, NA Foodservice
About The Position
The Financial Analyst is a key player within the North American Sales Finance team, supporting and partnering with the Sales and related teams to profitably grow the businesses. The primary responsibility is to bring strong financial and general business acumen and add value with a customer-centric focus. The role includes: Thoroughly understanding key customers’ operations and how it impacts McCain’s current profitability and future growth opportunities. Analyze customer profitability, prepare margin analysis reports, and develop and present information in a format applicable to the target audience. Comprehensive Trade Spend management for customers (accruals, analysis and reporting). Contributing to enhancing internal systems and processes and enable faster and higher-quality decision-making for Senior Leaders. Providing various ad-hoc data extraction, consolidation, re-organization and analysis to help the business understand trends, and assess customers and products from a ‘Volume-Price-Mix’ context. ‘Stakeholder’ and ‘Ownership’ mentality is a must; you must feel that you are a major stakeholder in the business and ‘own’ the numbers (alongside your counterparts). High-quality work is expected; you should be proud of the work that you do for the business as you’ll be a key player in the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required (Business, Finance or Accounting)
- Understanding of accounting and finance practices
- Strong results- and action-oriented mindset
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities with a sense of urgency
- Elevated collaboration skills
- Agility in being able to work with different teams, particularly Sales and Marketing, in addition to Finance counterparts and other functions as required
Nice To Haves
- Enjoys working hard and accepts challenges.
- Able to act and reach with speed even if limited information is available.
- Not afraid to take charge of a situation when challenges arise.
- Demonstrates curiosity and innovative approach to problem solving.
Responsibilities
- Act as financial business partner to Sales and related teams supporting Customer and Product profitability via Sales, Trade and Cost-of-Goods-Sold analytics
- Drive research and analysis of key product drivers, trends and performance indicators
- Support financial information reporting to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for business-critical decision making
- Build strong working relationships with business partners across the organization
- Work on other assigned priorities and contribute to organizational development of the North American finance organization in support of our North American businesses
Benefits
- health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug)
- retirement savings benefits
- leave support including medical, family and bereavement
- vacation and holidays
- company-supported volunteering time
- mental health resources
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
