Finance Senior Analyst, Food NA

Cargill • Butler, WI

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Finance Senior Analyst, Food NA performs complex managerial accounting activities and partners with business leaders to support financial decision making at our ground beef plant in Butler, WI. With minimal supervision, this job analyzes and reviews financial data and makes recommendations on budgeting and forecasting processes. This job also leads the continuous improvement of management information systems, reporting standards and business metric development to drive data informed business decisions.

Requirements

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Data analytical skills for using spreadsheets or business intelligence tools.
• Experience leveraging financial and business systems to monitor business activities and aid in decision making.

Nice To Haves

• Experience using accounting technology applications.
• Professional experience working in a plant environment.
• SAP experience

Responsibilities

• Works with business to analyze and interpret business performance against plans, budgets, forecasts and other key performance indicators.
• Reviews and communicates insights based on financial analysis and research to support strategic business decision making.
• Reviews cost analysis for specific products, projects, or plants to better understand cost drivers and opportunities for improvement.
• Maintains knowledge of industry trends and accounting standards, ensuring compliance and driving process innovation and continuous improvement within the department to increase effectiveness and efficiency.
• Cultivates and maintains close partnerships with business leaders and business teams to understand local and regional business needs and collaborates with other finance leads to deliver on overall finance function expectations.
• Reviews various complex reports including risk and mitigation controls reports, custom transaction code reports and sensitive role reports for gap assessment and cleanup activities to identify and address any gaps, vulnerabilities, or inefficiencies in an organization's control environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior