Financial Analyst I, Trade Spend

McCormick • Hunt Valley, MD

53d • $63,250 - $110,680 • Hybrid

About The Position

You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments - and we're only getting started. At McCormick, we're always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team. McCormick employees - all 14,000 of us across the world - are what makes this company a great place to work. We are looking to hire a Financial Analyst I, Trade Spend immediately in a Hybrid (50/50) capacity at our Global Headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The Financial Analyst is an integral member of the Commercial Finance team and will be the subject matter expert for critical pricing activities including the execution of updating and maintaining multiple customer price pages, implementing pricing changes in SAP and researching invoice pricing discrepancies while working with the cross functional teams on resolutions. The Financial Analyst will also support trade spend reporting and analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelors - Accounting, Finance or Business Management
• 1-2 years of experience in a financial analyst role
• Excellent interpersonal (written and verbal) communications skills with a demonstrated ability to work across functions & cultures and interact with all levels of the organization required
• Strong proficiency in MS Excel required
• Intermediate proficiency in MS Word and MS PowerPoint required
• The successful candidate will be very detail oriented, have strong interpersonal and teamwork abilities, demonstrated grammatical and organizational skills and must be a self-starter, who is able to work independently
• Understands available reporting, drill down capabilities, and able to organize data in a way that adds value to analysis
• Demonstrated ability to proactively solve problems, multi-task, deliver accurate financial deliverables, and work in cross functional teams

Responsibilities

• Point person responsible for executing and maintaining customer price pages for any changes including but not limited to; pricing actions, new item launches or discontinuations, changes in customer deals, or any other ad hoc price page updates
• Publish customer price pages in an accurate and timely way to enable sales to communicate with the customer
• Maintain and update customer specific pricing in SAP
• Determine root cause of pricing discrepancies and drive resolution and future corrective actions
• Provide support to Financial Analyst II on Trade Spend reporting, forecasting and analysis
• Process Improvement - Continually standardizing and optimizing processes/reporting
• Participate actively in projects and ad-hoc analyses

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices
• Wellbeing programs including Physical, Mental and Financial wellness
• Tuition assistance
• Comprehensive health plans covering medical, vision, dental, life and disability benefits
• Family-friendly benefits such as paid parental leave, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Program, and caregiver support
• Retirement and investment programs including 401(k) and profit-sharing plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Food Manufacturing