Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

CHS, Inc.•Inver Grove Heights, MN

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture. The FP&A Manager, Crop Protection, leads FP&A analyst activities and manages a small team dedicated to supporting the product line’s performance and success. This role oversees core financial planning processes, including annual budgeting, long-range planning, forecasting, financial decision analysis, and business support. The position is responsible for preparing, executing, and communicating financial analysis that translates complex information into clear insights for leaders and stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Requirements

A minimum of 4 years of FP&A experience or other relevant experience including at least 3 years in a supervisory role.
Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics.
Previous experience leading a team and able to articulate previous teams’ successes in the face of challenges.
Ability to solve complex problems using precedent, judgement, and technical experience; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
An in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge of budgeting, long-range planning and forecasting processes as well as various financial statements (Balance Sheet, P&L, Statement of Cash Flow).
Confirmed proficiency in financial analysis, modeling, and forecasting.
Demonstrated learning agility with the ability to understand business problems.
Proficient user of ERP systems and forecasting tools as well as strong experience working with various types of data and information.
Excellent organizational skills, ability to work independently with minimal guidance and handle multiple tasks at once.
Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the organization.
Demonstrated ability to provide informal guidance to new team members and thrive in a team environment.
Possess a continuous improvement mindset with the desire to identify, support, and lead change initiatives.
Knowledge of US GAAP
Previous experience in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and advanced Excel skills, including the ability to manipulate spreadsheets, create pivot tables and summarize data from multiple sources

Nice To Haves

The successful candidate will be ambitious, driven, and have a high degree of professional curiosity
Large ERP experience, such as SAP S4/HANA or MS D365 F&O
BPC, BI and/or Power BI reporting experience
MBA / CPA / CMA

Responsibilities

Lead a small team of analysts responsible for direct support of the product line stakeholders.
Support individual development of team in alignment with CHS seven capabilities.
Provide daily feedback to team to ensure alignment with CHS goals and initiatives.
Establish team priorities, objectives and goals to align with business strategy.
Partner with internal customers to enhance financial forecasting capabilities and increase forecast accuracy.
Partner with FP&A to develop financial dashboards, models and reports for Commercial Leadership and Divisional Leaders.
Leads process improvement projects that focus on budgeting and long-range planning.
Lead the enterprise planning process, including the annual budget, long range plan and quarterly forecasts.
Conduct long-range plan and quarterly forecast analysis to identify historical trends, drivers of growth and track against enterprise and business-specific strategic initiatives.
Facilitate quarterly cost savings and expense management analysis to drive deeper understanding and management of spending across the business.
Uses established guidelines and financial analysis to identify trends and assists commercial teams to uncover solutions to improve margins and/or reduce risk.
Analyze financial data, market trends, and industry benchmarks to gather findings and insights that can be leveraged to improve the BU decision making capabilities; prepare appropriate communications to leaders.
Enable decision making via the delivery of high impact financial analyses to Crop Protection and Corporate leadership.
Assist / Lead ad-hoc projects at the request of supervisor and other leadership.
Provide support to the General Accounting teams as necessary, including inventory, asset, and other analyses.