Contract FP&A Manager

Conexus Food Solutions•Chicago, IL

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Conexus Food Solutions is a leader in the Asian food service sector, headquartered in Chicago, near Midway Airport. We are a fully vertically integrated business, specializing in supplying Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and other ethnic cuisines. Our services encompass sourcing, processing, logistics, import & export, cold storage, and more. We take pride in our values of growth, service, collaboration, integrity, and excellence, which define our approach to business. We're seeking an individual experienced in spearheading the budgeting process for our corporate office, distribution centers, and production sites. This is a managerial role, overseeing one direct report. As this is a newly created position, the individual in this role will have the exciting opportunity to shape and build the FP&A function at Conexus. This position reports directly to our Global Chief Financial Officer and have regular interactions with the management team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting, or related data analytics field.
5+ years of financial planning and business analysis experience required.
Experience leading budgets and forecasted financial performance.
Strong knowledge of planning and performance processes, including annual budget, monthly forecast, and periodic business reviews.
Data modeling and analytical skills including utilization of BI tools for dashboard creation.
Ability to follow through on issues, make informed decisions that comply with policies and procedures, complete tasks and problem-solve.
Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with all levels within the organization.
Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, confidentiality.

Nice To Haves

Cost accounting background is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Deliver consolidated management reporting, financial analysis, and business insights to the leadership team.
Facilitate the end-to-end business and financial planning process.
Drive deeper insights and support into financial, operational, and workforce related performance and decisions.
Implement and drive core financial processes including Annual Operating Plans, Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews.
Identify and quantify financial/operational risks and opportunities to the business.
Drive ad-hoc business projects.
Lead consolidated management reporting and analysis activities, including preparing, analyzing, interpreting data and trends.
Manage planning process and build financial models and analytical toolsets for budgeting, forecasting, and driving performance.
Develop and monitor key business performance metrics across the consolidated and individual business lines or entities.
Provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management based on analysis for purposes of scenario analysis, business case analysis, return on investment, and regulatory/audit engagements.
Proactively identify opportunities to improve existing processes, strengthen internal controls and optimize data management.
Coach operational leaders on systems and tools to develop a data driven decision making methodology.
Assist in optimizing cost centers, GL accounts, and channel hierarchies to best facilitate analysis and reporting, along with Controllership and IT Applications.
Coordinate internal audit across all operating companies with accounting and operations.
Maintain BI data analytics to support pricing strategy, demand planning and forecasting.