Sales & Trade Finance Analyst

Nissin Foods•Gardena, CA

42d

About The Position

The Sales & Trade Finance Analyst plays a significant role in co-piloting of the US sales organization, in both delivery of financial results, but also overall improvement within spending efficiencies as well. This role is expected to help the VP of Finance co-pilot both the internal and external sales teams in meeting and exceeding financial objectives. Further, this role plays an important part of improving the trade spend effectiveness and overall improvement of the trade spend process, controls and reporting KPIs.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting from four-year college or university.
2+ years of finance or accounting experience in a CPG manufacturing environment with knowledge of trade.
Basic understanding of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles including GAAP and IFRS.
Ability to understand and manage multiple customer trade strategies.
Comfortable with multiple automated financial and accounting reporting systems, Excel, Power point and database, complex ERP, preferably Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Demonstrates expertise in using diplomacy to foster cross-functional alignment, facilitating effective collaboration between finance and other business units.
Knowledge of process improvement, pricing strategies, forecasting, best practices to support business objectives.
Ability to analyze financial data, prepare financial reports and statements, and forecast projections.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with Trade Promotion Management (TPM) systems.

Responsibilities

Act as financial co-pilot to the US sales and corporate team, providing insights and financial analytics to drive growth for the function.
Act as single point of contact on sales and corporate related actual, budget & forecast, and KPIs.
Develop business models that support the assessment and underlying valuation of potential opportunities.
Proactively identify and analysis of business risks and opportunities, including recommendations for future actions.
Partner with Sales, Marketing and Category Management groups to support and roll out ROI models and best practices to evaluate the effectiveness of promotional activities to drive growth.
Provide in-depth financial analysis related to key strategic initiatives as well as tactical initiatives as determined by the external market (benchmarking).
The role should expand the current boundaries of analytical thinking of the sales and corporate managers and continually challenge financial assumptions and business modeling to further enable growth.
Financial Shaping and Decision making
Financial Analysis and Insights
Financial processes
Sales & Marketing strategy development
Corporate expense control and analysis