Senior Analyst, Commercial Finance

Lactalis LHD • Chicago, IL

30d

About The Position

Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose. At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed. As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together. In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®. At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued. Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy. From your PASSION to ours The Senior Analyst, Commercial Finance is responsible for monitoring the full P&L (Industrial/Milk Intake, Logistic and Commercial/Marketing) for Lactalis Heritage Dairy. They will drive and challenge technical performance such as pricing, promotions, marketing expenses and SG&A and provide primary explanations to help the Sales teams to achieve their commitments. This role forecasts data trends for the overall business and makes recommendations to improve profitability. The Senior Analyst, Commercial Finance also develops, produces, and improves weekly, monthly, and yearly reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or another appropriate discipline.?
• 3+ years of experience in Financial reporting, preferably in a consumer foods products company
• Proven capability to manage large sets of data in MS Excel
• Demonstrated strong analytical skills, as well as broad business acumen
• Strong interpersonal skills to influence and sell recommendations internally
• Must be a strong team player who is able to work across multiple functions and disciplines
• Systems knowledge is considered an asset (SAP, Market Track, Tableau/Power BI, etc.)
• Demonstrated solid PowerPoint, communication, and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

• Technical Performance Management Challenge and monitor the P&L indicators, which include: Volumes and mix, Prices, trade and promotions, Pricing power analysis, marketing budget and overheads
• Challenge and influence pricing strategies by making recommendations through simulations to improve profitability
• Produce and report how performance is tracking against the budget, prior year and forecast
• Ensure accurate monthly marketing, trade, and promotion expenses are in compliance with the annual plan
• Prepare a monthly financial report to be presented to CEO, CFO and VP of the commercial business unit
• Perform accurate financial forecasting (for full commercial P&L) and work closely with the Sales team
• Forecast volumes and provide insight to the S&OP meeting, Challenge prices (NSV), promotion, trade, marketing, and overheads
• Be a primary support and work closely with the Sales team to provide financial analysis and root cause analysis of the result
• Serve as a business partner for Key Account and Sales teams on all P&L related questions
• Identify and communicate risk and opportunities for the full commercial P&L (volumes and mix, prices, trade and promotions, marketing budget and expenses)
• Ensure system data follows required processes and are uploaded in a timely manner
• Budget construction Support Sales team on budget construction and serve as a voice of Finance in the decision making during budget meetings
• Lead, challenge, and monitor the commercial business indicators: volumes and mix, prices (NSV), pricing power analysis, trade and promotion, expenses (marketing, overheads)
• Consolidate budget of the full P&L
• Ad Hoc analysis Support the Sales team on P&L activities and provide ad hoc analysis: price, margin, and profitability simulation to Sales teams to help the decision making on the commercial business
• Gather data for new projects and perform financial studies for new launches

Benefits

• At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options.
• We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one.
• We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

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