Senior Analyst, Finance
J.M. Smucker Co•Orrville, OH
•Hybrid
About The Position
Become a trusted finance partner, using data, analytics, and business insight to help drive decisions across areas like Marketing, Innovation, and Brands. You'll lead financial planning, forecasting, and strategic analysis while working closely with cross-functional teams to influence business outcomes and identify growth opportunities. What makes this role especially exciting is the chance to build a broad understanding of the business, gain exposure to senior leaders, and develop skills that can open doors to a variety of future finance career paths.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or related field
- 3+ years of experience working in a corporate finance, accounting, audit, or similar function
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Ability to develop relationships, communicate effectively, and influence others
- Proficient in Microsoft Office tools
Nice To Haves
- Experience with financial systems such as Hyperion, Spotfire, and Oracle
- MBA, CPA, CMA, or other advanced degree or certification
Responsibilities
- Prepare financial analysis and projections for various initiatives
- Perform pre/post initiative analysis and recommendations
- Provide fact-based decision support to business partners and leadership team(s)
- Present financial data at monthly business reviews and financial reviews as needed
- Partner with cross functional teams to ensure complete and accurate understanding of financial results and outlook; identify improvement opportunities and solutions as appropriate
- Lead analysis and processes to support the development of the Annual Financial Plan and Long-Range Plan
- Support functional and cross-functional projects as needed. This may include process improvement, standardization, simplification, and technological advancement
- Analyze business scenarios and communicate implications/outlook
- Maintain focus on business trends to deliver short and long-term objectives for a Strategic Business Area or the Company.
- Develop understanding of packaged food categories, retailers, consumers, and competition to drive decisions rooted in strategy
- Provide cross-functional business support to constituents (e.g., Marketing, Innovation, Brand Commercialization, etc.) by sharing financial perspective to inform business decisions
- Understand corporate, brand, customer and production planning/forecasting cycles interact to create financial outlook
- Ensure accurate and timely completion of month-end actuals and forecast
- Communicate actual and anticipated results through insightful dialogue and reporting
Benefits
- meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
