Senior Finance Analyst

E. & J. Gallo Winery•Modesto, CA

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will delve into financial and business-related analyses to assess the impact of various projects, systems, and transactions on our company's bottom line. As a key player in our finance team, you will conduct thorough analyses and research in areas such as financial performance, expense management, rate of return, depreciation, working capital, and investment. Your insights will be crucial in preparing forecasts, analyzing trends across manufacturing, sales, finance, and other business domains. You will create detailed work plans, conduct in-depth analysis, identify options, and prepare insightful reports that will influence management decisions and drive strategic changes in assigned projects. Additionally, you will play a pivotal role in the formulation of department budgets, review actual expenses versus budget projections, and issue monthly variance statements. Your expertise will also contribute to the development of department procedures and performance measures, as well as conducting special financial and business-related studies as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree plus 4 years of finance, accounting, audit, economics, statistics or mathematics experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility, OR Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years of Gallo experience to include business analytics and financial modeling work reflecting increasing levels of responsibility, OR Bachelor's degree plus 3 years of Management Consulting experience.
Experience with MS Excel at an intermediate level.
Required to travel up to 5% of the time for onboarding, training, meetings, and events.
Required to be 18 years or older.

Nice To Haves

MBA degree plus 4 years of finance, accounting, military, operations, supply chain, sales, consulting or wine industry experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor’s degree plus 6 years of Finance or Accounting experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
Experience with MS Access at an intermediate level.
Experience with SAP.
Experience with Outlook Soft.
Experience with MS Word and MS PowerPoint.
Experience reading, analyzing and interpreting common scientific and technical journals, financial reports and legal documents.
Experience responding to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies or members of the business community.
Experience effectively presenting information to top management, public groups and boards of directors.
Experience applying mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory and factor analysis.
Experience defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts and drawing valid conclusions.
Experience interpreting an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and dealing with several abstract and concrete variables.
Experience completing assignments that broad in nature, usually requiring originality and ingenuity.
Has appreciable latitude for unreviewed action or decision.
Broad knowledge of principles, practices and procedures of this particular field of specialization.

Responsibilities

Conduct thorough analyses and research in areas such as financial performance, expense management, rate of return, depreciation, working capital, and investment.
Prepare forecasts and analyze trends across manufacturing, sales, finance, and other business domains.
Create detailed work plans, conduct in-depth analysis, identify options, and prepare insightful reports.
Formulate department budgets.
Review actual expenses versus budget projections and issue monthly variance statements.
Contribute to the development of department procedures and performance measures.
Conduct special financial and business-related studies as needed.