Sr. FP&A Analyst, Corporate (Hybrid)

Ardent Mills•Denver, CO

2d•$107,700 - $129,400•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate FP&A, supports enterprise-wide financial planning, reporting, analysis, and decision support. The role partners with Finance and cross-functional stakeholders to develop forecasts, analyze performance, identify risks and opportunities, and translate financial data into clear business insights. The analyst builds and maintains financial models, prepares management reporting, and supports business cases and strategic initiatives. Through strong analytical capability, attention to detail, and effective collaboration, the role helps improve financial performance and enables informed decision-making. The role supports financial performance management for assigned businesses and functions, develops financial models and business cases, evaluates strategic and operational opportunities, and translates enterprise strategy into functional financial targets and measurable outcomes. It supports annual planning, budgeting, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning, and prepares management reporting and decision-support materials. The position collaborates across Finance and other functions to improve reporting, forecasting, data quality, controls, and analytical processes. This is a hybrid role based in Denver, Colorado. The successful candidate is expected to work in person from the assigned office location two days per week, Tuesday and Wednesday, except when traveling for business. Approximately 10% travel is required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
6+ years of relevant experience.
Experience in financial analysis, including financial modeling, what-if scenarios, ad-hoc analysis, and process improvement.
Experience in financial planning and analysis, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, or related corporate finance activities.
Experience analyzing business performance, explaining financial variances, and translating quantitative findings into actionable insights for business stakeholders.
Strong understanding of financial statements, business drivers, and the financial implications of commercial and operational decisions.
Strong capabilities in financial analysis, modeling, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and variance analysis.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and ability to work effectively with financial systems, planning platforms, business intelligence tools, and complex data sets.
Ability to evaluate assumptions, identify trends and root causes, assess risks and opportunities, and develop practical recommendations.
Ability to build credibility with stakeholders, ask effective questions, constructively challenge assumptions, and support decisions with objective financial analysis.
Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex financial concepts clearly to financial and non-financial audiences.
Demonstrated attention to detail and commitment to data integrity, sound financial controls, and high-quality analytical outputs.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and deliver accurate work in a dynamic, matrixed environment.
Ability to work effectively across functions and contribute to improvements in reporting, planning, data, tools, and Finance processes.
Ability to quickly develop knowledge of the business, industry, systems, and evolving FP&A practices.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with financial systems, enterprise planning tools, business intelligence platforms, and large or complex data sets.
Experience in a manufacturing, food, agriculture, consumer products, or similarly complex operating environment.

Responsibilities

Support financial performance management for assigned businesses and functions by analyzing results, identifying risks and opportunities, and translating findings into actionable recommendations.
Build effective partnerships with business leaders and cross-functional teams to understand business drivers, validate assumptions, and support informed decisions.
Improve financial acumen across partner teams by connecting operational and commercial activities to financial outcomes and clearly communicating key performance drivers.
Facilitate alignment across corporate functions, surface conflicting assumptions, and influence action without formal authority.
Support stakeholder readiness, adoption, and sustained use of new tools, processes, and reporting standards.
Develop financial models and business cases to evaluate strategic initiatives, customer and product opportunities, pricing decisions, capital investments, and growth or productivity opportunities.
Perform scenario, sensitivity, cost-benefit, and return analyses, and track performance and value realization against approved assumptions and financial commitments.
Translate enterprise strategy into functional financial targets, choices, and measurable outcomes.
Support annual planning, budgeting, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning activities for assigned businesses and functions.
Build and maintain driver-based financial models incorporating volume, pricing, margin, operating expenses, headcount, working capital, and other relevant business assumptions.
Analyze actual and forecast performance against plan, prior forecast, prior year, and strategic targets; identify variances, root causes, trends, and key business drivers.
Partner with stakeholders to quantify actions that address performance gaps or capture opportunities, including financial impact, timing, dependencies, and expected results.
Prepare accurate and timely management reporting, variance analysis, and decision-support materials that communicate performance, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
Drive team standards for developing and monitoring KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards; analyze revenue, margins, costs, profitability, productivity, and other financial and operational performance drivers.
Collaborate across FP&A, Accounting, Operations, Commercial, Supply Chain, and other functions to strengthen reporting, forecasting, data quality, controls, and analytical processes.