Senior Financial Analyst

Post Consumer Brands•Lakeville, MN

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook for the latest news. At Post Consumer Brands, we've spent generations showing up for families, starting with breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Our cereals have become a trusted part of daily routines, helping spark conversations, fuel busy mornings, and create everyday moments that bring families closer together, including their furry four-legged family members, who have recently become a part of our story. As families have evolved, so have we. What began at the breakfast table has expanded into snacks, peanut butter, and pet food, because caring for a family means feeding every part of it. With the addition of several iconic pet brands, we've extended our purpose: to make high-quality, accessible food for everyone under the same roof. This phase is still new, and that's what makes it exciting. As we continue to grow across grocery and pet, we're looking for people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and the kind of impact that stretches from store shelves to kitchen tables, and food bowls, across the country. Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America. Post Consumer Brands is hiring a Senior Financial Analyst to support strategic decision-making through financial analysis, forecasting, and reporting. This position partners with business leaders to provide insights that drive performance and ensure financial targets are met.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics preferred.
Experience: 5+ years' financial or relevant analytical experience with increasing responsibility, preferably in the consumer-packaged goods industry.
Skills: Advanced Proficiency in Excel and financial modeling.
Experience with ERP systems and business intelligence tools (e.g., Oracle JD Edwards, IBM TM1, Tableau).
Strong financial and analytical skills.
Ability to deal with ambiguity and change in a dynamic business environment.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

Support the Annual planning/monthly forecast/quarterly forecast process by managing the overall timelines and defined specific activities.
Working cross functionally to align on planning/forecasting assumptions.
Create EBITDA bridges to identify major drivers of the plan.
Identify risks and opportunities in the plan and identify solves if there are gaps to the planned target.
Monitor and analyze financial results, identify/understand trends, understand volume, net selling price/trade rate, product and customer mix, and cost of goods sold drivers.
Communicate and make recommendations to management team based on operating results on a monthly basis.
Keep apprised of daily volume/rate/mix trends as the month continues to elapse.
Continue to drive for more predictability within our budgeting and forecasting models.
Support the annual long range planning process through modeling different scenarios.
Develop and maintain standardized process documentation.
Regularly facilitate and coordinate with cross functional activities to support optimization.
Ad hoc reporting and analysis.