Finance Planning and Reporting Senior Analyst

Job Purpose and Impact

The Finance Planning and Reporting Senior Analyst will provide a consistent financial planning and analysis experience that integrates planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting and will create a deep understanding of business performance to enhance decision making by the business group or function. In this role, you will partner with the global Cargill Animal Nutrition and Cargill Aqua Nutrition R&D, Marketing and Strategic Technology Leaders. You will support their key initiatives in building business cases for future investments and provide regular finance support for reviewing performance and forecasting their respective P&L’s. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the continuous process improvements in collaboration with key stakeholders both in the business and our cross functional teams.

Key Accountabilities

• Create and communicate timely, accurate and consistent financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting for the assigned business group or function and identify business insights from the financial data to enhance decision making.

• Partner with peers in cross functional financial teams and global functional leaders to achieve the finance strategy and strategic goals of the business or function and implement effective and efficient tools, models and reporting to deliver insights and ensure accuracy and transparency.

• Provide input and identify opportunities to improve process, data and technology to drive standardization and simplification of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.

• Identify key financial risks and communicate recommendations to global stakeholders both within finance and business partners.

• Collaborate in the execution of the monetization of integrated business planning, forecasting and operating review for the business group or function.

• Develop ad hoc analysis and complex modelling including cost of services and associated trends, both financial and nonfinancial, to enable decision making and evaluate key performance indicators.

• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Minimum of four years of related work experience

• Experience performing variance analysis

• Advanced data analytical skills using spreadsheets and business intelligence tools (i.e. PowerBI or Tableau)

• Demonstrated ability to understanding of complex topics and effectively communicate those complexities to non-finance leaders

Preferred Qualifications

• Confirmed experience leveraging financial and business systems to monitor business activities and aid in decision making

• Experience working with P&L’s across a global business

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