Sr FPA Analyst - Hybrid

Senior Analyst Financial Planning & Analysis Hybrid

Location: Dallas TX

Reporting Relationship: Vice President of Integration & Improvement

FLSA: Salary Exempt

Company Information

Our Client is one of the nation s largest and most progressive commodity cooperatives with 116 farms 20 wholly owned subsidiaries nine processing plants and seven joint ventures with other major CPG manufacturers including CocaCola. Headquartered in north Dallas the company has earned a reputation for innovation in several areas including animal health environmental stewardship and overall business practices including new product development. With over 1100 employees our client has generated $2 billion in annual revenue and produced over 10 billion pounds of product last year.

Position Overview

The Senior Analyst will play a crucial role in providing granular data and analysis on business issues planning budgeting and forecasting for the business for management s use in strategic and tactical decision making. Analyzes operational and financial data and KPIs for due diligence and continuous improvement opportunities. The ideal candidate will possess a strong financial acumen exceptional organizational and analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex financial concepts to various stakeholders. This individual will work on a variety of projects with multiple stakeholders build and maintain financial models completing complex analysis involving multiple data sources assessing opportunities for process improvement developing plans for capturing and utilizing supplemental data and supporting the implementation of strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate possesses knowledge of the dairy industry development and use of key performance indicators (KPIs) and demonstrates an ability to identify underlying causes and correlations. The candidate must exhibit exceptional analytic problemsolving abilities strong attention to detail as well as strong communication and presentation skills that enable them to lead discussions to drive databased decisions to be made.

Primary Responsibilities

• Engage business and operations partners to create detailed financial plans and influence investment decisions.
  
• Analyze performance identify areas of risk and opportunity and make recommendations to finance and business leadership for improvements.
  
• Support the financial planning process at the department level inclusive of budgets reforecasts capital planning and longterm plans. Helps to define and load data into models.
  
• Consolidate smaller forecasts and models into the overall plan and reports.
  
• Conduct analysis of business units portfolio segments geographic territories business lines and acquisitions.
  
• Gather data to track and review performance of strategic initiatives (the investment portfolio).
  
• Learn prepare and maintain financial models and tools; learn and master the budget forecast model making enhancements as necessary.
  
• Develop relevant reporting including data preparation report creation and quality control; strive to deliver insight consistent data and effective visualizations.
  
• Provide oversight to business KPIs; report trends variances and issues; take appropriate action including proactively notifying business or financial partners/superiors.
  
• Provide data and analyses to support periodic (monthly quarterly yearend) financial and operational performance reviews with the business and finance teams and the board of directors.
  
• Build databases and prepare reports for senior management. Perform other ad hoc analyses.
  
• Assist in building business cases and perform due diligence on potential opportunities deals partnerships etc.
  
• Apply financial and economic concepts including financial modeling economic analysis cash flow (DCF) profitability earnings balance sheet taxes financial ratios alignment to KPIs ROIC/NPV/IRR customer lifetime value cost of capital benchmarks market analysis and strategic analysis.
  
• Manage cash flow forecast models variance analysis and other financial performance tools.
  
• Leverage analytical tools and methodologies including visualizations to present findings.
  
• Collaborate on processes and projects while representing the goals of the business.
  
• Demonstrate finance business and industry expertise; learn the strategy drivers metrics and data elements of the company.
  
• Establish credibility through respectful thoughtful interactions attention to detail professional integrity and excellent financial insight.
  
• Must successfully complete a background and reference check.
  
• Must have proof of legal authorization to work in USA.
  
  

Competencies & Characteristics Required

• Ability to thoughtfully exercise judgment to improve processes and advance the reporting outputs for the team.
  
• Strong financial analytical and detailoriented aptitude applying advanced knowledge of business protocols and metrics; a high degree of accuracy is required.
  
• Ability to assess metric outcomes on a relative basis and create sound recommendations based on accurate data evaluation.
  
• Be skilled in communicating and presenting complex trends and analysis both verbally and in writing to all levels of the organization.
  
• Ability to manage time effectively set priorities and meet deadlines.
  
• Ability to standardize business processes and provide support to a variety of critical initiatives and projects.
  
• Highly proficient in Microsoft office specifically Excel s analytical capability PowerPoint Outlook Tableau Power BI.
  
• Apply diverse experience across functions and basic understanding of continuous improvement tools and processes to drive business results.
  
• Utilize experience with SAP / ERP systems to access and analyze data.
  
  

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor s degree in Business Finance Accounting required.
  
• 7 years experience in a financial planning and analytical role is required
  
• Thorough understanding of SQL methods to query various size data sets.
  
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI and Tableau.
  
• Knowledge of statistical tools such as R or Data Analysis in Excel.