Financial Analyst 2

Description

Position Summary:

The Financial Analyst II acts as an important support arm to the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) leadership with day-to-day activities, special projects, and ad-hoc reporting to deliver proactive insight, strategies, financial models, analysis, and metrics to drive and optimize current and future business decisions. This position has accountability for producing accurate financial analyses and reports for the organization. This role is essential to support organizational goals and model best practices, guided by our values of Excellence, Accountability, Transparency and Stewardship (EATS). 

Requirements

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

· Updates daily, weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc reporting files to ensure decision makers have timely information available.

· Develops, tracks and reports on key performance indicators across the portfolio of business.

· Provides analytical support and financial analysis for sales, operations, farming and overhead business departments.

· Draws conclusions, makes recommendations, and develops presentations for key constituents.

· Works closely with operational teams to validate assumptions and quantify potential operational impacts.

· Optimizes, manipulates, and maintains existing reports, databases, and queries.

· Updates and maintains analysis for customer, product, and business performance reports.

· Leverages multiple IT platforms and analytical tools to report and analyze information.

· Proactively looks for and identifies opportunities for implementable value creation.

· Identifies cost savings opportunities across the business.

· Performs other duties as assigned.

Essential Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty satisfactorily, including all important aspects of the job- whether performed daily, weekly, monthly, or annually; and any duty that occurs at irregular intervals. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

· Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles, such as GAAP and accrual-based accounting.

· Knowledge of Business Intelligence tool and enterprise resource planning systems.

· Proven analytical, financial modeling and strategic thinking skills.

· Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to communicate both orally and written.

· Skilled with commonsense approach to problem solving and exercising sound judgement to make decisions based on accurate and timely analyses.

· Ability to work in a fast-paced, growing, and ever-changing environment.

· Ability to holistically balance multiple projects and manage deadlines accordingly.

· Willingness to work as a team member.

· Self-motivation, perpetual student mentality and good work ethic.

· Ability to work independently without close supervision.

· High level of integrity and accountability with a strong sense of urgency.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or equivalent experience.

· 2+ years of experience in public accounting, FP &A functions, budgeting, farming operations or related business environment, preferable with food/agriculture company.

· Intermediate level computer skills with Microsoft Office Suite.

· Advanced Microsoft Excel skills preferred.

· Intermediate business intelligence and basic knowledge of ERP software preferred.

Essential Physical Requirements and Work Environment:

Please refer to attached addendum for specifications describing physical demands that are representative of what must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job, as well as the work environment characteristics the job holder will encounter. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.