Senior Finance Analyst - Snacks

Senior Financial Analyst, Finance, Snacks Sales & Trade

OVERVIEW

This Senior Financial Analyst role provides a unique combination of experiences and opportunity to influence for impact, because it has direct connectivity to both the Senior Finance Manager, Trade & Pricing as well as the Operating Unit Trade Director.

The Senior Financial Analyst, Sales & Trade P&A role in the Snacks Operating Unit provides an exciting opportunity to partner with Sales (Trade Director, PSMs) to develop commercial acumen and an understanding of pricing & merchandising while also partnering with Finance (FGMs, OU P&A) to understand the impact of those commercial strategies on the P&L. This role is directly accountable for managing the budget for an OU with over $1B in trade spending. As with other P&A roles, you will develop a strong foundational knowledge of GMI planning processes, systems, data, and capabilities (AOC, modeling, forecasting) that will serve you well as you progress through your career in GMI Finance. As OU needs dictate (and performance and capacity allow), this role will also be pulled into Trade finance business unit and customer support to provide additional exposure to commercial finance.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Serve independently as the financial leader for all Snacks Sales & Trade P&A processes, responsible for financial results, forecasting, and related processes:
• Serve as the subject matter expert for all things related to the Trade budget, for Finance partners as well as cross-functional business partners in Sales, SRM, and Marketing
• Lead accurate and balanced financial annual plan and monthly forecast processes
• Lead annual Sales Release and quarterly true up processes
• Drive alignment between Operating Unit, Business Unit, and Field Sales teams regarding trade spending outlook
• Partner with Operating Unit and Central P&A teams to coordinate key P&A processes
• Support best practice sharing and process optimization across Sales & Trade Finance
• Partner with Operating Unit brand teams to build foundational Strategic Revenue Management (SRM) and Trade knowledge
• Provide ad hoc sales & trade finance support (trade costings, customer finance support) as needed and as performance and capacity allow
• Key relationships include Sales (Operating Unit Trade Director, Sales Execution Manager, Senior Customer Managers, Product Sales Managers), as well as OU Finance Team as well as central NAR Sales Capabilities and Sales Finance teams

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of work/internship experience
• B.S. in finance, accounting, economics, or related field
• Partnership for Impact to be curious and challenge the status quo with candor to maximize investment ROI and improve processes
• Situational agility to influence without formal authority by driving transparent, trusting relationships with customer teams
• Commercial Finance Acumen and analytical agility to assess and provide perspective on trade spend management as well as adapt Plan in-year with incomplete data or conflicting information
• Data Based Decision Making and ability to synthesize multiple data sources and navigate complexity
• Optional ability to travel to region office / customer for Sales team engagements (<5%)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Finance experience within Trade, Sales, or an Operating Unit
• Knowledge of Trade Planner and AFO
• Planning & Analysis experience
• Experience influencing across and up/down the organization

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.