Financial Analyst- Sales - Flora Food Group
Hackensack, NJ
About the Job
About Flora Food Group
We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.
Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.
Hybrid- 2X per week
bout the Role!
As the Financial Analyst - Sales Finance for the US Market you will support the delivery of financial and analytical insights in the area of Trade Spend and Gross to Net Sales. In this role, you will prepare reporting to analyze customer performance, trade spend and retailer performance. This role is critical to the month end close with the responsibility of preparing journal entries, analyzing P&L expense accounts within Gross to Net Sales and assessing the balance sheet position. In addition, you will play a lead role in building the financial plans and forecasts as well as the annual external financial audit.
Business Performance
- Monthly/Quarterly/Annual forecasting, budgeting and tracking of target plans for Gross to Net Sales.
- Monthly financial analysis on actual results by comparing to forecast/budgets to drive insights that will improve business performance.
- Prepare flexible financial models with clean and insightful outputs.
- Develop reports that help our business counterparts measure performance and help to explain any variances to expectations.
- Develop and implement process improvements to manage, analyze and report on Sales and Trade Spending with cross functional teams.
- Ad-hoc support through data analysis for various financial business scenarios and core business processes.
Controllers
- Prepare monthly financial control activities including the preparation of journal entries, reconciliations and variance analysis and review of the general ledger.
- Support monthly closing process to ensure accurate and transparent representation of financial results.
- Deliver ad-hoc support to help resolve issues/disputes between internal functions or customers and shared services team.
- Play a leadership role in the annual financial audit and interface directly with the external audit team.
About you!
- Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting. Professional accounting designation or in pursuit of a professional accounting qualification as plus.
- 2-3+ years of financial or accounting experience with strong analytical bias, excellent understanding of financial metrics and financial processes and a sense of curiosity.
- Must have the ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines; possession of strong organizational and time-management skills, and the ability to understand and establish appropriate priorities.
- Very strong work ethic, positive team-player attitude, great communication skills and excellent attention to detail.
- Strong business partner and influencing skills to drive business results and process improvements.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
- Solid understanding of ERP and Reporting Systems, with SAP knowledge an asset.
We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.
Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.
No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.
