Senior Analyst, Sales Finance

Lactalis Heritage Dairy

$90K — $105K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field required
  • 3+ years of experience in FP&A, Sales Finance, or related areas
  • Strong analytical skills with an emphasis on finance and sales
  • Proficiency working with complex data sets
  • Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and reporting
  • Excellent communication skills with a focus on leadership
  • High emotional intelligence and problem-solving abilities

Responsibilities

  • Partner and collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Drive automation of reporting processes using Power BI
  • Facilitate monthly financial commentary collection from Sales
  • Evaluate financial implications of funding requests and promotions
  • Support joint business plan investment proposals
  • Create customer-level profitability analyses
  • Assist with annual planning and monthly P&L forecasts
  • Develop financial controls for trade spend accuracy

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program with various benefits
  • Generous retirement plan contributions
  • Paid Time Off from day one
  • Significant support for insurance costs
  • Opportunities for professional training and development
  • Education Reimbursement program
Full Job Description
As a Finance Senior Analyst, you'll share your world-class analytical skills and passion for collaboration by partnering with our Sales Leaders to move key business strategies forward in the US Retail Channels. You will provide visibility into financial opportunities, ensure integrity of our financial statements, and measure financial profitability for our in-market investment and execution. While you are at it you will be building your network and expertise in a thriving environment of professional development and be an integral part of the US Retail Sales Team. Together we will build a stronger future for our company and your career. From your STORY to ours
  • Partner & collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Sales Ops & Planning team, Category Leadership team, and Shopper Marketing team
  • Drive automation of existing reporting in Power BI
  • Facilitate the collection of routine commentary from the Sales organization monthly
  • Evaluate financial viability/profitability, ramifications, and effectiveness of incremental funding requests, new product launches, pricing actions, promotional execution, optimization opportunities, customer specific analysis, and other ad hoc reporting and analysis
  • Support preparation of joint business plan investment proposals or strategic investments and subsequent customer negotiations
  • Create customer & SKU level P&Ls to ensure ongoing profitability of SKUs within customers
  • Support Head of Sales Finance with annual planning and monthly P&L forecasting and reporting
  • Develop and maintain financial controls to ensure visibility to and accuracy of the monthly trade spend forecast in relation to budget targets and the actual spend
Requirements From your EXPERTISE to ours
  • Bachelor Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required
  • 3+ years of experience in FP&A, Sales Finance, Revenue Management, Consulting, or Investment Banking; consumer package goods industry experience preferred
  • Strong finance, sales, category planning and/or analytical background
  • Comfortable working with large sets of data and dealing with ambiguity/murky data
  • Experience with budgeting/planning/forecasting, analysis, and reporting
  • Ability to effectively summarize complex information
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills
  • High emotional intelligence
  • Critical thinker and problem solver who can turn insights into actions & results
  • Ability to drive continuous process improvement
  • Proven ability to meet deadlines in a dynamic environment
  • Someone who is independent, self-motivated, self-managing, proactive, and responsive that can handle multiple priorities
  • Proficiency in all Microsoft Office products with advanced skills in Excel
  • Knowledge of the main business intelligence tools and trade management systems (ex. Business Warehouse [BW], Circana/IRI, Power BI, SAP, Vistex), preferred
At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career. Salary Description $90,000 - $105,000

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