The Sr. FP&A Analyst, Risk, serves as the primary finance point of contact to the Risk Team, connecting commodity market activity, derivative performance, and business strategy to financial outcomes. The Sr. FP&A Analyst, Risk, owns planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and management reporting to strengthen visibility into commodity revenue and key financial risks. This role translates complex market inputs, derivative contract economics, and operational drivers into clear insights, scenarios, and recommendations that help FP&A leaders anticipate challenges and capture opportunities. This role will build concise executive summaries that connect enterprise results, outlook, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions. Through forward-looking analytics, process improvement, and strong financial stewardship, the Sr. FP&A Analyst, Risk, improves forecast accuracy, reduces surprises, and supports achievement of enterprise financial objectives.
- Serve as the primary FP&A business partner to the Risk Team, driving the functions financial performance, anticipating business trends, and coordinating priorities across FP&A and key stakeholders.
- Lead annual operating plans, budgets, periodic forecasts, and the weekly commodity risk forecasting cadence across multiple entities, covering the commodity revenue P&L, balance sheet, volumes, and working capital.
- Translate enterprise objectives into functional targets, strategies, and tactical plans; model key business drivers and what-if scenarios involving markets, pricing, counterparty exposure, working capital analysis, and risk mitigation.
- Monitor performance against plans, forecasts, and KPIs; identify headwinds, tailwinds, root causes, and value levers, and support leadership to develop actions to meet companys objectives.
- Coordinate and lead commodity revenue month-end close activities, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analysis, and review of material derivative items, while clearly explaining volatility and mark-to-market swings.
- Own derivative analytics and reporting for feed, flour, and grain, including contract lifecycle trends, exceptions, counterparty exposure, and FX exposure imbedded in mark-to-market.
- Ensure P&L integrity and clarity through analytical review of net margin, wheat usage, inbound freight, plant P&Ls, and other significant financial components.
- Provide decision support vis-a-vis derivative contract economics, working capital needs; prepare business cases and assessments and evaluate results against assumptions.
- Develop scorecards, dashboards, benchmarking, board materials, and concise executive commentary that translate derivative, market, and operational drivers into actionable insights for leadership.
- Partner with Finance stakeholders, FP&A leadership, IT, continuous-improvement teams, and subject-matter experts to align data definitions, reporting standards, and planning assumptions; resolve data gaps; support audits; conduct sensitivity analysis and forecast-accuracy measurement; and recommend improvements that strengthen financial reporting outcomes, governance, planning quality, and speed.
- Facilitate alignment across corporate functions, surface conflicting assumptions, and influence action without formal authority.
- Advance forward-looking reporting, workflows, data quality, predictive analytics, data modeling, data stewardship, and standard definitions while identifying automation and AI-enabled opportunities that reduce manual effort and improve the availability and usefulness of decision-ready information.
- Translate enterprise strategy into functional financial targets, choices, and measurable outcomes.
- Responsible to support stakeholder readiness, adoption, and sustained use of new tools, processes, and reporting standards.
- Challenge assumptions constructively and connect risk choices to enterprise profitability, liquidity, working capital, and strategic outcomes.
- Build financial acumen across partner teams by coaching leaders on the financial implications of operational decisions, aligning business assumptions, actions, and expected outcomes, and driving stakeholder readiness, adoption, controls, and sustained use of new risk reporting, analytics, and workflows.
Education
- Bachelors Degree OR equivalent experience.
- CMA or CFA certifications preferred.
Experience
- 6+ years of relevant experience
- Experience in financial analysis, including planning/forecasting, financial analysis involving commodities, financial derivatives, G/L, and mark-to-market accounting.
- Demonstrated experience with financial modeling, what-if scenarios, ad-hoc analysis, and process improvement.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Strong understanding of financial statements, business drivers, and the financial implications of commercial and operational decisions.
- Strong capabilities in financial analysis, modeling, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and variance analysis.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and the ability to work effectively with financial systems, planning platforms, business intelligence tools, and complex data sets.
- Ability to evaluate assumptions, identify trends and root causes, assess risks and opportunities, and develop practical recommendations.
- Ability to build credibility with stakeholders, ask effective questions, constructively challenge assumptions, and support decisions with objective financial analysis.
- Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex financial concepts clearly to financial and non-financial audiences.
- Demonstrated attention to detail and commitment to data integrity, sound financial controls, and high-quality analytical outputs.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and deliver accurate work in a dynamic, matrixed environment.
- Ability to work effectively across functions and contribute to improvements in reporting, planning, data, tools, and Finance processes.
- Ability to quickly develop knowledge of the business, industry, systems, and evolving FP&A practices.
Language
Travel
Less than 5% travel required.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions
Location:
Denver CO
Address:
1875 Lawrence Street, Denver CO, 80202
Additional Locations (if applicable):
Employment Type:
Full time
Additional Information:
Competitive Compensation:
We provide market-driven base pay, based on skills, abilities, and level of experiences. Our salary ranges are broad, and individual salary will be market competitive based on a candidates unique set of skills and level of experience. The starting range for this position is $107,700.00 - $129,400.00, with additional earning potential possible commensurate with experience. Additionally, we believe that our team members are the reason for our success and all team members are incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and individual results achieved. While the specific bonus plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions, the targeted bonus plan and targeted percentage amount for this role is Bonus - MIP, 10% Annual.
Benefits:
At Ardent Mills we offer a wide range of benefits to our team members and their eligible family members. Some of our great benefit programs you may be eligible for include: 3 Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage3 Health and Dependent Savings Accounts 3 Life and Disability Programs 3 Voluntary Benefit Programs 3 Company Sponsored Wellness Programs 3 Retirement Savings with Company Match 3 Team Member and Family Assistance Program (EAP) 3 Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays 3 Employee Recognition Program with Rewards (RAVE).
Application Deadline:
12/22/2026
12/22/2026
Role Designation
Ardent Mills is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.This role follows a hybrid work arrangement and will be basedinthe assigned work location. The successful candidate will be expected to work in person from theirassigned office location two days per week (Tuesday and Wednesday), except when traveling for business.
Recruitment Fraud Disclaimer:
At Ardent Mills, the security of our employees and candidates is a priority. We will never request sensitive information such as your bank account information, social security number, or other non-publicly available information during the application and interview process. If someone asks you for sensitive information, we strongly advise that you assume that individual is not affiliated with Ardent Mills. Some things to watch out for:
Slightly altered or unprofessional email addresses. Ardent Mills Recruitment team only corresponds from email addresses with the domain first.last.talent@ardentmills.com or first.last@ardentmills.com.
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