Full Job Description
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 function's 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 company's 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
• Bachelor's 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