Sr Financial Analyst ESG

Title: Sr Financial Analyst ESG

               

Location: Kennewick, WA

               

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

               

Lamb Weston is searching for an experienced Senior Financial Analyst – ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) who will define, capture, analyze, and report global ESG related financial impacts. This position will support Lamb Weston’s ESG program by engaging in a variety of internal processes including complex sustainability metrics, data analytics and reporting, financial risk mitigation, carbon regulation compliance strategy, cross functional collaboration with other ESG KPI owners, and supporting Lamb Weston’s ESG strategy execution. This position is also the primary liaison between ESG, cross functional ESG resources, and Finance functions ensuring connectivity with proper teams for efficient and accurate workstreams.

Responsibilities include financial assessment of company-wide project work (strategic, agriculture, capital, non-capital, etc.), energy transition impacts (cost to implement, cost for inaction or delayed action), resource use and material reduction work, and regulatory compliance and non-compliance. This role will deliver on various internal reporting efforts to ensure Lamb Weston’s information is communicated accurately and in a timely manner. This role will also engage in financial risk mitigation strategy development, capital program management, grants and incentives, and externally reported metrics

Job Description

• Support and aid in development of ESG and Sustainability initiatives and programs
• Define, implement, and track progress on ESG related metrics, goals, and performance measures including financial and non-financial performance
• Monitor and provide insight on regulatory body requirements and impacts of compliance and/or non-compliance
• Advise financial risk mitigation tactics to ensure compliance with carbon regulation while balancing fiscal responsibility.
• Assist ESG and Global Engineering as Finance lead to secure alternate project funding opportunities including grants, incentives, and other strategic projects.
• Review company-wide projects impacting ESG metrics to determine financial impacts
• Develop true cost models for key natural resources like water, energy, and land.
• Collaborate with Lamb Weston ESG Team Members as well as key internal customers, including Global Engineering, , Procurement, Manufacturing, Ag Services, Capital Management, and Corporate Finance groups
• Collaborate with other ESG KPI owners to design and manage global ESG dashboards and reports
• Assist in the consolidation of the Supply Chain monthly business review reporting
• Support other special projects and ad hoc financial analysis and reporting as requested

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years general business and financial experience, with preferred experience in Supply Chain Finance, Supply Chain, or ESG
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field
• Understanding of ESG strategies metrics and reporting
• Experience working within carbon regulation and compliance pathways and/or grant programs preferred
• Demonstrate ability to self-motivate and work under limited supervision in a fast-paced environment, ability to deal with ambiguity, change and a dynamic business environment
• Comfortable working in an evolving field where processes and procedures will need to be defined
• Ability to analyze and assimi