Financial Planning & Analysis Manager - Forsyth, MO

Job Description

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager - Forsyth, MO 
ADM – Deerland Probiotics & Enzymes

Nature and Scope:

• The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager Deerland (Health & Wellness, Nutrition) is responsible to provide financial and business support for the business execution, forecasting and budgeting processes, financial analysis, performance management, and insightful information to the senior management for a global and/or specific region.  
• Health & Wellness is a fast-growing division focused on science-based functional ingredients for Humans, PET and animals primarily focused on microbiome modulation. H&W started in 2017 from a combination of ADM legacy and acquired business in different parts of the globe. H&W products are sold as single ingredients and finished formats as part of customer’s solution to direct to consumer (B2C). 
• The ideal candidate must be able to leverage their finance skills and experience to effectively partner with and support business leadership in a fast-growth environment. The FP&A Manager will be primarily focused on global Deerland business (largest H&W acquisition), but also support other H&W businesses and will report to the Global Finance Lead for Deerland.  

• Coordinate preparation and reporting of annual plan, monthly forecasts, key performance measures, and performance reporting to BU Leaders and BU finance leaders at regional and/or global levels.  
• Partner across BU Leaders and finance organization to support key initiatives and driving actions that improves business unit performance.  
• Participate and demonstrate leadership in cross-functional efforts within Finance to continually improve reporting, forecasting, planning, and profitability analysis.   
• Develop and present financial results, projections, manufacturing cost analytics and ad hoc analysis requests to senior management. 
• Actively seek for efficiency and cost improvements in all areas. 
• Ability to work in a fast-growing environment and interact with teams from both legacy Deerland entities and other H&W businesses.  
• Work closely with Controlling colleagues to design and implement process changes to improve the relevance and insightfulness of information available to management. 
• Provide support on capital investments and strong collaboration with Commercial, Operations and Finance areas. 
• Ability to influence others within a matrix environment including senior management 
• Focus on execution of the operational plan

• A bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, accounting, or economics
• Preferred – MBA
• Minimum 7-10 years of experience in a similar position in large multinationals close to operations, manufacturing, logistics and distribution operations, international or global exposure and breadth of experience, experience in processing businesses.
• Experience working in an organization with centralized services functions of global centers of expertise.
• Detailed knowledge of general accounting principles, practices, policies, and procedures.
• Solid understanding of month-end financial closing process.

Required Skills:

• Ability to work in a challenging environment with multiple, changing and competing priorities. 
• Effective oral and written communication skills as well as ability to work with various levels of office and operational contacts; good presentation with an ability to communicate clearly. 
• Results and continuous improvement oriented; ability to drive initiatives and lead changes. 
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive and pragmatic approach; willingness to roll-up sleeves and make things happen; strong follow skills through and detail oriented. 
• Project management experience managing multiple projects at one time. 
• Positive, ‘can do’ hands on attitude with good influencing and stakeholder management skills 
• Advance knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint - Attention to detail required. 
• Strong organization and time management skills and ability to handle multiple deliverables and meet tight deadlines. 
• Ability to balance team and individual responsibilities and contribute to building a positive team environment.. 
• Ability to travel as necessary. 

• Executives, Leaders in H&W, and all Deerland locations, FP&A peers, Global Commercial team, Customer Service

• Customers, associations, vendors, sales agents, and auditors