Sr. Financial Analyst, NA Sales

 

 

 

Position Title: Sr. Financial Analyst, NA Sales 

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Position Location: Oakbrook Terrace 

Requisition ID: 26861 

 

 

 

For us, for family!

 

We know the importance that food plays in people's lives – the power it has to bring people, families and communities together. Our purpose is to bring enjoyment to people’s lives through great tasting food, in a way that reflects our values. 

Our Senior Financial Analyst is a key player within the North American Sales Finance team, supporting and partnering with the Sales and related teams to profitably grow the businesses.

 

The primary responsibility is to bring strong financial and general business acumen and add value with a customer-centric focus. The role includes:

 

• Thoroughly understanding key customers’ operations and how it impacts McCain’s current profitability and future growth opportunities;
• Comprehensive Trade Spend management for all customers (accruals, analysis and reporting);
• Supporting the Demand Planning cycle from a top-down (Targets and Forecasts) and bottoms-up (Sales feedback) perspective;
• Contributing to enhancing internal systems and processes and enable faster and higher-quality decision-making for Senior Leaders;
• Providing various ad-hoc data extraction, consolidation, re-organization and analysis to help the business understand trends, and assess customers and products from a ‘Volume-Price-Mix’ context;
• ‘Stakeholder’ and ‘Ownership’ mentality is a must; you must feel that you are a major stakeholder in the business and ‘own’ the numbers (alongside your counterparts). High-quality work is expected; you should be proud of the work that you do for the business as you’ll be a key player in the team

 

 

 This role will be based in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.

 

 

How You’ll Add Value:

 

• Act as financial business partner to Sales and related teams supporting Customer and Product profitability via Sales, Trade and Cost-of-Goods-Sold analytics
• Contribute to improving sales forecast and proposing actions to mitigate trade related risks and maximize growth and profit opportunities
• Drive research and analysis of key product drivers, trends and performance indicators
• Support financial information reporting to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for business-critical decision making
• Build strong working relationships with business partners across the organization
• Work on other assigned priorities and contribute to organizational development of the North American finance organization in support of our North American businesses  

 

About You:

• Bachelor Degree required (Business, Finance, or Accounting)
• 3+ years of work experience in finance, business, or accounting
• Understanding of accounting and finance practices
• Strong results- and action-oriented mindset
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with a sense of urgency 
• Natural collaboration skills
• Agility in being able to work with different teams, particularly Sales and Marketing, in addition to Finance counterparts and other functions as required

 

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace.  As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. 
 
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
 
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Job Family: Finance      
Division: NA Finance 
Department: ​Finance Direct Sales NA ​
Location(s): US - United States of America : Illinois : Chicago || US - United States of America : Illinois : Lisle || US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace 

Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.