Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s protein and salt business, where we provide wholesome, high-quality food products to a wide range of customers, from foodservice operators and grocery stores to manufacturers and exporters.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Plant Finance Senior Analyst will apply in depth knowledge to provide financial decision support and insight as the finance business partner to both management and operational teams for complex facilities. In this role, you will work closely with various stakeholders to ensure results are timely, qualitative, analyzed and understood. You will provide essential partnership in the business decision process and continuously improve the financial processes.
Key Accountabilities
- Provide finance business partnership for management teams by understanding and supporting strategic business priorities, challenges and impacts within the assigned plants.
- Evaluate and measure relevant cost drivers to manage manufacturing costs and plant performance to drive value creation and preservation.
- Develop and maintain relationships with business leadership and business teams.
- Foster continuous improvement in the finance team, challenge the status quo and play a leading role in increasing effectiveness and efficiency of our broader finance team.
- Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Own end to end processes of budgeting and forecasting for a group of 10 plants.
- Develop an automated reporting tool through Tableau/Power BI
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of manufacturing cost drivers
- Experience with variance analysis statistical tools
- Minimum of four years of related work experience
- Experience building reports in business intelligence technologies, either Tableau or PowerBI
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- In depth knowledge of cost accounting methodologies and processes.
- Experience working as a financial analyst in a manufacturing environment.
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