Position: Financial Analyst 

Department: Finance

Reports To: VP Finance

Location: Irwindale, CA

Salary: 80-100K 

Groupe Bonduelle is a company that is making a positive impact
Groupe Bonduelle is the world leader in ready-to-use plant-rich food. By joining our company you will have an opportunity to make a positive and sustainable impact on yourself, others and the planet. You will play an active part in our mission to inspire the transition toward a plant-rich diet to contribute to people's well-being and planet health.

Groupe Bonduelle Fresh Americas is the U.S. business unit of France based Groupe Bonduelle (BON.PA). We are the first business unit of Groupe Bonduelle to become a Certified B Corporation. We operate four processing facilities throughout the U.S. and employ nearly 3,000 Associates who focus on producing and bringing to market fresh vegetable products, prepared salads and plant-based meal solutions.

Groupe Bonduelle is a 170 year old French family-owned company that has been at the forefront of plant rich food innovations since 1853. Our ready-to-use plant-rich food products are grown on 173,000 acres by our grower partners and marketed in nearly 100 countries. The company currently employees more than 12,000 Associates globally.

Join us at Bonduelle Fresh Americas for an opportunity to advance your career in a culture that places people first. As a valued member of our company, you will have the opportunity to support our environmental and social initiatives to drive progress against our corporate social responsibility and B Corp certification ambitions.

At Bonduelle Fresh Americas, we make contributing to a better future through plant-based food our top priority.

Responsibilities:

Procurement:

• Act as an independent, objective, fact-based business partner to Procurement and Warehouse teams
• Participate in weekly meetings with business partners on relevant upcoming collaborative work, deadlines, and updates.
• Track and review procurement initiatives to ensure the team is delivering the target savings. Review the financial validity of procurement savings initiatives.
• Assist the teams with key initiatives to drive positive contribution to the financial health of BFA by providing spend/volume or other related supplier/category analysis.
• Research anomaly spend, cost trends for driving suppliers to identify opportunities and risk.
• Perform mid-month review of PPV and work with accounting to understand postings and resolve discrepancies.
• Monitor Medius deviations to catch potential price and invoice anomalies.
• Review periods end close and deliver accurate, insightful and timely reporting and analysis of procurement performance and market evolution.
• Track and monitor inflationary movement, cost evolution, and ordering shifts correlated to PPV fluctuation.
• Support finance team with details on market pricing movement that can impact profitability.
• Evaluate obsolescence and overage of inventory, through ordering patterns.
• Collate month end close data into deck for ELT team monthly review.
• Quarterly financial forecast (LE aka Latest Estimate) Collaborative ~3 week process to update spend and quantity projections for remainder of the fiscal year.
• Cost Movement Evaluation & Catalog Upload Collaborate with business partners to log and identify impact of the cost evolution with our suppliers to the business. On and off during the month.
• Market Evolution (quarterly review) Spend reporting for a select group of customers, projecting spend, inflation and productivity details, risks, and opportunities.
• Transition reporting into BI system for ease of use and access to team.
• Maintain strong end to end internal controls of procure to pay process.
• Understand vendor and category scope and spend as well as market evolution production.

Warehouse:

• Participate in a weekly warehouse KPI review call.
• Ensure any $ KPI measures are anchored to the financial plan (be it Budget or LE).
• D&D analysis participates in weekly calls, drive action oriented follow up.
• Review period end close (general ledger), work with accounting to understand postings and resolve discrepancies.
• Analyses and commentary on freight PPV address root cause.
• Analyses and commentary on warehouse cost center (Act vs. Bud and vs. PY).
• Develop and keep updated Network-wide warehouse model.
• Pallet utilization by site, by type (refrig, ambient, frozen, etc.).
• Working with the Director of Warehousing, benchmark staffing levels across sites, and align on optimal staffing structure.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree.
• 3-6 Years of Experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Other skills, systems experience, competencies (results oriented…), computer abilities
• Ability to work well in a team environment and collaborate up and down the organization
• A proven track record of results with a bias for action
• A passion for learning and a craving to work in a fun culture