McCormick & Company, Inc., a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry, is seeking a full-time Sr Financial Analyst on our Walmart Team. This new hire will work either in our Global Headquarters, located in Hunt Valley, MD OR our field office in Rogers, AR. The Sr Financial Analyst will report to a Finance Manager. 

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor with approximately 13,000 employees worldwide. As a Fortune 500 company with over $5 billion in annual sales across 160 countries and territories, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce, retail,food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Stubb's, OLD BAY, Lawry's, Zatarain's, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden. Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. Our Purpose is "To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor and our Vision is "A World United by Flavor—where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand."

As a company recognized for its exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs, and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and vacations.

POSITION OVERVIEW

This position is the primary financial partner of a Regional Vice President (RVP) of Sales and the Region’s Sales team. The position helps set, implement and support the strategic plan for the assigned Sales team through the development of the annual strategic and operating plan. It also provides leadership and expertise regarding profitability, utilization of financial measures, spending control and optimization.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide leadership and financial training to all team members regarding customer and product profitability, trade spend optimization and TPM enhancements/rollouts.
• Develop and prepare volume/trade forecast on a monthly/annual basis, assess risks and opportunities and proactively develop plans to minimize exposure and maximize results.
• Lead monthly/quarterly business reviews and communicate trade budgets and strategies to senior management, finance and marketing.
• Develop, document and ensure adequate controls exist for the trade spending process including monitoring of TPM forecast accruals, planned spending and amounts available for planning for all customers in the region.
• In addition to working alongside the RVP, will work closely with Sales Planning, Revenue Management, Customer Business Managers, and Sales Directors on national promotional plans to address competitive pressures and regional opportunities, including measurement and tracking of incremental sales programs and to provide region perspective during the national promotional planning process.
• Interpreting and analyzing customer specific requests from the sales field and partnering to develop financial P&Ls, analytics, scenarios, and ROI metrics to allow for fact-based decision making related to customer requests. Supporting analytics can vary with request but can include, customer P&Ls, customer segmentation, customer ranking, profitability analysis, pricing impacts, and potentially ROM impacts.
• Effectively communicating and presenting customer specific requests to various levels of leadership for approval, including the financial impact and portability analysis of the requests.
• Providing insight and direction in the development of customer contracts, pricing and deal structures.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related field.
• 5 years of experience in accounting / financial analysis.
• Must have an in-depth understanding of financial analysis techniques and the ability to work effectively across multiple functions of the organization.
• Strong process orientation and ability to bridge financial analysis to sales processes, providing actionable insights with meaningful recommendations.
• Ability to work independently and use sound judgment.
• Sales finance and/or marketing finance experience including customer plans, customer contracts, trade funds and/or IRI data.
• CPG Experience with Wal-Mart and/or Sam’s Club, preferred.
• Effective planning and organizational skills, very strong demonstrated analytical and problem- solving skills and strong Excel (financial modeling), Word and Power Point abilities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to present to senior management.
• Location: Hunt Valley, US or Rogers, AR.
  • Candidate should have the ability to travel up to several days per Quarter

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McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.